‘Bout time for a time change!
Well, I dunno if we’re on standard or daylight savings time now, but whatever it is, it should stay this way. I know that the days get shorter in the winter and everything. But everytime there’s the time change in the fall, EVERYBODY talks about how much it blows that it gets dark so much earlier. And then come spring, everyone (including myself) sings praises of the return of the longer afternoons.
So if everybody hates the fall time change, but loves the spring time change? Why the hell change it at all? Nobody needs light in the morning, because nobody does anything they actually WANT to do in the morning anyway. You get up, you dread work, you work, then you savor the sweet salvation that is the evening. THAT’S where I want my sunshine. Who cares if the sun doesn’t come up until 10:00am in the winter time? It’s cold, we’d rather be sleeping anyway.
What a crap hole!?
Okay. I always knew Ogden wasn’t the classiest place. I mean my neighborhood is far from picturesque. But I was driving around the town today trying to find a car that Mom is interested in and WOW. There’s some places that are…uh…decayed. Yeah, we’ll use that word. It’s nicer.
Trailer parks with cars parked in the driveways that looked like they’d been lit on fire. Angry dogs running loose in the streets. Houses that looked like they hadn’t had a thing done to them since the day they were built. Just scary looking neighborhoods. Lots of “No Tresspassing” signs tied to the flimsy chain link fence in the front yards. Even one sign that said, “Forget the dog, BEWARE OF OWNER.” Ha ha.
I guess I never really drove around the town and paid attention. Suppose I just tried to tune it out. But MAN! I don’t have real high standards, but talk about some perspective. Glad I’m moving come the end of June.
New computer case!
Well my original computer case from the first computer I ever built was starting to get annoying. It’s loud on it’s best day. But lately it’s been prone to buzzing as joints have gotten loose over the years from moving around. But it was a cheap computer case and it served me well!
I decided to step up to something a little more solid. The NZXT Hush case. It’s advertised as a “silent” case. But I don’t expect utter silence. I just though it was a slick looking computer case mostly.
It has sound deadening foam on all sides too!
I haven’t gotten it hooked up yet (obviously) but I have a nice little project to work on after work today! Once I get power to it it should have a cool glow to it. Like so:
Oh no. Game competition e-mail updates!? I’m doomed.
I remember back when I was younger. Prolly junior high age. The N64 was hot on the scene and Mario Kart 64 was brand new. OH how I loved that game. And still do. My obsession came in the form of Time Trials. For one reason or another I got hooked on it. I used to get a gaming magazine called “Tips & Tricks”. Each month, at the time, they would publish a new fastest time for the Mario Raceway track. I’d spend a week or two trying to beat the time in the magazine, and eventually do so. The small little segment got so popular that evenutally they started including other tracks. I guess from there I was hooked. I laid down some blistering times on all the tracks I could, wait for the next issue, and repeat.
Cue the internet.
Once we got online, I was able to look up other people that played the game. Compare times and after a few days, somebody (who saw my time) worked on it, eventually beat it and posted it. Pictures for proof of course. Which was acceptable proof in a time before the rise of Photoshop. So back and forth we would go challenging, and besting, each other’s records.
Now, real time updates?
I just got a new game on my computer called Audiosurf. Where you take your music collection already on your computer, and you get to ride a course generated from the song, trying to score the most points. Hard to explain, so if you don’t know what it is, check a video HERE. One of the cool features is it automatically posts your scores and shows you how you compare to everyone else that played that same song. Nifty. As if that’s not enough. I’m at work today, and check my e-mail. And it’s a message notifying me that 10 MINUTES AGO Biebs beat my score for one of the songs I played.
Right now it’s just this game. But soon with any game I’ll be able to know when the bar has been raised, and I’ll be FORCED to sit and hone my skills until I’m once again atop the masses. Only to cause countless others to do the same, and thus the never ending cycle of striving for that extra 10 points, that extra .003 seconds. If they ever include this feature in Mario Kart, I am surely doomed.
I did it AGAIN!
Geeze, I’m terrible. You ever have one of those things you have to do, and for some reason or another you keep telling yourself, “I’ll do it tomorrow”? Well…I just realized TODAY that February is the month to renew my car tags. Which I HAVEN’T done yet! DOH! Too late now to do it today. I’ll have to head in tomorrow morning. But hey, I haven’t gotten pulled over the first 3 days of March. I think I can make it one more!
I hope.
Welp, I guess I’m going to let them go.
All those parts I had for the El Camino. It’s looking like I’m probably not going to find another before I move and all those parts would be expensive or damn near impossible to move. So I’m going to see what I can sell and whatever I can’t sell I suppose I’ll have to just take to the scrapyard and get what I can for it.
It kinda makes me sad, but the plan is to take the money from those parts (which is a lot easier to move 😉 ) and put it towards another El Camino. One in a bit better shape that hopefully I won’t even NEED all those parts. Luckily tomorrow is supposed to be sunny and in the mid 60’s up here. I’ll get everything strung out and get some nice pictures and start posting around and see. It’s not the most popular body style, so finding a buyer might be tricky around here. If you know anybody with a 73-77 El Camino or Malibu send ’em my way! I’ll make ’em a heck of a deal!
Mud everywhere!
Well for the last two months there’s either been snow on the ground, or the ground has been frozen. Last couple of days have been decent, but now EVERYTHING is mud. My landlord was nice enough to come over with a plow and push snow from the driveway and sidewalk. Unfortunately, he pushed a lot of the gravel with it. So those are mud too.
Let the dog out. Muddy paws.
Take the trash out. Muddy feet.
Get out of the driveway. Muddy car.
Come home. Muddy carpet.
Bring on the sunshine!
Going to be doing some re-organizing.
Well the blog has changed a lot in the 3 years since I started it. I’ve switched from blogger to WordPress. And new features have been added. Originally the tags were used to indicate who posted what, but now the author is listed with all the posts. So those tags are a bit redundant. When posting, feel free to choose the appropriate category.
I’m going to go through and re-tag stuff as I have time. But there’s over 600 posts so it will be a while. After everthing is retagged, I’ll remove the author categories like “Genius of Matt”.
When I imported from Blogger to WordPress long ago, it made me the author of all the posts that were ever posted on the old site. So I’m going to try to make sure the appropriate author gets labeled. If you’re ever looking through the archives and see something you didn’t write with your name on it. Let me know and who you think DID write it so I can change it.
Now that there’s a little bit of history and information built up here, I want to try to organize it a little better so it’s easier to search through.
We all have those ‘moments’…
We call them brain farts, senior moments, blonde moments…something to make light of our stupidity. Heck, I have them every day! So, when someone else does it on a grand-ish scale I have to admit the little ‘evil-me’ kind of enjoys it.
Our Friday lunch special was a Chili Burger. The name implies that it is chili on a burger. I took out my first one and commented that it sure must be a small burger cuz all I see is chili. But, it’s a special and some businesses will downsize on portions to sell it cheaper. The cook just looked at me like she didn’t appreciate my opinion.
Through half of lunch I served these and all people said was that they’d be hungry before supper. Finally, someone had the nerve to say that it was the strangest Chili Burger they’d had with only chili and no hamburger patty.
Turns out the cook “didn’t know” what a chili burger was and she was sending out a spoon of chili on a bun. Ok, I get it that the general population wouldn’t know what a chili burger is, but does this cook make 50 cheeseburgers a day? Does she just send out cheese on a bun? Where does common sense and accountability come into play. If she didn’t know what she was cooking, then ask! When I remarked that I couldn’t see a burger, shouldn’t a little light have gone off above her head? No, too subtle? Ok, when I turned in my order tickets that had “special burger” written in big letters, shouldn’t THAT have been a clue?
I pull some dumb-assed stunts. In no way do I fantasize that I am a great waitress. I get by because I’ll be the first one at the table letting people know when I screw up. Hell, I’ve spilled drinks on people, even dropped a steak knife in a guys lap. We laugh, have fun at my expense and they come back time after time. Some of them even ASK for me to wait on them. However, yesterday people left feeling screwed and tattooed after paying almost six bucks for a scoop of chili with their bread.
But, oddly no one was held accountable EXCEPT the lady that complained that it was the weirdest chili burger she’d ever had. Yeah, she’s been labeled a trouble maker. Go figure that one out!
I love people that buy domain names for no reason.
It’s no secret that I’m not the best speller in the world. Okay, that’s sugarcoating it. My spelling BLOWS. Unfortunately the spell check that’s built into Firefox isn’t its most polished feature. For instance the recommendations it gives for “definetly” are:
redefined
definer’s
definers
redefiner
defined
All of which while albeit close to the word I spelled, are no where near “definitely”. So when Firefox can’t come through for me I resort to Google. They always come through for me. It’s like they’re reading my mind or something. I’m sure they will be someday anyway.
Perfect! First guess! Why couldn’t Firefox figure that out?
But my eyes caught the second result. I clicked. I laughed. I know how to spell “definitely” now!