Erik and I went up to Flagstaff and hiked up Mt. Humphreys. We stayed overnight and returned today ( Read more... )

I know I've made fun of this before, but it really is the cola wars that just sent me over the edge. Not hypodermics on the shore, China being under martial law, nor even homeless vets did it. Quite frankly, it took the cola wars ( Read more... )

As per request, a picture of the desk I built. 2x4 frame with steel corner brackets and 1/4 inch tempered hardboard top.


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I'm back in Arizona now, which, considering my luck with cars is a feat in and of itself. Susan was a very good girl the whole trip; I like it when the car gives no trouble. But that's not all that interesting to talk about, so I'm going to step into the time machine and go back to, I don't know, say, last Sunday. I drove the bawv up to Baton Rouge ( Read more... )

Plastic hose flange 2 outlet turned out to be defective and experienced catastrophic failure. One made of genuine german plastic is currently on order at my friendly local neighborhood vw dealer. Trust me, this is relevant ( Read more... )

Crazy things continue to happen. But first, I'm pretty sure that that thing on my arm last time was a series of 2nd degree burns. Damn if I could get a picture of it though. I went and burned the wrong arm. I can't hold the camera still enough in my left hand to get the picture to come out. After the picture, it got redder and blisterier, but now ( Read more... )

Last week was a good week. Spent not one, not two, but three evenings with the lovely Jennifer. However, proving once again that I am the Sultan of Lame, one of then involved multiple games of chess. Yep. Nerd over here. Put all of that St. Christopher Chess Team training to use. Or not. I'm still in green on Yahoo Chess (computer chess makes me ( Read more... )

So we all knew such a blistering update pace was unsustainable, but his one's still pretty close. Still on the third (see, I saved this story for dramatic effect [or I just forgot about it]). On Monday after my half day of work, but before I ordered a car part of uncertain name, I went to the army surplus store after my fruitless search for an auto ( Read more... )

Two updates in three days? Surely the apocalypse is upon us. Hung out with Jennifer on Saturday night after the power bill fiasco; became a whole lot less annoyed. Actually felt pretty good, so I'm going to call total mood reversal on that night. And I called SRP and went through their goofy computerized call routing thing and confirmed that I paid ( Read more... )

and now a collection of holy shit moments ( Read more... )