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Friday, January 26, 2007
Schrodinger's Bath
Oh, sweet Christmas...
You kind of have to have a mean streak to enjoy this, so this should be perfect for a lot of you.
Automated Cat Bath.
Thanks to Jamie for the link.
You kind of have to have a mean streak to enjoy this, so this should be perfect for a lot of you.
Automated Cat Bath.
Thanks to Jamie for the link.
Titles are hard
Huh
Apparently, there used to be Love Boat action figures.
I have a new life quest. I will own an Isaac action figure. Oh, yes. I will.
Blogging
So I had dinner with Pat, Jeff and Keora this evening.
1) Polvo's is good, but it's kind of weird that it's still such a huge hipster hang-out. If it's about being seen, who wants to be seen cramming their face with moderately priced enchiladas? La Reyna, half a black down was kind of empty, as was El Mercado, another block down. Sure, those places aren't quite as good (especially after I discovered the Burrito Gigante [translation: Giant Burrito]), but they also has inside seating.
I will never understand this city and it's celebration of seemingly random restaurants. This includes the Olive Garden on S. Lamar.
2) Pat is against blogging. Or at least he thinks it's pretty silly. I can support that. Heck, half the time I have no idea what I'm going to say when I start writing, and suddenly I'm two pages into some inane monologue about how I hung shelves in the garage.
The whole blogging thing is NOT something you can explain to someone, or convince them is a good idea, if they're already pretty much convinced you shouldn't be doing it, anyway. Like scrapbooking. Or brushing your teeth.
Pat sort of kidded about starting his own blog, which, he said he would fill with "all my interests that nobody I know cares about". But when pushed, he eluded the question. All the more mysterious.
He did ask me discuss here either the cover-up of surrounding the death of 60+ birds on Congress Avenue a week or so ago. Now they're saying it was cold weather and parasites, but, I am told, I am to begin to say this is obviously NOT true, and there's something sinister at work.
or else I am supposed to speak in praise of "The Day After Tomorrow".
I forget.
Shoemaker, here's that blog I mentioned: Lady, That's My Skull
Shelves
So I've long had a theory that when I finally finish with the garage, which I've never really unpacked, I would get a job within a week. This has gone from a lingering suspicion to a bit of fatalistic thinking I've decided to take the lead on.
I've delayed and delayed putting the garage together, mostly because the garage is cold. And lonely. And there are spiders.
Yesterday I finally went to Lowe's and bought my melanite shelves, brackets and other assorted doo-dads. Now, an oddity of our garage is that it's exactly big enough to accomodate two cars, but not a lot of space for other stuff, such as lawnmowers. In fact, most of my neighbors have at least one car in the drive-way to accomodate their junk.
The icy weather last week reminded me that if we're hit with ice again, and I DO have to go to work or whatever, I'm going to go out in the rain or ice to get to my car. SO... Luckily our garage is really tall inside (our house sits on an incline). So I'm putting all the shelves up really high.
Not a lot of quick access with stuff sitting that high up, so items finding a home up there include things like Christmas Trees, etc... that we can afford to forget about most of the time.
I am very proud of how handy I've been today. But I also have a long way to go (maybe another two days in the garage) before I'm done.
Then, voila, I should have a job waiting for me next week.
Except that I still haven't finished organizing our books upstairs. That could be a project...
Apparently, there used to be Love Boat action figures.
I have a new life quest. I will own an Isaac action figure. Oh, yes. I will.
Blogging
So I had dinner with Pat, Jeff and Keora this evening.
1) Polvo's is good, but it's kind of weird that it's still such a huge hipster hang-out. If it's about being seen, who wants to be seen cramming their face with moderately priced enchiladas? La Reyna, half a black down was kind of empty, as was El Mercado, another block down. Sure, those places aren't quite as good (especially after I discovered the Burrito Gigante [translation: Giant Burrito]), but they also has inside seating.
I will never understand this city and it's celebration of seemingly random restaurants. This includes the Olive Garden on S. Lamar.
2) Pat is against blogging. Or at least he thinks it's pretty silly. I can support that. Heck, half the time I have no idea what I'm going to say when I start writing, and suddenly I'm two pages into some inane monologue about how I hung shelves in the garage.
The whole blogging thing is NOT something you can explain to someone, or convince them is a good idea, if they're already pretty much convinced you shouldn't be doing it, anyway. Like scrapbooking. Or brushing your teeth.
Pat sort of kidded about starting his own blog, which, he said he would fill with "all my interests that nobody I know cares about". But when pushed, he eluded the question. All the more mysterious.
He did ask me discuss here either the cover-up of surrounding the death of 60+ birds on Congress Avenue a week or so ago. Now they're saying it was cold weather and parasites, but, I am told, I am to begin to say this is obviously NOT true, and there's something sinister at work.
or else I am supposed to speak in praise of "The Day After Tomorrow".
I forget.
Shoemaker, here's that blog I mentioned: Lady, That's My Skull
Shelves
So I've long had a theory that when I finally finish with the garage, which I've never really unpacked, I would get a job within a week. This has gone from a lingering suspicion to a bit of fatalistic thinking I've decided to take the lead on.
I've delayed and delayed putting the garage together, mostly because the garage is cold. And lonely. And there are spiders.
Yesterday I finally went to Lowe's and bought my melanite shelves, brackets and other assorted doo-dads. Now, an oddity of our garage is that it's exactly big enough to accomodate two cars, but not a lot of space for other stuff, such as lawnmowers. In fact, most of my neighbors have at least one car in the drive-way to accomodate their junk.
The icy weather last week reminded me that if we're hit with ice again, and I DO have to go to work or whatever, I'm going to go out in the rain or ice to get to my car. SO... Luckily our garage is really tall inside (our house sits on an incline). So I'm putting all the shelves up really high.
Not a lot of quick access with stuff sitting that high up, so items finding a home up there include things like Christmas Trees, etc... that we can afford to forget about most of the time.
I am very proud of how handy I've been today. But I also have a long way to go (maybe another two days in the garage) before I'm done.
Then, voila, I should have a job waiting for me next week.
Except that I still haven't finished organizing our books upstairs. That could be a project...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007
2004th Post
Hey, Leaguers!
Hope everyone is doing well.
Things are slow on the home front. Jamie's off one of her meds, and it's got her feeling a bit lowly until her body gets used to not having that particular med (withdrawal isn't as much fun as they made it look in "Trainspotting"). So we've mostly been sticking to the house and trying not to think too much about what kind of lousy weather we've been stuck with.
Really, I'm enjoying the rain and cold. After all, PHX has many things, but weather is not one of them. It's mostly the dogs who are making me feel bad. Poor doggies have been stuck inside for days.
Books
I finally finished "In Cold Blood", a book I started some time ago. I know this because I have one of Jamie's business cards which reads "Human Code" as a place holder. I loved the book, but found it relentlessly depressing, so I would put it down for years at a time, and then have to start over. That, and I always read books in bits and spurts, and I started this one again right after we moved here, so... yeah.
Next up is "The March" which I received for Christmas. I also have "The Time Traveller's Wife" which JimD, Steven and Lauren all recommended to me, although Lauren said "It's a little pulpier than I thought it would be." Luckily, The League lives for pulp, so let's hope Lauren's reveal rings true.
Also, I'm reading a metric ton of comics. I just wish the Superman books were back on schedule.
THANK YOU'S
I wanted to say thanks to all Leaguers. I enjoyed writing my 2000th post hoo-hah, but it was quite nice to get so many comments.
Hopefully we'll still be doing this in a few years, and we'll see where we are on posts at that time.
NetFlix
I'm back in.
Leaguer OH e-mailed me to ask my opinion of NetFlix, and it got me thinking about their service.
We'll see what happens this time, but a few things contributed to my decision
1- Talking in movies. There's less distracting talking at my house.
2- At $14.99 a month, rather than $16 for two people to hit the theater, I'm practically making money
3- My post office box is much closer here than in PHX, making the whole movie-by-mail thing less daunting.
4- I am now willing to manage my NetFlix queue to balance the "quality" movies with the very stupid. My first two movies? "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Manos: The Hands of Fate"
5- I no longer have forty movie channels. In Phoenix, we would subscribe to whole packages of movie channels. Couple that with the DVR, and I never really felt like I was at a loss for a movie to watch.
6- I do like movies. I have a degree to prove it.
Hope everyone is doing well.
Things are slow on the home front. Jamie's off one of her meds, and it's got her feeling a bit lowly until her body gets used to not having that particular med (withdrawal isn't as much fun as they made it look in "Trainspotting"). So we've mostly been sticking to the house and trying not to think too much about what kind of lousy weather we've been stuck with.
Really, I'm enjoying the rain and cold. After all, PHX has many things, but weather is not one of them. It's mostly the dogs who are making me feel bad. Poor doggies have been stuck inside for days.
Books
I finally finished "In Cold Blood", a book I started some time ago. I know this because I have one of Jamie's business cards which reads "Human Code" as a place holder. I loved the book, but found it relentlessly depressing, so I would put it down for years at a time, and then have to start over. That, and I always read books in bits and spurts, and I started this one again right after we moved here, so... yeah.
Next up is "The March" which I received for Christmas. I also have "The Time Traveller's Wife" which JimD, Steven and Lauren all recommended to me, although Lauren said "It's a little pulpier than I thought it would be." Luckily, The League lives for pulp, so let's hope Lauren's reveal rings true.
Also, I'm reading a metric ton of comics. I just wish the Superman books were back on schedule.
THANK YOU'S
I wanted to say thanks to all Leaguers. I enjoyed writing my 2000th post hoo-hah, but it was quite nice to get so many comments.
Hopefully we'll still be doing this in a few years, and we'll see where we are on posts at that time.
NetFlix
I'm back in.
Leaguer OH e-mailed me to ask my opinion of NetFlix, and it got me thinking about their service.
We'll see what happens this time, but a few things contributed to my decision
1- Talking in movies. There's less distracting talking at my house.
2- At $14.99 a month, rather than $16 for two people to hit the theater, I'm practically making money
3- My post office box is much closer here than in PHX, making the whole movie-by-mail thing less daunting.
4- I am now willing to manage my NetFlix queue to balance the "quality" movies with the very stupid. My first two movies? "The Grapes of Wrath" and "Manos: The Hands of Fate"
5- I no longer have forty movie channels. In Phoenix, we would subscribe to whole packages of movie channels. Couple that with the DVR, and I never really felt like I was at a loss for a movie to watch.
6- I do like movies. I have a degree to prove it.
Tuesday, January 23, 2007
Other Pictures
Ah, extra pictures. These are some extra pictures left over from the past several weeks.
The Bros. Steans enjoy some quality time during the Holidays.
Our loverly Christmas lights
Jamie enjoys our Christmas lights.
I pose with Dave the Somewhat Animated Christmas Deer.
Cousin John, his wife Julie, Mandy, Ellie Gamble
Elf Rami
Mandy, Ellie Gamble, Feral Andy
Mel.
Lucy in her lovely Christmas collar.
The Bros. Steans enjoy some quality time during the Holidays.
Our loverly Christmas lights
Jamie enjoys our Christmas lights.
I pose with Dave the Somewhat Animated Christmas Deer.
Cousin John, his wife Julie, Mandy, Ellie Gamble
Elf Rami
Mandy, Ellie Gamble, Feral Andy
Mel.
Lucy in her lovely Christmas collar.
Ice Day Flashback
Last week we were hit with some ice. Believing the gods were angry with us, The League was terrified. We cowered inside our home, and emerged to take only a few photos.
Mel zips around the front yard, enjoying the ice crunching uder his feet.
Icicles hung from the front of the house. I don't remember ever getting icicles like this before in Austin. The window on the left is the window to the Fortress.
Icilces in the backyard hanging from the porch. I kept one of these. It's in the freezer.
Ahhh... the firepit. The firepit filled with rain. And then the rain froze. And now it's melted, and it's gross, but the yard is all muddy, so I haven't cleaned it out. You can see icicles beneath the firepit.
Ah, the front yard. Yes, the front steps did ice up and become a deathtrap. As did the sidewalks.
Mel zips around the front yard, enjoying the ice crunching uder his feet.
Icicles hung from the front of the house. I don't remember ever getting icicles like this before in Austin. The window on the left is the window to the Fortress.
Icilces in the backyard hanging from the porch. I kept one of these. It's in the freezer.
Ahhh... the firepit. The firepit filled with rain. And then the rain froze. And now it's melted, and it's gross, but the yard is all muddy, so I haven't cleaned it out. You can see icicles beneath the firepit.
Ah, the front yard. Yes, the front steps did ice up and become a deathtrap. As did the sidewalks.
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