Tidied up a bit.
Andrea’s been in cleaning mode all day, and I caught it a little bit. Decided to clean up the computer room a bit. Moved my tower up onto the desk so it’s easier to get to. And cleaned up all the junk on my desk. Decided to take a picture while it’s actually looking decent! Yeah, I have my Windows OS running…I just got done playing some Guild Wars.
My uber geek station.
Sweet! A dryer!
Sweet! The 1981 models are out!
Well, I’m on my lunch break and just got our new (to us) dryer hooked up. We got it last night for the princly sum of $50. It’s got the sweet fake woodgrain topped control panel, which I am CERTIAN will soon be back in style.
I tried hooking the vent up last night. They gave us some sort of flat duct thing that you can slide right up next to the wall, and I did my best to duct tape it to the dryer and to the vent going outdoors…that didn’t work so well. The dryer moves a good volume of air and it gets quite hot (both good things) but it got hot enough to goo up the duct tape to the point it wasn’t sticky any more. At which point it just blew the duct right off the dryer. Well that ain’t going to work!
So I picked up some real duct work and metal clamps. I can’t slide it as close to the wall, but it’s a nice tight seal, and works like it should. I’d throw some laundry in and have it dry while I’m at work, but I’d like to be home to keep an eye on it for at least the first couple run thoughs. If a 30 year old dryer is going to burst into flames, I’d like to be there to stop the blaze before it consumes the rest of our belongings!
Just another day…
I could still be wrong…
Happy Birthday Andrea!
Andrea is 24 today! No privlages to speak of, but I have to do whatever she says all day long. Not too different from every other day!
Love you, sweetheart!
A look back: GoldenEye 007
Much has been written and said about this one. It wasn’t just an influential game for me, for millions of people (8 million to be more precise) this game revolutionized shooting games and the multiplayer experience. For the industry, it shaped every game in the genre that would come after it. For me, it was just as…if not more significant than Mario Kart 64.
Like many others, to me this game began as a mystery. Through the same channel I’d received my Star Fox promotional VHS tape, I also got a manila folder gussied up to look like an MI6 intelligence dossier. Inside were various screenshots of the game, lists of all the weapons, and all sorts of stuff to whet the appetite. At the time most of my Bond experiences were flipping through channels and seeing sweet car chases. I liked James Bond movies, but certianly not the kind of fan people think of me as today. Read the rest of this entry »
10.1.08Cheap gas?
I got up and headed to work this morning and my low gas light was FLASHING at me. It’d been dinging for a couple days, but since I only have a couple miles to drive to work, I wasn’t too concerned about it. But I figured since it’d gone the extra step to get my attention, I’d go ahead and fill up.
I’ll admit I was almost giddy when I saw the sign reading $3.15 for regular gasoline! I haven’t seen it that low for a long time! Still kinda sad that I’m getting excited about gas being over $3.00. I still think it’ll get down into the lower $2.00 range, though it might be a couple years from now. People say I’m crazy for thinking that. But I bet back in the 80’s people never thought that gas would be less than $1.00 again, but I sure remember it being 73 cents back in 1997.
Sad thing is, when I was filliing up this moring, the pump had a $50 limit on it, so I still couldn’t quite get a full tank. Hopefully gas keeps going down and it’ll have worked out!