He’s here to fix the… faucet! Yes, the one from last winter. And now to repair the even larger, but somewhat neater, hole in the drywall. Or maybe get some kind of access panel type-deal from Home Despot. The guy was from the same company that “fixed” the faucet the last time it froze (and that one took 2 trips). The work is being covered under warranty. This means a lot to us. Also on the list of prospective plumbing jobs: replace ejector pit, possibly install a utility sink in the laundry room. We’d previously gotten an estimate (rather high,…
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I get many complimentary reactions on the ring, from the sort of person — invariably female, thus far — who notices diamonds. Sometimes it’s like being accepted into an exclusive club. Women Who Wear Large Diamonds. The only thing that seems to confuse them is that I wear it on my right hand, not my left; the sapphire engagement ring over the wedding ring on my left hand being quite small by comparison. Diamonds come from men, in this particular sorority’s estimation, and are always worn on the left hand. I also am not a member of that sorority –…
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BBC NEWS | Americas | Bulldozer rage man kills himself>A shopkeeper, who went on the rampage in a bulldozer in the US state of Colorado to protest against local town planning policy, has killed himself. Not the first time this has happened. A bizarre trend in the making: Residents of Alma, in Park County southwest of Denver, are still rattled over what caused town native Thomas Leask to go on a deadly bulldozer rampage in February 1998. The first one was over town planning, the second one was operating on instructions from God. Both were crazier than bedbugs. Avoid all…
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Creed goes their separate ways, Chicago ex-fans feel sense of validation: The group, known for their Christian-inspired songs, called it a day after eight years. Creative differences? Maybe. Everybody but Scott Stapp is involved in re-forming a new band. Or maybe they’re not all movie fans, since Stapp is contributing a solo track to a Passion of the Christ-inspired tribute album, and they’re not. Whatever it is, they’re not singing out of the same rock-tinged hymnal anymore.
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A senior navy official said recently that a deployment to the Gulf would send a message. Some how I think this is not the message, but this. Note some of the companies – isn’t “Hunt O’l” a Texan firm? Big Bush fundraisers? Yep. And oh HO, what’s this? Service companies First Exchange Corporation Halliburton TGS-Nopec Veritas Well, that’s just plain old All-American sabre-rattling. No harm in that. And now I think I’ll stroll off to AAR and post it somewhere. Meanwhile, surely the US Navy could do a little humanitarian medical work pro bono in the area? Asking too much?…
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CHICAGO (Reuters) – For want of a small change to the Illinois election law, President Bush’s name is not supposed to be on the state’s November ballot, but officials said one way or another, it will be there. The glitch arose because the Illinois legislature adjourned earlier this week without extending the Aug. 30 deadline for presidential candidates to be certified by the state elections board and qualify for the Nov. 2 ballot. Oh! Oh! There went my ass again. It keeps falling off today. First, Al Franken gets tortured on his show, because Ann Coulter said it had to…
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If you want to skip the MT babbling brook o’ technogoo, skip the next paragraph. After a false start, David got the latest version of MT-Blacklist installed. I couldn’t do it myself because an older version was up at MT-Plugins We tried to use a package called MT-Bayesian, but it’s only partly working and the creator doesn’t recommend using it for now (so that’s why no link). Which is okay, since MT-Blacklist can also delete the stuff, just not in as cool a way as the other plugin could have. And it can’t teach itself to ID spam, either –…
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Yes, it was available at Borders. Yes, the counter guy was puzzled; he’d never heard of it. Yes, I grabbed it with a little “glee!” sound. Happy birthday to David. Hope you like the Firefly DVD! (we watched one of the never-aired episodes, “Trash.” Heh. And there are two more. And extras. And then maybe a movie will come out someday. Because they rolled film today.
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CBS has confirmed that it will air The Amazing Race 5 during the summer of 2004, beginning on July 6, as it originally planned. Thus, CBS chairman Les Moonves’ trial balloon regarding the possibility of delaying TAR5 for the CBS fall schedule, which he trotted out during the network’s “upfront” presentations in May, has been punctured. Yay! More confirmation. And tomorrow, the cast bios go live.
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Bucky is either an All Blacks fan, or he’s a rilly, rilly, pissed-off kitty. Stay out of his way today, or be crushed by his warlike intensity. (and yes, when the orcs do their war chant and dance steps in The Two Towers, that’s a haka)