Sturgeon’s Law

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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Miles Per Gallon

Fuelly Fuelly

That Was Expected

The folks at Tay­lor Hyundai do a really nice lit­tle thing when ever you bring them your car in for ser­vice, before they give it back they vac­uum the inte­rior and wash the exte­rior. The Pur­ple Whale looked really good each time we walked by it on our 3 daily walks dur­ing breaks, but the 30% chance of rain pre­dicted for the CSRA today fell 100% on it later this afternoon.

Kitchen Before & After Photos

From Feb­ru­ary 2nd:
Here is our soon to be remod­eled kitchen. The cab­i­nets are orig­i­nal to the house. As is the yel­low tile counter top and back splash. The floor is cur­rently cov­ered in dark blue com­mer­cial grade car­pet and there is at least 2 lay­ers of vinyl under that, who knows what is fur­ther down. Cur­rently the dish­washer is the old fash­ioned man­ual kind.

If all goes accord­ing to plan in about a dozen days this will be an empty room, maybe even just a skele­ton. D-Day is Feb­ru­ary 11th.

Here is our newly remod­eled kitchen. The cab­i­nets are Shenan­doah Breck­en­ridge in Maple Spice. The counter top is Cale­do­nia gran­ite and the back splash is 3 x 6 white tile in a sub­way pat­tern. The floor is 12 x 12 light gray tile laid in a stag­gered pat­tern. The dish­washer is a GE Top Con­trol Dish­washer with Steam Cleaning.

If all goes accord­ing to plan we will never remodel another kitchen.

This morn­ing I washed off the Miata car cover to get it clean in the hopes I can sell it for a few bucks. I placed it on top of the Emperor to spray it off then left it on to dry. This after­noon I removed the cover and washed the car under­neath. Then I washed rinsed off the Sonata too.

Started down, went up, still up.
Miata Top Tran­si­tions since 10/24/08: 1219

Disappearing Dumpster

No Dumpster

For the first time in 61 days the Emperor could park in his Throne Room. It was sup­posed to be gone last Fri­day, then it was sup­posed to be yes­ter­day, so quite frankly we were sur­prised to find it actu­ally gone when we pulled into the dri­ve­way after work today. Even though pine pollen sea­son isn’t exactly over, the Miata got a wash­ing before being dri­ven into the garage.

We have been dri­ving the Miata for the last cou­ple weeks, so the Sonata has been just parked under the awning gath­er­ing a layer of pine pollen. To keep both sib­lings happy, I was going to wash the Pur­ple Whale too, but din­ner was nearly ready, so Donna insisted that I put the wash bucket away and after eat­ing we’d run the Sonata through Lu Lu’s, a local car wash. It felt like cheat­ing and it cost $10, but man that was easy.

Started up, went down, went up, still up.
Miata Top Tran­si­tions since 10/24/08: 1215

Just In Time…

…for pine pollen sea­son, I washed the Pur­ple Whale.

Shiny Sonata

Yes­ter­day after­noon I washed the Pur­ple Whale. It has been quite a while. I hope that I missed tag­ging a post some­where along the line or accord­ing to this blog the last time the Sonata got a bath was Octo­ber 2nd.

Today when we got home from work I waxed the Pur­ple Whale. It has been quite a while. Like never. In the one and three quar­ters years of it being a mem­ber of the fam­ily it has never been waxed.

Started down, went up, went down, still down.
Miata Top Tran­si­tions since 10/24/08: 1196

Team Car

Hop­ing to turn around their lack­lus­ter show­ing on the foot­ball field from the last two weeks, today I gave the Pur­ple Whales offi­cial team car a bath because every­one knows a clean car is a much hap­pier car. And a happy car just per­forms better.

Sunday in Aiken

A short bike 10 mile ride. Break­fast at DD. Gro­cery shop­ping at Kroger.

Lunch. Wash the Pur­ple Whale.

After­noon spent watch­ing the Weather Chan­nel and lis­ten­ing to the FRS on the inter­net. Which is more related than you think in that they are both like rub­ber­neck­ing at a car acci­dent on the Inter­state, hor­ri­ble to see, but you just can’t turn away.*

Evening spent blog­ging and surf­ing the web.

Try and reel in your jealousy.

*On a related note, I just got an email that offered MLB.TV on my Roku for the rest of the sea­son for a measly $10, so that if I actu­ally wanted to see that wreck…