Tomorrow's the big day of the groundschool test. Erk ( Read more... )

I just called to schedule my Ground school written test...

Let the official freakout begin.

I was asked by another driver about this weekends driving events. Here's a reprint of what I found out (I didn't have everyone's current e mail address ( Read more... )

(Disclaimer: I didn't write this. Like others I have posted, I just thought it was interesting enough to repost. besides, I enjoyed the NASCAR reference. Maybe more beer would make the political thing go better ( Read more... )

The phrase "Beware of dog" is so old, its Latin equivalent -- cave canem -- has been found on signs in Roman ruins. The word "watchdog" isn't quite as old, but it has been around a long, long time. The first mention of it: by Shakespeare, in "The Tempest."

Remember the great water saga? It continues today ( Read more... )

This was posted by the guy who writes 8-bit theatre (nuklearpower.com), one of the webcomics I am hooked on (note the other is twolumps.net). At any rate, I found this 'editorial' particularly amusing today and as such have illegally reproduced it here...and yes, I do own the G1 DVD collection. I don't think I've ever actually WATCHED them all, ( Read more... )

I did manage to get to the Races this weekend. Amy took pity on me and accompanied me to the Saturday race. Unfortunately it was a small enough that there was no TV or radio broadcast, so the scanner was essentially useless. We briefly listened to one driver/pit crew until Amy got the brilliant idea of switching to her iPod. And it worked! ( Read more... )

Well, I was originally going to post some pix from our skydiving adventure, but as it turns out I can't figure out how to do it in LJ. The machine wants a website address to pull the pictures from. Maybe it doesn't want to storage on its server?? If I get ambitious I may post some on MySpace or Facebook instead. Maybe. I'm annoyed with my ( Read more... )

Allow me to relay bits of an early morning conversation ( Read more... )