| 2008-04-23 22:05:03 846 So sometimes I fail at the internet. I have been pissed at the Netgear for failing to port forward when the real issue was that I had Allard's gateway set wrong. Wah. |
| 2008-04-22 21:08:57 845 So my netgear router is broken. Updated the firmware and now I cannot change the channel, SSID, or region on it. Also port forwarding does not work. So in the meantime I pointed the DNS of sesser.net to my webspace on Ra. So I do not feel like putting my fast 10mb hub back into place as the backbone of my network. I am in the market for a pre-N router with a Gigabit rear end. Soon afterward I'll be shopping for a gig card for Allard. Yay for faster backups. Had a great weekend with the Garraway. He picked my up Friday morning and we headed up to Oxford to do Lambda Xi's chapter inspection. Everything went well and we spent the night at the luxurious Comfort Inn. Wandered around Oxford's holy square on Saturday morning and got lunch at Proud Larry's. A decent place but way expensive. Have to pay for the Oxford rent somehow I guess. Headed back to Starkvegas and out to Clytee's to pick up some nice pieces of cow. Got the great news from the man himself that he is moving across from Kroger in the next month and will be mere yards away from my house. Cannot remember what the name of the store is going to be. He will also be carrying more stuff like sushi grade tuna and salmon. I am just going to have to earmark 5% of my income for meat. After Emily got off we had a good "bring your own steak" get together and had some hilarious Wii time. I got up Sunday and headed to Kidz Church to run the lights and sound. Garraway headed to the inlaws' church and Mark hung out with Emily. Had several meetings with my Lambda Phi chapter that afternoon and everything went well. On Monday I got to show Garraway my vast expanse of LCD monitors hooked up to my Mac and got to eat lunch in the Union with him and the chapter before he had to head back to H'burg. Yesterday I was nearly finished mowing the front yard and the mower died. Now it is not the best mower to start with, an old Murray or something, but it was free to me from the father-in-law. It would crank and run strong for two seconds and die. The Internets told me to suspect a dirty carburetor. So last night I figured out what it was and pulled it off the mower. Today I rode the bike to Autozone and picked up some carb cleaner. Cleaned it out and put it back on. Got the mower to start and it ran full throttle and I could not cut it back. So fast it was scary. Then I could not kill it so I had to pull the ignition wire. After a few tries fixing things, I pulled the entire cowling off of the engine. Turns out there are two holes in the throttle assembly that the governor can fit into and I had put it in the wrong one. Fixed that, put everything together, and filled it up with gas fetched from the Exxon on my bike. It runs! I finished the yard so now it all looks rather well and green. |
| 2008-04-12 20:06:08 844 The Columbus Dispatch had an article on Molly's accident. Ryan's quotes were apparently butchered but at least the "anti bike lane" comes through. I wrote a comment with the grammatical help of Kevin and submitted it. Days later and they still have not posted it. Maybe I was a little too anti bike lane. Emily is triaging the poor and seriously injured of Oktibbehea County today at the hospital. She had a craving for a David roll so she called it in along with a Philadelphia roll and the ginormous specialty roll for me to Sushi on Main. Apparently picking up call in orders is pretty interesting. I walked into the main place and told a waitress that I was picking up a called in order. She directed me to go to the Chester's main desk. There was no one there but after a minute the little Asian lady (she must be the manager or something) met me and I told her what I was there for. She told me it would be a minute and headed back toward the restaurant. She came back in a couple minutes with the styrofoam containers and headed behind the counter, I thought to ring up my order. I was wrong. She looked up the ticket number and then went to head back toward the restaurant. There was a waitress passing by so the lady tasked her to run my card. I decided to follow the waitress back so I would not have to wait on her to come back to me. So back in the restaurant she ran my Amex and no receipt printed. It was out of paper. So she replaced the paper. Ran the card again. No go. The POS system then prompted for a manager login. Original lady had to type in her access code. Finally it went though. Yay for a place that is having an identity crisis and cannot decide if it is a hotel or restaurant. This morning I rode over to Kevin's and we headed to campus for the Bulldogs in Motion 5k. The route was a bit different than last weeks 5k I ran with Emily which was a plus. It was way more flat overall. Kevin and I ran together near the end where he lead out. He crossed near 24:08 and I was somewhere near 24:23. Makes my fastest 5k ever since my standing PR was Running with the King in Tupelo in 2006 at 25:05. |
| 2008-04-11 00:34:48 843 Good week for me. Worst week ever for poor Molly Hartzog. So for me I finally got Farm Bureau to settle my claim against the girl who ran me down in the horrible bike path on Monday. On the same day I got my check, poor Molly stuck by a car. Rumor is it was by a female on a cellular phone. Not so surprising. From what I have read, Molly is progressing rather well considering the injury she has been put through. I know she is strong. She is the only girl who has ever rode over 50 miles with me and a good bit of those were in the rain. She never gives up! |
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| 2008-03-31 12:18:28 841 Baked the best bread ever yesterday. To make the yeast happy I mixed it in with warm water and put in a shot of coconut cream for some sugar. After it foamed I used a 1/3 cup as a scoop and put four scoops of bread flour and two of whole wheat flour. Mixed in enough water to make get it to the right consistency and let the KitchenAid have its way with it. Plopped it out on a cookie sheet and put it in the warm oven for about 20 minutes. Then I put it in a bread pan and back into the oven for a while. When it rose over the pan I put the oven on 400 and cooked it for 25 minutes. It is so good. I guess that yeast just like coconut that much. |
| 2008-03-30 22:38:22 840 March has certainly been a fun-filled month. I have not been posting anything because of a silly extra $ in my php that had some things broken, namely being able to make new posts. Of course I am way to lazy to insert it in mysql manually. Back at the first of the month Emily and I traveled to Cabot to see the Waldroup's. My brother and Deb met us there and we had a nice dinner party with other friends participating in the Little Rock Marathon. David and Emily both ran the 5K with Emily being the fastest of course. The Waldroup's and I got to watch them pass. Cory ran a blazing second leg of the marathon relay and I miraculously managed my 8.7 mile hilly leg in 1:08:44 somewhere around a 8:48 mile. Afterward I had my usual (yes it can be my usual since I have had it twice) shrimp and grits at Bosco's. After the race Cory and I went into bike tour prep mode. We postponed by a day to avoid the monsoon that came through on Monday. Tuesday started out with snow on the ground but we set out anyway when it stopped snowing with a heavily modified Arkansas leg of the trip. Day one ended in Brinkley at a decent hotel. On day two we managed to make it through horrible headwinds and crossed the river at Helena to stay at the Isle of Capri. Had fun crossing the Delta on day three. Early on we scrapped our planned Mississippi route completely for a direct route to keep in front of another approaching front. Managed 80 miles that day. Camped at a lake in Tillatoba that night. Setting up camp was fun even though we were exhausted. Ate our MRE's and got into bed around 7:30. Slept very well until about 10 when the wind started. Almost felt like it could pick us up and throw us into the lake. After a few hours of wind, the rain started its nice pitter patter for a while. At about 2AM the wind came back even worse. To say the least we did not sleep very well. Waking up to temps in the 30's when it was 70 the night before sucks too. On day four we limped toward Coffeville. Poor Cory managed to hurt his mouth on a Snickers Marathon Bar because it was frozen. We had breakfast at a shady gas station right outside of Coffeville. From there we headed toward Bruce the best we could. We made an executive decision to go ahead and call for a pickup because the weather was only going to get worse. Kevin made the drive to Bruce and got us. We only made it 30 miles that day but it was the hardest miles I have ever ridden. So in all we managed 240 miles in four days, making it within 50 miles of my house. We learned that staying in hotels is way more easier than camping and that you can eat way more than you can imagine on a bike tour. Cory had a good stay with us in Starkville. Sarah tried to head this way more than once but had issues because of backups on I-40. She eventually made it and we all had a great time in Starkvegas. So now this month is my first 500+ mile month biking ever! After today's crazy ride with Kevin and Ryan I am a mere 34 away from making my first 600 mile month! Completely doable if I ride home for lunch and make it to the bike shop ride tomorrow... Piggly Wiggly had Radiohead's Nude playing tonight. Seriously. |
| 2008-03-11 21:07:19 839 Boo, the Fark headline for Obama maybe winning Mississippi is "Obama wins a primary in some other unimportant state." |
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| 2008-02-24 07:21:32 837 Parents came and visited Emily and I this weekend. Brought me all of the crap that I had left in the Camry. They went to Birmingham yesterday to visit my uncle Royce. We went to Tupelo with the main reason of buying scrubs. Of course the first place we went was the bike store because I really needed some chain lube. Also picked up another patch kit, new bar tape, and a Park Tool allen set. While Emily was scrub shopping I went into the pawn store next door and got the new Shek for Wii. Ate lunch at the Santa Fe Cattle Company. It was decent, just another generic "roadhouse" steak place with fake crap on the walls and peanut shells on the floor. Took a trip to the mall and I scored a Wii nunchuck so now Emily and I can play Rampage together. |
| 2008-02-10 23:05:22 836 Was a great weekend. Cory and Sarah made it here right after Emily got off work. After a tour of the house we went to Mugshot's for old times sake. Then we took a tour of campus to show them my new office and the Union and then headed back home to get our Wii on. Got up Saturday morning to cook bacon and egg quesadillas with a side of garlic parmesan grits that turned out great. After some more Wii time we got the car packed and got on the road to Birmingham. Check in at the Sheraton was ridiculously quick; Cory told her who we were, I handed her my card, and she handed it back with the keys. Checked out the room and then did the normal expo thing and looked at all of the stuff. Later on we went to Bongiorno in Mountain Brook to eat. It is a tiny restaurant and was completely packed. Great thing that we had reservations unlike last year's adventure. The food and atmosphere were great and I would definitely go again, with reservations of course. For race day the weather was great. Somewhere around 50F. Got up around 6:00 and got breakfast down. Left the room at about a quarter till and made it to the start with time to spare. Cory and I started together in the 9 minute coral and Sarah went a little ways behind us. The race started and we had a nice leisurely stroll to the start line to take off. Emily got a few pics of us after we ran for about a block. I was slow and I finally talked Cory into leaving me somewhere after mile 4. Somewhere around then I decided to scrap my under 2:00 goal and go with a under 2:10 instead. So I managed to finish in an official chip time of 2:09:50 which makes my slowest half marathon ever out of four. Crazy thing is that I managed to run the first 10K a whole 19 seconds faster than last year. But unlike last year, I slowed down a lot for the second 10K instead of speeding up. Wah wah I'll train some for the next one. Cory and Sarah did great! Cory managed to speed up for the second half and Sarah was really close to maintaining the same speed. After cleaning up after the race we did our traditional Cheesecake Factory lunch and it was great. I had the chicken madeira and it was excellent. Ate every bit of it. The waiter said people seldom finish the mashed potatoes. Took out most of a piece of turtle cheesecake too. Turns out Birmingham has a Whole Foods on 280 now so we checked it out after lunch. Coolest grocery store ever. It was so busy that it was hard to find a parking spot. Got out of there and headed home. The trip home went really fast compared to the way out with no stops. I felt sorry for Cory and Sarah who had to drive way back to Arkansas. Poor Emily didn't feel 100% most of the weekend and by last night she was not feeling very well at all. I was not feeling my best either and we went to sleep around 7:30. We both slept horribly last night and now we're both super sick. Boo on the flu. The power blinked in Starkville. Boo because Allard had been up since October 3rd. |
| 2008-02-04 21:53:05 835 Sheldon Brown died today. If there ever was a man who knew all of the intricacies of near any bicycle ever, it was him. Over the past few years I have scoured his website to help put my fixed gear bikes together and to research old bike parts. He was even a frequent poster on bikeforums and always had great advice. He is certainly going to be missed. |
| 2008-02-02 21:03:12 834 Done with the floor! Started about 10 this morning in bedroom #3 moving the last of the stuff out. Got the pad down and then started putting down floor. Most of the pieces went down easily. Had fun getting around the closet doors bit I got it to work out. Seemed like I made it to the eastern side of the room in near record time. Took me forever to get the shaved down boards against the wall. Took me a dozen forevers to get the two pieces in the hall to fit around all three doors. All of a sudden it was 7:00 tonight and I am done! |
| 2008-01-30 21:50:10 833 Riding home after work today I had a nice blowout right after turning by the Bike Shop. I turned into the Palmer Home store lot and started patching the tire. An older gentleman witnessed my blowout and came over and talked to me as I patched it. He was amazed that the hole was so small for as much noise as it made. I got it patched and pumped back up and headed on my way. After crossing Jackson it blew out again. I realized then the problem was that the rear brake shoes had drug enough on the rear tire to wear through it. Pumped it up while massaging the patch and it seemed to hold. 200 yards later not so much. Locked the bike and my helmet to a pole and walked about 1.5 miles home to get the truck and go back and pick it up. So tonight I threw away one of my ProRace2 Michelin tires. Kinda sad since it was one that I have ridden every single bike race on. I'm going to save the other one as an emergency touring tire backup. |
| 2008-01-28 21:25:44 832 WTF AP top 25 poll? Ole Miss still #24 and we are not ranked? Maybe next week... |
| 2008-01-24 23:30:17 831 Yay. I am typing this from the Wii. It works. |
| 2008-01-19 20:50:20 830 So the goal for 2008 is 10 miles a day or a whole 3660 miles. A little lofty compared to my 2017 logged miles from last year. But of course I didn't start logging until mid March '07, had that incident with the broken wrist after being run down in the "bike lane," and the whole of July known as the "moving stuff to the house" month. With my miles so far in January, 253, this already the 3rd most miles I have done in a month. Of course Ryan's goal is 6000 this year and that is just nuts. Tonight's ride was awesome. Kevin came over we watched us beat Alabama again. Afterward I dressed up for the cold, hat, gloves, tights (Emily loves them), and four layers on top. Rode to Kevin's so he could get more clothes. Left there and headed to campus to meet up with Ryan. Ryan was riding geared tonight but was pulling a trailer. From there we headed out to Forest Creek so I could get rid of the bat phone. Came back by the house so that Ryan could drop his trailer, and I could load up a pannier with ice cream and peaches to take to Emily to go with her lightning cake for the emergency room to enjoy tonight. Came back by the house so I could drop the pannier and Ryan could get his trailer before heading to Lowe's. I bought a cheapo set of yellow safety glasses so that I can protect my eyes in the dark. From there we went to Piggly Wiggly so that they could buy some firewood for their fireplaces. Afterward I headed home. Makes a whole 20.2 miles for me today and means I only have to average 9.79 miles a day now to meet my goal. |
| 2008-01-14 20:36:22 829 The Mississppi leg of the Cory and my bike tour is here. Super super long URL :) |
| 2008-01-14 20:20:10 828 Made my own version of Yin Yang Salmon tonight. My version is:
Oven to 425. Put mixture in a sauce pan and heat to a boil. Pour it over two pieces of salmon and bake for 25. Yay food is good. |
| 2008-01-07 22:49:46 827 I cheered for LSU. Yes I did. What was heard on the TV at the end of the national championship game? Chants of "SEC". Hmmmm same thing I heard when the Bulldogs beat the CUSA champs in the Liberty Bowl, otherwise known as the '07 Bowl of Cowbells. So now how many teams can I name in the ACC? I think Louisville plays for them, but who cares because Kentucky (the typical gimmme team of the SEC) beat them this year. Kentucky also beat LSU. MSU beat Kentucky. So where is MSU's 10% BCS trophy? Anyway are there any schools outside of the SEC who play football or baseball? |
| 2008-01-05 22:09:37 826 Thank you David Garraway, 3 or so years since you made this for me and now I will post it: |
| 2007-12-30 23:31:30 825 Yay Christmas! It was good even though Emily worked until 11 Christmas Eve and had to work a little on Christmas Day. Kevin Smith is awesome! So we went to the 2007 Liberty Bowl. Left Starkville around 8AM and got to the Sesti's right around 11. Went from there to Bryan's sister's to get Bryan. On the way to the game we stopped at a gas station for cokes and gas and randomly ran into the Berryhills. Kevin Smith is going to run 300 yards against MSU! The traffic was thick getting close to the stadium but not too bad. Loaded up on food at the tailgate and got our first look at UCF fans. Definitely just a bunch of wannabe Guidos. Headed into the stadium around 2:30ish and Emily and I ran into John Kennedy, Omid, and Paco. It took Emily and I forever to get to our seats. Apparently there were a bunch of idiots who could not figure out how to find their seats. We missed the entire pregame trying to get through the portal. The game was sweet. There were so many cowbells. I can hear them on the ESPN replay between all the talk about Kevin Smith. I swear it is like a mini series on the life and times of Kevin Smith. Anyway we won the game by playing the fourth quarter. Nice to know that a mediocre SEC team can beat a CUSA champion team in a terribly boring contest. After the game we assembled at Sesti's truck and got out of dodge at a blazing 2MPH. Went to the Fox and Hound and had food before we called it a night. I am watching my Tivo'ed game right now, skipped the first half to get to the good parts. The Maroon-White cheer is awesome at 2:24 and the bells are wonderful throughout. |
| 2007-12-20 21:58:57 824 Watched tonight with Emily. A bit more suspenseful than I expected.  Lots of meat! |
| 2007-12-16 21:29:01 823 The house is moving on up. Emily and I finished the baseboards in the back left hand bedroom late last week. Emily picked up blinds Friday (I tried Thursday night to buy blinds from Lowe's but there was no one to cut them because everyone was sick). I put up Emily's blinds Friday night right as my parents made it here. Yay for my directions working! On Saturday morning Dad and I worked on the two doors that open to the carport. He bought a hammer drill so that we could secure the threshold I got for the door opening into the living room. We did have to cut the door a little for clearance. Then we did a small cut job on the utility room door and was able to put a door sweep on it. Way more airtight on those doors now. Dad changed the oil in the old Toyota too. Then today I fixed up that bedroom's closet so now it is finished! So now we have a two bedroom, two bathrooms that need work, one office house with one more bedroom to finish. |
| 2007-12-10 22:34:17 822 Yay this random collection of my thoughts is more than nine years old. Nine years! ATT / Bellsouth / Cingular? is an interesting company. So I ordered Emily a phone back in November through Bellsouth's website so it would be bundled with our home phone and DSL. At some point I responded to my order confirmation to find shipment status and got a "you need to call the warehouse because we don't know" response. Fast forward a few weeks and the cell phone is still not here. Friday I got a nice letter from ATT basically asking why I had not activated the phone and that I should send it back. So Saturday I got on the phone with ATT. After talking to three people I finally got transfered to Bellsouth sales which is apparently different from ATT's. Somewhere in the middle I managed to make it to a voice prompt that told the the DHL tracking number for the phone. Turns out they shipped it to me in Starkville, but without a street address. So it made it all of the way to Memphis and was returned. So according to Bellsouth, the phone was canceled at the request of the consumer. That's right, I never knew where the phone was, but since DHL returned it, I "canceled" the order. Thank you for the timely notification ATT/Bellsouth. |
| 2007-12-10 22:08:08 821 Yay 26. I am old now. But not nearly as old as Cory will be tomorrow. He is going to win that race :) At least I get to race in the same age group as him in running races in '08. Triathlons not so much. Anyway this was most likely the most productive year of my life. 90ish percent of my first year of marriage was this past year. Emily and I bought a house. I mowed grass for the first time since leaving home in 2000. I got a new job where I get to work on Unix boxes with the most terrible text editor in the world, vi. Ran three half marathons, all under two hours. Actually got medals in two triathlons (ok racing clydesdale instead of age group, being young, and tall has its advantages). I learned how to put down laminate flooring, install faucets, replace tub/shower valves, paint closets, and do sheetrock repair. It has been a wonderful year and I would not be in this position without sweet Emily. Yay for my work-o-holic school-o-holic wife! |
| 2007-12-06 23:32:05 820 So I tried out a new training method for the Memphis Marathon, no running at all since October 10th. So three half marathons down and this one went extremely well despite my lack of preparation. I trained a bit (not nearly as well as I should have) with Kevin for the Mercedes and Little Rock halfs in February and March of this year and ran them in 1:59:55 and 1:55:52 respectively. After my broken arm induced short triathlon season, I did not feel like doing anything but riding my bikes this fall. Somehow I managed to run Memphis in 1:57:21. Now this makes me want to train and do even better at Mercedes '08 to break 1:50:00. This week was a good one. Poor Emily had to leave for Jackson on Thursday night for exams on Friday and Saturday. On Friday I rode the Raleigh to work, then after lunch rode it home to pick up the truck. Makes the first time I have driven to the new job. After work I left for Memphis, stopping only once in Grenada to get gas. Found the civic center and a parking spot and made it in to pick up my race packet. Cory and Sarah had made it in the area so Cory was able to pick his stuff up right before 8:00. We left to find the Hampton Inn in West Memphis and had some issues finding it due to confusing interstate signs. I headed towards it and ended up at the "New Hampshire Inn." Found the Hampton finally and then we went on a search for food. Cory scouted out an Italian place called Sicily's. Called for directions twice on the way but we finally made it. Looked kinda shady when we pulled up but we went for it. It ended up being a nice small family place and the food was wonderful. On Saturday morning, we got up at 6:00. Ate a Slimfast Optima and a Snickers Marathon. We were in the car leaving by 6:45 and got a great parking spot a few blocks from the start. It was cool and windy, but I only had on my shorts and a shirt since I knew it was going to warm up. This race was crazy big, the starting corals stretched at least a quarter mile. Nearer the start Cory and I got into the third coral. There were so many people. It was announced that there were over 10,000 runners in the three races. The elites started at 8:00 and we got to start at 8:03. Cory was fast. I felt like giving up at mile one and I was not able to keep up with Cory after mile two or so. I just plugged along and suddenly I was at the 10k mark and realized I was keeping a decent pace. My left foot started to hurt, turns out I managed to rub a good blister on the side of it by mile seven or so. Running near the zoo and seeing the guy dressed as a monkey giving out bananas was awesome. Soon afterward I got confused because I never saw the 8 mile marker. I thought I was making horrible time and then I passed the 9 mile marker. Things were a bit easier after that because I was so happy that I had managed to make it that far. I walked though the rest of the water stops because my legs were so tight. I even walked a little after mile 12 so I could be sure to be running across the finish line. I finally got there, the clock time was right over 2 hours, but I knew my chip time would be less, ended up being 1:57:21. I looked for the Waldroup's but had no success in finding them. So I worked my way through the stadium to the entrance where our arranged meeting place was. I was lonely for a bit nursing my bottle of water and I finally saw Sarah walking out. Caught her and we waited for Cory. Took a while but he finally came out, even though he had beat me in the race by four minutes. Yay for Cory's first half. I am so going to beat him at Mercedes, or at least hurt myself trying. We went back to the Hampton in West Memphis and got showered up. Headed back to Memphis and parked in the garage next to the Holiday Inn downtown. We went to Peabody Place and watched a movie. Afterward we checked into the hotel. The room they gave us had a really squeaky fan. Cory got that sorted out and we got a new room. We took a nap waiting on Emily to make it up from Jackson. Emily made it up and we headed to Texas de Brazil. Took a while to get in even though we had reservations. Greatest place to eat ever. I had so much steak. Even ate some chicken and some pork. I was too full when the lamb came around but Cory did get to take advantage of it due to his stomach that can hold an amazing eight gallons of food. We wandered around Beale Street for a while afterward marveling at all of the guys dressed as Santa and the girls dressed as skanky Elves. The non squeaky fan room slept very well. Got up Sunday morning, walked back to Beale, and ate breakfast at the King's Palace. Was pretty good being the only place we found serving breakfast beside Denny's. Afterward we said our good byes and headed home. Emily took the 55 to Winona then 82 east route. I took a more scenic route, getting off of 55 at Batesville, going through Water Valley, to Calhoun City, to Houston, to Pheba, and on in to Starkvegas. It was a wonderful trip. I survived. Yay! |
| 2007-11-24 19:27:10 819 Married for a year as of last Sunday. On Saturday, we drove to Columbus and watched Beowulf. Afterward we went to J. Broussard's to give it a try. It is a nice place, but fine dining it is not. We had the special crab au gratin appetizer, Emily got the veal medallions, and I got the shrimp bourguignon. Emily had to work until 11 the night before Thanksgiving and then from 7a to 3p on Thanksgiving Day. I went to Kroger at about 11a to pick up things for lunch. Kroger on Thanksgiving Day is a surreal experience. Best time ever to shop because it is almost completely deserted. I made my usual stuffing and stuffed a roasting chicken. I ran some garlic through the press, mixed it with olive oil and put it under the skin of the chicken. I also cooked a boneless ham that I glazed with a habanero honey sauce, mashed bourbon maple sweet potatoes, improvised herbed Feta mashed potatoes (Kroger had no Boursin), crescent rolls, and steamed broccoli, carrots, and garlic. Late Thursday night, I cooked up some sausage balls and Emily made some iced pumpkin bars and her tasty BLT cheese ball. Early on Friday, Tommy called to tell me to be sure to bring some fire to light the grill because he was cold. Emily and I got the car packed up and headed toward campus. My original plan was to drop her off in the Junction with the cooler, park, and walk back. We decided mid journey to park near Papa John's and walk. This was the better decision because of the backup of traffic. We made it to the tents and found Mary Beth guarding the tent. I got the charcoal lit in the chimney with shredded paper plates. After a bit Emily and I went into the game. We sat with TJ behind the band, and eventually Lehman came up too. Being the terrible fans we are, Emily and I left at half time to get back to the tent and hang out with Tommy and Steffan. Listening to the game from the tent was rather enjoyable. Tommy channeling the game was the best part. The Junction went nuts with our final field goal and Steffan and I rang our cowbells constantly until the band people made it to the tent. Was the best game day experience of the season by far. Last week Sesti pointed me toward Woot's Roomba sale. Got a Scheduler with two virtual walls for what seemed really cheap. Well Romba made it here on the FedEx today and I was excited. Pulled everything out and noticed that something was off on the main unit since there were little pieces of plastic falling around. Turns out the brush guard that hold the brushes in is broken in three places. I put in a ticket with iRobot since they are apparently not answering the phone today. |
| 2007-11-15 19:56:07 818 My new job is sweet. There is not a PC to be found on my desk. I have an older, yet freakishly fast dual 2.5 G5 tower with 2.5 gigs of RAM displaying on two 20" LCD's fo all of my terminals. Also have a SunBlade that has not been set up yet to run Solaris and Windows on the blade. |
| 2007-11-13 20:31:07 817 Great Fark headline: "Four charged in auto parts theft. Reportedly building a '49, '50, '51, '52, '53, '54, '55, '56, '57, '58, '59 automobile" Well it is great if you catch the reference. Johnny Cash for those of you who did not get it. |