Well good news on the car, sorta.
It's not the head gasket *whee* it's the heater hoses coming apart at the ends :P
Still the hoses cost about $250 to replace instead of $500-$700 for the head gasket

Well tomorrow my brother leaves for Kansas en route to Germany where he's to be stationed for the next 1+ years. He's excited of course and not listening to Dad's advice *grins*

On the other hand, my Volvo's head gasket looks to have a leak in it. *sighs* I love that car but it's getting to be so expensive to maintain.

Just applied for a summer job I hope to get. It's a hardware support position at one of the less local community colleges, I'd be making sure the equipment is running, replacing it at times, that kind of stuff. Nice and easy, pays $11/hr. Only downsides are the distance (30+ min drive each way) and the competativeness, they've been inundated with ( Read more... )

Eventful week...
Two significant deaths, Easter, Anizona, sheesh it just all had to happen in the last 7 days
Anizona went well, too well with the staff having to turn away a lot of people that didn't prereg. I got drafted in to Tech for next year.. *shrugs* Should be interesting

Cr...Chromium
You scored 29 Mass, 20 Electronegativity, 53 Metal, and 60 Radioactivity! Oooohaaaaah.... shiny! You probably have an incredibly stable and well-maintained group of friends... that probably also don't get out much either. You're not one to get bogged down by a problem. Of course, I'm basing this upon Chromium's ultra-low water- ( Read more... )

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Some people are just plain idiots.
http://www.livejournal.com/users/soappuppy/136014.html

Was brosing around Slashdot today (at work of course) and I came across a mention of this Java IDE called Eclipse. I was using JCreator until recently but it's mainly a glorified text editor. It does some things like code completion, expansion of code blocks, automatic pretty-printing and the like, but was missing some major things. Namely a good ( Read more... )

So electricity is fun to watch in a safe way. Thus I'd like to coin a new phrase, "When planning for a spectacular failure, don't forget to include the camera"

http://www.wiseguysynth.com/larry/day.htm