I went to bed and forgot to put my white bunny back in her cage. Remarkably, the entire living room was not destroyed this morning (although she had found her way to my games shelf ( Read more... )

Friday night: Prisoner came over, and goofed off for a while. We dug into the laptop I got through the “One Laptop Per Child” program and played the board game “Statego”. Jenn joined us, and we all headed down to First Saturday, where we found czarina69 and sclerotic_rings. I handed off the model skeleton to sclerotic_rings, who hinted that he’d do ( Read more... )

Has anyone planned on hitting First Saturday this weekend?

Spent the weekend with Jenn. Friday we vegg’d out to a Nova episode on quantum mechanics. We spent Saturday exploring McKinney Ave and trying a new Thai place with her singles group ( Read more... )

Monday: Attended Furry Happy Hour. Snuck out early to race home, and finish programming a simple stepper-motor driver I had been working on for the past couple of days.

Tuesday: Attended robot club night (it was my turn to bring a box of fried chicken). We have an old robot arm manufactured back in the 80’s for educational purposes. While it ( Read more... )

While channel surfing the other night, I caught a few minutes of a rerun of “Friends”. I don’t think I have ever actually watched a full episode of this show. Seeing the few minutes of it that I did reminded me why I never watched it: These people were mind-bogglingly shallow and self-centered ( Read more... )

Took my first welding class last night. Actually, this is not my first time to do this sort of thing. A couple of summers ago, I took a “welding and forging for artists” class at a community college. I got plenty of hands-on time, but not as much technical insight as I would have liked. This one is taught at a Garland area high-school, but a guy ( Read more... )

I suppose I shouldn’t complain, as according to my LJ notes, it’s been about a year since I’ve been ill enough to miss work. Still, it is frustrating when I think of all the things I could have accomplished. Lets back up a few days.

Friday: Snuck out of work early, and went to Jenn’s place for dinner. She fixed us an awesome one-pot meal of ( Read more... )

Yup...things are back to normal, save for the lack of postings and e-mail. Anyone wanna post something? Anything?

Did I mention I used to run security at a small Furry con? Trust me. It sounds a lot more impressive than it really is. Oddly enough, it was more rewarding than running the outdoor robotics contest. Below are some of the more succesfull policys I’ve implemented.

Put the conduct rules in writing. (Actually, I’d recommend putting pretty much ( Read more... )