August 2009
46 posts
DMV hell.
Parts parts parts, rebooting servers, parts, sweeping, parts.
Two people have been trying to issue me a title for 40 minutes. Now they say they must start again.
I am expecting a very special delivery on Tuesday.
Steady husslin’
Long week is over, crammed in all my tasks at the last day, El C is finally en route , and I get to nerd it up tomorrow night. All is well.
Up in the morning, out the job; work like the devil for my pay.
In the office early and parked in @ahahn247’s parking spot, too bad he doesn’t park there anymore.
Good take on Amazon’s VPC annoncement -> http://bit.ly/142BkI
A new air filter has made the air conditioner louder at my house. Is that a good thing or a bad thing?
All famous people have been purged from my twitter and FB feeds.
How to cover the social web: write the same article over and over again about how your facebook friends send boring updates.
Dear US Post Office: you suck at everything except delivering 15 lbs. of trash to my house a week.
Recipe for hating everyone: go to the grocery store. I miss freshdirect.
Rain is good for the lawn and stump, but bad for getting work done in the garage.
It’s been punk rawk all day. Currently listening to “Stealing People’s Mail”
How to tell your electric car co. is making bad business decisions to try to impress nerds: you’re building a powertrain factory in PaloAlto
Can’t call it too much of a moral victory, but I the tree has been removed and the stump ground for the original price quoted.
I have automated my lawn maintenance.
Another good band that has come and gone before I ever listened to them: The Murder City Devils.
Al Green, you are the only one who can help me now.
What feature is most missing from laconi.ca? Any sort of coherent documentation.
Day Five of not having the tree work finished, also known as ‘Stop Payment Day’
Home depot on Sunday; horrible. 18v hammer drill; awesome.
Feein’ handy.
Vintage plates for the El Camino -> http://bit.ly/2RKz5G
Football and shop manuals. I am looking forward to this fall.
8am, 10am. What’s the difference, really?
The eight hour symphony of chainsaws has finally begun.
Charlie was right. The tool shopping has begun.
Saw a beautiful early ’60s Maserati coupe in Ashburn. Need more gold bars.
Fedex clerk had no idea how to ship stuff and kept having to ask her boss for help. Her nametag said “Team Member since 1995”
I think my car questions have been answered.
I just spent two hours working in the garage, I am drinking beer out of a can, and I am watching auto racing. I think I’ve gone native.
This is why everyone hates Microsoft -> http://tinyurl.com/kn8t9k
RT @addthis: Help Us Translate AddThis! - http://bit.ly/xQcS8
Today’s Twitter outage is impeding my ability to tell you I’m doing nothing.
Good thai food for lunch only increases my irrational sense that today is Friday.
So, I won’t be in NYC this weekend. You will just have to miss me from afar.
Training camp coverage! The long dark night of baseball is over!
I’m off to buy shortening, limes, and a watch battery.
Nerds: munin or collectd?
I’ll tell you how good I got it; I got a pool and I can’t even swim.
“You need to work on your hate words, Charlie.”
Could super soul Friday be replaced by super Sammy Friday? I’m listening to Sammy Davis Jr. At the Cocoanut Grove again.