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Today, I went to a neighborhood meeting about the possibility of installing speed humps on the street I live on. This was, for the most part, a pretty useful affair, but as was sure to happen, there was one person there being obtuse to a darned near malicious level. He suggested that a better solution would be a radar speed camera ( Read more... )

It's almost back to shirt-sleeve temperature in my office-- 58 degrees right now. It seemed like we were heading nicely in a springward direction, and I mentioned something of the sort to Amy... and got a text message from her after she got to Greenbelt Park saying it was spitting rain and snow. Kinda glad I decided to pass on that; a few hours in ( Read more... )

I wound up buying a car yesterday:


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The plan: For my birthday this year, I was finally gonna buy myself a new car. So I started doing test-drives in earnest: I figured that given two months, most of the dealerships I talked to would eventually get in something with a manual transmission, and if they had my contact information I could drive it. Even though I wasn't planning on pulling ( Read more... )

...which is fairly soon after the last one, so this one may be shorter ( Read more... )

...which I quite like. Fall's my favorite time of year-- college football, leaves turning colors, extra blankets on the bed, costumes at Halloween (and, the way I do it, at Dragon*Con as well), the time change back where I get an extra hour of sleep (one of my favorite holidays!), big feast in late November and the lead-up to Christmas after. Plus ( Read more... )

Seems that my livejournal account has been relegated to "stuff too big to fit in a Facebook status ( Read more... )

They were the folks who built those cool Red Planet pods (okay, most folks thought of 'em as Battletech pods, especially after the Tesla IIs didn't run Red Planet) at places like Dave & Busters ( Read more... )

So, one of the interesting things about one's wife being out on a six month hike is that one winds up with more free time than he remembered having when he was just a normal bachelor ( Read more... )