Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 4th, 2009
Things about CHiPs that highly amuse me: The episodes wrap up very tidily with no drama. Disputes just dissolve. I’ve seen two actors that are in Dallas: Mary Crosby (Kristen Shepard), Ken Kercheval (Cliff Barnes) The vehicles on the freeway scene move so slow. I don’t know if this is because of the big “Drive […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jan 3rd, 2009
Wee 2009! It’s been a slow couple of weeks and I’ve been glad. I spent Christmas in Oklahoma. I spent the most of that crashed on the couch like a king! I wound up working Friday, fortunately it was a pretty quiet day. I got two seasons of CHiPs, been watching that here and there. […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 18th, 2008
AT&T finally ported my number to my iPhone. This means I am finally back to carrying one phone. Last night it felt weird not hooking my Nokia to the charger on my night stand. I’ve been doing this action right at 10 years; it’s quite the habit. This weekend I was browsing through textbooks at […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 15th, 2008
It was quite stuffy in my apartment last night, I turned on the AC and went to bed. This morning I wake up to a frosty 33 F day; it was quite chilly in the apartment. This of course is only second in comparison to it being 81 F at noon last Tuesday then plunging […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 30th, 2008
The past few days were spent in Oklahoma visiting the family. I left Austin at 3 AM on Thursday morning and made it up in record time. Very little traffic, and that was the point. Despite repeated pleas to “eat more” by my grandma, I managed to put on four pounds between all the turkey […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 23rd, 2008
It’s animal kingdom around here. When I first moved in, I had three squirrels munching on the oak tree just off my balcony. Then the deer roaming about. Last month there was a pair of bucks walking down by the mail center. This month while walking out to my truck there were four raccoon crossing […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 18th, 2008
After one of my tires gave up life, I went to NTB at 7:30 on Saturday morning to buy new tires without waiting forever. $762 later I have new rubber. Now my truck must last another 70,000 miles so I can get my money’s worth out of them. The upshot of falling crude prices is […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 9th, 2008
I finally got around to watching Cool Hand Luke. Great movie. Watched part of Giant, couldn’t stick with it. Didn’t go anywhere this weekend, stayed around home doing utterly nothing. So I need to find somebody to teach me horseback riding. Somehow it got in my head this weekend. It sounds far, far more interesting […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Nov 2nd, 2008
Discovery has a new show called Time Warp that is exceedingly interesting. I’ve spent hours watching slow motion videos on YouTube and looked forward to seeing new material. One thing they showed was a hot blonde pole vaulter doing her thing. Tangentally I went looking for pole vaulting photos on flickr and found a very […]
Posted in Uncategorized on Oct 30th, 2008
Took the truck to the shop and let my mechanic dink at it. Between an exhaust gas test and pressure test, no leak was found. When I first dropped it off, they suspected a head gasket leak but later couldn’t determine if that’s what caused it. While I was waiting, I called another recommended shop […]
