There are a lot days that I don’t feel my best necessarily. Now it could be a lot of things. It could be the Cherry fruit pie and Chocolate YoHoo (sp?) that I had for lunch yesterday. Or perhaps the fact that I had a cinniman pop tart for breakfast that cause my illness.
In hindsight though, I believe it was the 3 day old milk that I drank…..yeah, that was probably what was allowing pure concentrated evil to emanate from my “tush” yesterday.
I just want to apologize in advance for those I put in the hospital…:)
Let’s see, been working 12 hour days here pretty much every day but for sunday. The house is starting to wither a bit, but i’m sure things will die down soon, plus i’m on vacation from my primary job next week so that will give some time for me to concentrate on fixing some stuff around here. On the bright side, I now know more about romance novels than I ever wanted to…oh, wait…that’s not a bright side.
Finally got to do some tweaks on my computer also, using this article at IANAG as a template. Really though, the most useful tip was to use a program called TweakXP by Driverheaven. Saves you from having to do a lot of registry editing by hand, and I’m pretty happy with it personally.
Also, I patched Doom 3 to 1.1 just for the heck of it. Patch here
- More pictures of storm damage, this time from Sweden.
- Jack Daniel’s reduces alcohol content in their whiskey….also 15% less paint thinner as well.
- Volunteer firefighter gets 7 days in jail for taking “memento’s” from Ground Zero in NY. Satan reportedly ordering more pineapples as we speak.
- Top 11 reasons you just saw boobies on my computer screen.
- Man ticketed for landing helicopter in his back yard. Wait? that’s against the law? Damn…so much for that idea.
you abuse me in a way i never known
Thank god I have headphones at work.
For some undetermined reason, somebody near me has chosen to clip their nails at their desk. Now, you have to understand that I work in a very quiet office and can hear just about anything over a whisper near me.
Every time they clip, it’s like evil midgets are nailing rusty railroad spikes in my ears….*shudder* i mean jesus christ, wtf, it almost sounds like they need my dremel over there. I don’t care if I do go deaf from blasting Type O Negative, as long as I don’t have to feel as if my ear canal is being violated.
So, me and Jen finished painting the 3rd coat of paint on the Family room walls yesterday. We originally went with a color called Manhattan Mist….but once it dried it looked more like pastel M&M’s than the light blue grey we were expecting.
After that debacle, we agonized over colors for hours in the Home Depot and finally decided on Pewter Mug.
pics you say? well yes I just happen to have a few:
Also snapped a cute pic of chloe and nibbler exploring their emotional sides 
I’m also trying to finish up playing FF7 on the computer downstairs. Jen’s been great about letting me play in the evenings while she’s making dinner. Right now I’m trying to get the chocobo racing out of the way so I can breed a golden chocobo and eek every little bit of joy out of this game before I go make Sephiroth my beeyotch.
Oh, and Jen’s motorcycle lessons are going great. She’s really kicking ass and doing very well. The sad part is she’s doing a lot better than I did when I started. Next week we’ll work on doing wheelies!
5min hallway
- cute little ocelot is born, named zeus. Can they be kept as pet’s? On second thought….nevermind.
- Things my girlfriend and I have argued about. Submitted by Stacey, and completly unrelated to my relationship.
- If a homeless guy pee’s himself in your store and tries to sit down on your chairs, let him. Or the cops will arrest you.
- Remember the rejection hotline? Now there’s a rejection email. Let me know how you like it at djudd@papernapkin.net. 
- OMG! I LOVE THIS SITE: I WORK WITH FOOLS. You have to read this site.
give up the toad yeah, o o ohhhh
I find it deliciously ironic that I’ve spent the whole labor day weekend laboring. Not that I’m complaining really, it’s been a great chance to drive around to the local hardware stores multiple times. So far we’ve been to:
Home Depot twice
Lowes twice
Ace
Expo
Menards
The Great Indoors
And discovered that a 34″ pivot shower door can fit in Jen’s car, purchased a lamp online, bought a mail box, and found out what 13 dollar beer tastes like.
Speaking of the light, here’s a pic of what we ordered:
We did manage to get the new mail box installed saturday-sunday (concrete takes 24 hours to cure fully) and of course took pics. The mailbox has been a subject of wishful renovation since we moved in. Complete piece of crap, complicated by the fact that they used a 23lbs box on a cheapy little cedar post with no real structural suppport. If you look at the pictures below you’ll see the pathetic amount of concrete that was on the post. Where we used about 60lbs of concrete in ours….(20″x9″ hole). I mean seriously, if you going to do a job (the original builders probably did this) at least take the time to do it right or don’t even fucking bother. God it irritates me so much…..
Old:
New:
Here’s a couple of in progress shots:
Well, if you’ll excuse me, time to go see a man about a motorcycle for Jen And with any luck Rick and Kristin will be back from St. Louis safely.
I seem to have a backup of video’s on my hard drive, so I finally uploaded them and here they are:
(of course they’re all G rated….sicko’s, and courtesy of Jen)
Movie 1
What not to do if someone falls in front of you
Movie 2
BOING! is not a release skill
Movie 3
Be careful with the Javelin….fatty
Movie 4
New report from Tikrit, Iraq
These are actual comments made by announcers (and athletes) during the Athens Olympics.
1. Weightlifting commentator: “This is Gregoriava from Bulgaria. I saw her snatch this morning during her warm up and it was amazing.”
2. Dressage commentator: “This is really a lovely horse and I speak from personal experience since I once mounted her mother.”
3. Paul Hamm, Gymnast: “I owe a lot to my parents, especially my mother and father.”
4. Boxing Analyst: “Sure there have been injuries, and even some deaths in boxing, but none of them really that serious.”
5. Softball announcer: “If history repeats itself, I should think we can expect the same thing again.”
6. Basketball analyst: “He dribbles a lot and the opposition doesn’t like it. In fact you can see it all over their faces.”
7. At the rowing medal ceremony: “Ah, isn’t that nice, the wife of the IOC president is hugging the cox of the British crew.”
8. Soccer commentator: “Julian Dicks is everywhere. It’s like they’ve got eleven Dicks on the field.”
9. Tennis commentator: “One of the reasons Andy is playing so well is that, before the final round, his wife takes out his balls and kisses them… Oh my God, what have I just said?”
Friendster coder fired for blogging
From the ironic department comes this little turd of a story.
Joyce Park is a coder for a company called Friendster. Friendster, as it’s clever moniker implies, is a website dedicated to creating a network of friends via “6 degree’s” type smoozing. Basically they make money by intruducing people and getting the to talk and communicate.
That fact in mind, the recently fired….nay, shitcanned one of their programmers for discussing the change from java to php in her blog. While this information may seem technical, the disclosure of it in no way could affect security. Anyone with half a brain would be able to tell just by looking at the page. The primary goal of the post was to discuss the scalibilty of php over java in terms of meeting performance goals for the main user interface.
They fired her for blogging. Not about corporate information, releasing proprietary code, or lack of productivity. They simply fired her for this one post. No warning, no notice, just a dismissal for blogging about something readily apparent in the url.
if you have a friendster account I suggest you follow these directions to cancel it.
More information:
- Fired for blogging
- shitcanned
- Fired from Friendster for Blogging
- Scott Sassa is a clueless newbie (I was gonna use the term asshat personally)
blue skies
Yesterday was a very busy, sweaty day for us as we installed the last subfloor in the family room. Nothing like hauling and cutting 7/16″ OSB all day to get some exercise. Not to mention all the screws we had to put in.
Won’t find backgrounds like this at the Sears photo place:
That damn angle for the fireplace was a bitch to figure out:
Imagin me doing this about 700 times, that was what our day was like:
Shortly thereafter, Jen made the obligitory “coming out of the closet” joke.
The finishing touches:
Phew….all done. With a sheet to spare. Damn we’re good….
Poor Gizmo, he’s so freaking cute but we have no idea why he just sits in the corner all the time.
Ever have a feeling like your being watched? That poor chipmunk has no idea that there are 3 blood thirsty animals inches from him. Thank god the glass is strong.
Damn you Toblerone
I forgot how good Toblerone’s are….damn tasty. They had some at the food bank yesterday and were using them as “snacks” during break.
So I want to post, just because. Was really busy yesterday moving everything out of the family room into the living room so we could put plywood subflooring down today (which we’re going to do after I post this).
So here’s a before, before, before and after pic of the living room. It’s only a temp setup:
As and additional bonus, if you call right now and order you get a free picture of Nibbler attempting to mind control me into getting him some tuna.
The End of the World
I know it’s old, but I had to do something to get the Magical Trevor song out of my head
- Want a Con Ed tatto? Just fall on one of their grates in NY.
- GM wins in Derrick Thomas wrongful death suit. Wow….anybody can sue over anything now a days eh? Hmmm…speeding, weaving, no seat belt, ice…..well thats not an accident, its Darwinism.
- AVP kicks everyones ass. Movie reviewers now looking for jobs as weather men where nobody expects them to ever be right.
- Man splases cop with puddle. Man gets’s arrested. If your gonna stand in the street…perhaps it might be a good idea to not do it by a puddle…dumbass.
- cute, stupid little kitty thing.
Here’s a litte link for anyone reading this from Hazelwood, MO. Good luck to everyone out there, if it’s any consolation the extra money saved by your jobs being phased out will allow some executive to buy a new gold plated enema bag.
I’ve done a lot of things in my life, and like to consider myself a pretty handy guy, but jesus christ this house is killing me. It’s like every time we fix something, something else breaks just to mock us for thinking we could get ahead.
So I dremel’d out the grout and replaced the bad spots in the master bath, then I recaulked it with the best caulk money can buy. Then we let it sit for like a week to cure. Then we finally test the water, only to notice the drain is now leaking magically.
I then proceeded to spend a very difficult 1/2 hour chistling out lead from the old drain, and pulling out the oakum. And if that wasn’t hard enough we decided to replace the drain completely.* So armed with a new drain assembly I decided to remove the old one. Guess what…it’s not easy. Took about 6 cutting wheels to get thru the metal (fiberglass reinforced even). After that it was pretty much easy though. Although reaching the nut from the bottom via the hole the downstairs bathroom fan was in was very hard. I think I pulled a muscle..:(
behold the joy that was my life for 1/2. Damn near blew out my kness crouching like that for so long:
Mmmmm…yummy. Most of that dust is actually the damn cutting disc’s
Shot from below of the old pipe, and drain sleeve freshly cut off (bottom part anyways)
Better shot after I cut off the pipe…god what a cheap piece of crap drain assembly!
Yummy, this is what 10 dollars will get you at the local store
Just a dry fit to make sure the cuts are all correct, the pipe has to be perfectly centered in the drain hole pretty much. When working with pvc always dry fit your connections first.
Voila, new drain in place. The nice thing is the new drain uses a compression gasket instead of lead and oakum. Very snazzy.
*see, here’s the thing. If we kept the old drain then I’d have to repack the sleeve with oakum and use some type of lead substitute to seal it. And the odds of that working are pretty crappy, especially if the leak is caused by the drain sleeve itself.
