NASCAR Pizza

I’m not a fan of NASCAR, I believe until proven otherwise that NASCAR is to auto racing what the WWF is to wrestling. I’m not a fan Domino’s Pizza either preferring Papa John’s when I’m just to lazy to travel the 3 miles to a local pizzeria. But the two of them make a fine commercial, I just love the way the “pit crew” hop over the couch to “set” the table, nicely done folks.

I found a place where somebody hates this commercial, it is amazingly enough on a forum entitled, “Commercials I Hate.”

Weekend Warrior Legs

Back to work after a great weekend. It is not all bad, for one I needed to rest my achy weekend warrior leg muscles after the hike on Saturday and biking on Sunday. And two, it is a short week because we get Friday off because it is “Good Friday” so it is already Tuesday.

Purchased Today: zippo
Money spent since 03/03/03: $81.38
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 54

Men Are Such Beasts

Today we got all 4 of the Netflix movies in the mail due to the weekend before last’s movie marathon. So tonight we watched one of them, Playing Mona Lisa. Funny movie but the main attraction for me was watching Alicia Witt.

What is it about us men that makes us terrible that way? I am sitting on the couch enjoying a movie with the one I love, but I am thinking about being with Alicia. If you know the answer let me know.

Boy Was My Butt Sore

Good news is that today was as nice a day as yesterday, bad news is that the pine pollen is not finished. Man the car looks spiffy as heck with it’s new wax job, but there is a small layer of yellow dust all over it. Didn’t get the interior done because my wife talked me into going for a bicycle ride. First time I’ve been on a bike since sometime last fall and after 20 miles, boy was my butt sore. Doesn’t feel too bad now, but I’m sure if I went back out and sat on the seat again the agony would return full force.

On a whim we decided to replace the area rug in the dining room. Off we went to our favorite rug store, Lowes. We have hard wood floors and they really need refinishing, but we just cover them up with cheap $100 8 x 10 rugs. All the others are just plain tan/beige things, but this time we went with a pattern that has most of all the colors in the wallpaper and curtains. Fortunately today was sunny so we could get this rolled up rug home in the family pick-up truck, the Miata. On the way home we had to stop in a mini-mart for a quick item. Donna ran in and left me in the car guarding the rug (like anyone would steal a 9′ long, 12″ diameter roll.) While lolling around waiting I noticed the tag on the rug, underneath the plastic wrapper, it said, “Contents: 100% undetermined fibers.” Soda bottles? Tires? Mattress stuffing? Barbershop floor clippings? I think I’ll keep my socks on.

Purchased Today: zero
Money spent since 03/03/03: $81.38
Started down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 54

Zone Alarm

Though I was going to have to reformat the PC this evening. I rebooted and when it came back up everything was really slow and whenever I tried to open an explorer window or the control panel, nothing would happen, then it would lock up. Rebooted in safe mode and even that seemed to take forever. When it finally did come up I copied all my files to the 2nd hard drive incase something bad was happening. I exported the run tree of the registry and then deleted all the keys pertaining to programs. I cleaned out the start up folder and rebooted regular. Tried to open an explorer window and it was still crapola. I then realized that Zone Alarm was running. It must have been started somewhere that I missed. As soon as I shut it down the explorer window popped up. I got on the net unprotected and went to TrendMicro and ran their free online virus scan just to be sure it wasn’t something besides ZoneAlarm. They gave me a clean bill of health. Next I uninstalled ZA and then reinstalled it. Same thing. So I uninstalled it again and pruned the registry of anything with Zone Alarm or Zone Labs in it. Downloaded and installed Sygate Personal Firewall.

Revoking Your Convertible Ownership Rights

Rollerbladed for 3 miles this morning before doing chores. As promised the car got the star treatment today. Saved the interior clean up for tomorrow, so there was enough time to go for a hike in the woods with Donna. Afterwards we took the long way home to enjoy the open air motoring experience. If you live anywhere near central SC or GA and didn’t go for a top down drive today, you better go tomorrow, or I’m coming over and revoking your convertible ownership rights, man it was gorgeous.

Purchased Today: $7.63 in oil
Money spent since 03/03/03: $81.38
Started down, went up, went down, still down.
Top Transitions since 02/02/03: 54

Damn This Is Daunting

I’ve been using AutoCAD in my work since 1987. I am comfortable doing stuff in it, matter of fact, before we got networked and Microsoft Office I used to do a lot of stuff in ACAD that it really wasn’t designed to do. I am by no means an all around expert, 3D is a foreign language to me, but when anyone at work has a question, I’m the go to guy. Well now I know how they feel when they face with the myriad commands of AutoCAD and overall complexity of the program, I just installed Adobe Illustrator. I need to redo the Barndoor Fan Club logo and design something new for some T-shirts and it helps the screen printer (and saves me money) if I can give him an Illustrator file.

I’ve bought a 3 inch thick book on using the program, but boy howdy, it’s got a lot of commands with strange names and nothing works like I think it should. I imported an AutoCAD drawing and the text stuff came through OK, but I need to fill something and it won’t cooperate. I have figured out the object is a compound path, but I need to turn it into a plain path to fill it. Back to the book.