Got my stereo up and running again. Had to pull out the old homemade power supply and car amp. A 3100 watt variable autotransformer is probably a bit much to run an 80 watt amp, but hey, it was free ( Read more... )

A violin that plays itself! http://www.playerviolin.com/description.htm

At $12,500 on Amazon, probably won't be a huge seller, though.

So I was thinking that maybe when I fill out those personality things for dating sites that maybe my responses are toward what I see as the ideal me. And, that I think I've changed some in the past year or so. So I filled out the eharmony personality profile again, just to see what the results would be. Here's the result ( Read more... )

That was exciting ( Read more... )

Since I got my house completely taken care of, I spent a couple weeks doing pretty much nothing. Which was nice. Played Civilization a lot. Since I always win that game by building the space ship (since I'm a pretty conservative, defensive player) I turned that option off to force myself to try to kill everyone else. I'm not going to kill them ( Read more... )

Don't know that I've ever been that motivated before.... got the *entire* house cleaned in one day. By myself. Only took 11 hours ( Read more... )

So I didn't get much work done yesterday. My allergies were really bad, so I took some Benedryl, and then I was useless the rest of the day. I wish the weather would get back to normal fall weather so we'd get some frost and kill off all the damn weeds ( Read more... )

Well, the roof is done, and now I'm broke. I'll be paying on that for many months. Oh boy ( Read more... )

I'm now 5 days and $9100 into a 3-day, $6000 roofing project on my house.

I think I'm going to build my next house, so I'll know it isn't all jury-rigged like this one was.

I had had the thought of selling this place instead of roofing it; now I really wish I had.

Played Myst (the original) last night. That was fun.

The guys are coming this weekend to do the roof on my house. That outta be, um, fun too, I guess. And expensive.