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Sunday in Aiken

Sunday, July 13, 2003

Just another spectacular day in my home town. We (Donna, I, Fellow ABCers Chuck and Cindy) went for a 25 mile bicycle ride this morning. Got at it early to avoid the traffic and the heat. The sky was beautiful, in that religious cliched sort of way, sporadic big clouds covering the morning sun, but allowing streaks of sunshine through to illuminate the green fields. Just awesome.

The rest of the middle of the day was spent indoors in front of the computer. I finished up the mix for my upcoming CD swap. It is supposed to be “music that makes you hot. Music that makes you sweat. Music that turns you on.” I don’t know any of the music titles from those cheesy porn movies of my youth, so I made up a mix of songs that have the word summer in the title.

Tonight around 8 o’clock Donna wanted a top down drive in the Miata and being the accommodating guy I am, I agreed. After the first turn out of the neighborhood we knew we couldn’t go north, dark ugly storm clouds were brewing. I headed east and then south. After a 20 mile loop or so we headed back into town to stop at the store to get some odds and ends. As soon as we turned north we realized that all the while we were driving east and south those clouds we saw earlier had continued their relentless march south. We needed gas anyway so we ducked into the first station available to top up the tank and put the top up. We made it into the store before the rains came, but had to use the little emergency umbrella to get back to the car without getting entirely soaked. The drive home from the store was very similar to the drive home from work on Friday.

Purchased Today: 14.50 in gas
Money spent since 03/03/03: $874.13
Started down, went up, still up.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 144

Tagged: Miatatude

Mr. Fix-it Strikes Again

Saturday, July 12, 2003

Today was day two of my air-conditioning repair marathon. After the filter replacement, I’d walked around the house holding my hand near all the outlets to feel if we were getting cool air out of them. Found one, the one near the back wall of our bedroom, that was not really working. Damn, no wonder our bedroom has been warmer than normal for a while. Shown a flashlight down there and it looked like the ductwork had fallen off the register.

It figures it would have to be this one, as it is almost the furthest one from the little door into the crawl space under the house. I got on some old clothes, grabbed the flashlight and a roll of duct tape. Crawled around on my belly like a dog soldier creeping up on enemy lines and dodged other ducts and pipes like bullets and tracers to get to where I needed to be. The actual repair went pretty fast and smooth. Duct tape is a marvelous tool and I have used it for a hundred different things, but this was the first time I actually used it for its intended purpose.

Tagged: Rants

CD Mix Part Deaux

Saturday, July 12, 2003

Found another blogger that is running a CD swap. Ever since the demise of Crabwalk’s CD Mix of the Month earlier this year I have been jonesin’ for a free music swap, but am to lazy to actually run one (besides the list of regular readers here is too small.) I *have* swapped a couple discs with one semi-regular, Sinclair of Hello Mr. Mackenzie fame since then.

This one is not monthly, best I can tell this is the second in a sporadic series, but I have signed up to play Burn-It. If you want in, better hurry, sign-ups end Tuesday.

Purchased Today: Zero
Money spent since 03/03/03: $859.63
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 143

Tagged: Miatatude

It’s A Wonder That Any Air Got Through At All

Friday, July 11, 2003

Something, I’m not sure what, triggered my memory to change the filter in the central air conditioning unit today. I remembered that I hadn’t changed it in a while, a long while, but couldn’t remember exactly when. It was probably more than a year ago judging by how dirty that sucker was. Next month’s power bill will probably be 20% less…

Tagged: Rants

Stuck Being A Thousandaire

Thursday, July 10, 2003

Well, two winning tickets to the powerball game were sold, unfortunately neither was one of the 18 tickets we held for our group buy at work. Just to be sure I asked the fellow at work who was buying the tickets did he take a trip to Missouri or Pennsylvania to buy this week. He said no.

The jackpot for this coming Saturday is only $10 million, hardly worth the effort to go to the store and buy a ticket.

Tagged: Rants

How Does He Concentrate?

Wednesday, July 9, 2003

Sitting here blogging and watching my beloved Red Sox play the Blue Jays in a window in the upper right. The centerfield camera shows the angle that the pitcher gets as he is throwing to the plate. They are playing in Toronto and there are some seats at playing field level that must have their own waitress to get them their refreshments. I can’t help but think that must be distracting to have her walking back and forth delivering nachos and beers and whatnot back there while the he is winding up.

I know she is distracting me as she looks pretty good in my little fuzzy window.

Tagged: Rants

Double Stick Tape Failure

Wednesday, July 9, 2003

Well not the stickiness part of the tape, but the foam in the middle. A few weeks back I installed a 3rd brake light flasher that a fellow I work with is making. I used double stick tape to hold it in place in a spot in the top of the trunk. Today on the way home from work when I closed the trunk there was a loud rattle that I didn’t recognize. I opened it back up and there was my ABIA hanging by the wires. Sticky stuff still on the car and sticky stuff on the unit, just the foam had torn.

Going to remount it tonight using Velcro and epoxy. Epoxy one side of the Velcro to the ABIA and epoxy the other side to the cubby hole in the trunk. We’ll see if this will last longer than 2-1/2 months.

Purchased Today: Nuttin’
Money spent since 03/03/03: $859.63
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 139

Tagged: Miatatude
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"Ninety Percent Of Everything Is Crap"
Derived from a quote by science fiction author Theodore Sturgeon, who once said, "Sure, 90% of science fiction is crud. That's because 90% of everything is crud." Oddly, when Sturgeon's Law is cited, the final word is almost invariably changed to 'crap'.

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1) A cloudy morning walk around the East Salish Po 1) A cloudy morning walk around the East Salish Pond. 2) Saw this on the ground where I was standing: the blood of an endoparasitoid extraterrestrial creature?

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