Mmmmm…
June 29th, 2009
Chocolate "no bake" cookies! Okay, I know, they kinda look like turds
laying there…. But trust…
mmmmmmm
Dead and dead…
June 25th, 2009
1. Farah Fawcett.
2. Michael Jackson.
(!!!)
So I’m not gonna say much other than damn, what a crap day this turned out to be…
1. Iconic:
What man did not have this poster or image somewhere, straight or gay!?
2. THE Pop Star:
Really…the 80’s just died. (vid has music only, but I think one of my faves ever)
I know who is gonna comment — fire away! 
(slight inside joke)
Mom, you were right…
June 21st, 2009
That was fast…Sam says "thanks!"
What was that…around 5 minutes maybe? 
Toilet Transplant
June 3rd, 2009
Why I’m writing about this I’m not entirely sure, other than it’s really the little “wins” that are quite satisfying.
My main think tank was on the fritz. It was getting super bad — The water would keep running after the flush. bad bad. Couldn’t stop it, no matter how much handle jiggling. This is a major trauma for the household. Our master eliminator is just not working right.
So I donned gloves and went in for some exploratory surgery. Come to find out it was the rubber thingy at the bottom that opens and closes when you use the handle and normally closes the tank to let it fill after a flush — It about disintegrated when I took it off of the whatzit.
So I went to the other can in the bedroom, which I never use, turned off the water, extracted it’s rubber thingy, which was still in good shape, and transplanted said thingy to the main, yet now lobotomized crapper.
Viola!!!
I can now poop in peace.
The menu of the night
June 2nd, 2009
I had the second to last burger tonight… very appropriate for my day
today… don’t even ask…!!
Is there a joy simpler?
May 28th, 2009
Is there a joy simpler than opening a box of pristine, untouched
crayons? (the big pack with sharpener, of course!).
Progress
May 17th, 2009
You know you are feeling better when your fridge disgusts you and you
finally command yourself to do some Spring cleaning….
Doctor visit of the now
May 8th, 2009
They make everyone wear masks at the doctor office these days…oink
oink!
Hangin’ with Mosaic, Mail & Main
April 25th, 2009
Waiting for a more modern day server project of mine to do it’s thing, I decided to play around with Virtual PC and see how old I could go back in PC time. Of course there is always DOS, but that installs fairly easily — although it took me a minute to figure out how to make MSCDEX to work in autoexec.bat & config.sys again!
I’ve previously run a Commodore 64 emulator, and that was nice, but without the software it wasn’t particularly interesting (Anyone remember GEOS?!)
No, the real fun was re-visiting those tried-and-true Windows versions I remember from College. So I whipped out my old CD drawer and what did I find –Windows for Workgroups 3.11! Wow. Now that is some old M$ crap. I remember it fondly — I even ran PageMaker and PhotoShop on it to complete my school projects! I dearly miss CorelDRAW! and wish for it back often.
We ran Windows 2.0 (!!) at Community College and PageMaker version 3.0. But that software is nowhere to be found, so thus I bring you my fun flashback of Windows…Even got the network running and Mosaic 1.0 connected to the Internet! And then there is “mail.” Not Exchange or Outlook. Just….”mail”
God, I’m such a complete dweeb…
Windows For Workgroups 3.11. Click for a bigger blast of the past
I know a spy
April 23rd, 2009
I have a secret…I know a spy! Really. Okay, maybe not true “Cloak and Dagger” type stuff, but in an industrial way. I bump into Boeing’s “analyst” for Airbus all the time at my local watering hole. We talk aerospace and aviation shop talk. It’s like my dream come true.
We’re enjoying drinks right now…
Shhhh…mums the word. I have no other evidence to support my claim. But then again, if I told you more I’d have to kill you…
Link: July 18, 2009!
April 20th, 2009
Well, it’s finally here! Seattle has come out of the transportation Stone Age and we shall have a light rail system.
Huge online dust-up
April 18th, 2009
So my online hobby (virtual air traffic controlling — see www.seaartcc.net) just today had major kerfluffle…basically the entire staff of my center quit and accusations are flying everywhere. It’s quite fun drama to be an observer after being on the staff previously. It’s one of the most beaurocratic orgs I’ve worked with. Well, I guess our goal is to emulate air traffic control as in the FAA. In this regard I think we have it nailed
Rousing Easter domino throw-down
April 12th, 2009
Rousing Easter domino throw-down
Gameplay here is starting to get brutal..my dad just lost the lead by
one point. Next year I think I’ll stream the action live.
Ugly vacant lot
April 8th, 2009
My work view of the moment (and I was testing the upload capability on my phone — it works!)
OK, blog transfer complete
April 8th, 2009
Looks like I was able to successfully import all my blog posts from the other database — wheeeeee!
More info on that process later, for the geeks out there, now I have to redirect DNS…
Blog software, take 4…
April 3rd, 2009
Well, here I go at upgrading my blog for the fourth time, standby for minute-by-minute updates!
Southern Hospitality
March 11th, 2009
While in Atlanta I was able to spend time with my fine looking Southern cuzins Beth & Michelle! We had a great time and they took me to areas of Atlanta I would not otherwise have seen or known about:
Having a “FO” (Frosted Orange) and peach pie at Varisty, a drive-in dive and Atlanta tradition.
Had lunch here — was in the little “alternative” district of Atlanta (Little Five Points? — I forget already — They had good beer, though!). Was totally fun.