I checked my email this morning, and had the following waiting from Ditech: Jim, Time to update the blog. I need you to do this for me, as I am drunk and at a co-worker of yours who will remain anonaymous at this point. I am also preatty baked. I miss your cynical look at [...]
Hey look. The title “Miscellany” is back. I didn’t use it last time because I wrote a little too much about work-oriented topics (mine and other’s). This should be a more accurate update worthy of such a title. Before leaving the office this evening, I took a trip to the head. It has become a [...]
Jesus, will this shit ever stop? Another front came through and dumped even more snow on Western Washington. As a kid I loved snow. But as a vehicle-driving adult, I learned to hate snow. Now, I’m back to kid-like feelings about snow, well, maybe 80% for and 20% against. If it snows in the north [...]
Well, we’re at the end of another year… time for my annual recap of what happened in my so-called life during the past year of 2006. I used to type this annual letter on paper and mail a copy to my family members with their Christmas card. But, more and more of my family has [...]
Alright, enough already! I’m tired of Mother Nature having her way with us… and she’s not even giving us a reach around when she fucks us. First it’s winds, record rain, and snow in November. Now more wind, record wind, in December. We knew there was a big wind storm coming; all the TV weather [...]
I drove out to La Conner again to visit Jake on Saturday. Did you ever notice that Saturday has a turd in it? I digress. Jake, the ever Windows-loyal gamer, has a file server that runs CentOS Linux, which had some issues he needed help solving. He bought a new 250 GB perpendicular recording hard [...]
Ouch! I cannot believe that a gallon of gasoline costs more than $3.00. This picture shows the price of gas here in Oak Harbor, Washington. Yeah, I know, it’s not as much as other countries. Fuck them! Other countries don’t have oil, we do. There’s no reason we should be paying this goddamned much. And [...]
So, I’m simply kicking back and relaxing on the final day of a four-day New Year’s weekend watching “Coachspeak” and “NFL Total Access” on the NFL Network. It’s “Black Monday” in the NFL, the gloomy nickname for the day after the regular season and the traditional day for firing head coaches. Five NFL coaches lost [...]
Well, Tina and I found a home for one of the stray kittens that have claimed the backyard as their own. One of the guys I work with adopted the grey kitten. He went to the store and picked up some new cat stuff, including a wind-up clock so the kitten can hear the ticking [...]
It doesn’t matter if it’s a Chinese Dynasty, the Kennedy Dynasty, the Chicago Bulls, Los Angeles Lakers, the fucking New York Yankees, an ABC primetime soap named "Dynasty," or the New England Patriots… Dynasties just plain suck. Maybe it’s just me, but I just get tired of the same thing year after year. Now, New [...]
