Bought a 2000 Honda Civic. Walter mobile expired after I drove it full speed over a railroad crossing and the transmission busted. Now I've got the new car sitting next to the old one. How do I get rid of the old one? Do I just call some scrapheap and they take it? How does that work?

I was driving around last night and just decided to skip my destination and go for a long ways. Very good night for driving, and the Walter-mobile made it even better with the bonus bouncing and flashing of random dashboard lights, like "check engine", or "out of gas", or even "WTF? This is not a gar, it is full of bombs!". Oh, and by "Just ( Read more... )

I was listening to the radio on my drive home tonight, and I swear I heard a Painful Reminder track playing on 96.1. Radio time for Pynk & Co. Gratz!

So, this year, my company will finally retire microfiche as a standard of data storage. I am not even a little bit kidding ( Read more... )

These books are the equivalent of literary noodles. If you discover that you enjoy them there are about twelve thousand more just like the one that you enjoyed. You can read them forever and ever, and they are mostly alike ( Read more... )

My D&D campaign came to an end this week. It ran for about 2 years, having one 6 hour session a week. The PCs were Lucius, Vine, Kintin (sp?), Gungahr, Galvin, Crispin, Fain, Biggs, Gnormic, Karnacs, Marillion, Son Leto, Buddo and Allegrith. The players were Chad, Alan, Lizzie, Bryan, Tye, Emar. Good game all! (D&D continues, next game starts ( Read more... )

The tired you get after fencing for a while is very different from the tired you get after running for a while. Fencing demands very little actual movement, but an exceptionally sharp concentration. As the bouts drag on it becomes harder and harder to maintain that sense of focus, basically you run out of "give a damn". As a consequence, after ( Read more... )

Early Monday morning I was informed that my Grandmother had passed away. She was 81 years old and vibrant and alert to the last. She was playing Golf with Dad at Thanksgiving, got diagnosed with Cancer of the liver the week before Christmas. She spent Christmas with us, and I'll be forever grateful that I got to see her one last time ( Read more... )

I got a promotion (to a full developer position) and a raise! Yahoo!

We have to work 8-5 now....dang it!