Monthly Archives: February 2005

I was busy doing something. Perhaps un-screwing-up my computer. I do a lot of fiddling, and it’s sort of like backing your car into a spot that you can’t seem to get it out of. Ah, well. In any case speed dating is tomorrow and today was merely the day of disappointing lunch. It was late, it was cold, it was mediocre. What are you going to do? Which also reminds me: time for another “free” iTune. I bought “My Girl” from Chilliwack the other day and I think it’s time for “I Want You to Want Me” by Cheap Trick.

Why do I need a girlfriend (or a cat) when my iPods all get all huffy if I don’t pay attention to them every single day? There’s no way I’m getting through a shuffle of 580 songs because if it sits for too long (longer than a day) it just resets itself. So, nobody asked, but here’s the story with yesterday’s picture. My friend Greg cut down a lot of his trees to put in a pasture for horses. I think horses are stupid and stay away from them, but his daughter likes them. So far, he’s cut down five acres of trees, put up a $60,000 barn (or something … Continue reading →

It has to do with a couple of idiots trying to make their own seed broadcaster rather than buying, borrowing, or renting one. I’m too tired to explain right now, so here’s the picture: More details tomorrow.

I want to update my iPod mini’s software, but I have it on “shuffle” and I want to listen to the 580 songs on it at least once. If I update the software, it resets the iPod and I have to start over with a new shuffled list of the 580 songs. I didn’t go to the gym today because I got a ride home and started thinking about the chip programming kit I got in the mail yesterday. Then, of course, I had to start building the kit and you can imagine why I never made it there. I only go three times a week, so if I get … Continue reading →

OK, so she wasn’t lost, I just lost track of where she was. She even has a blog where she said something, well, controversial and everyone is writing their opinions to her. Obviously it involved religion, politics, or both. You can check it out for yourself. BTW, did I mention my friend is very attractive? She’s also happily married with two kids. Speaking of blogs, all my complaining got Carolyn posting on her blog, but now I have to hear about all her escapades with the boys of Chicago. And I’ve had dry spells. You better believe it. Well, I got my new soldering iron and chip-programming kit from China, … Continue reading →

Or as I’ve heard it called, Drag-on ball. I used to watch it in Japan on Wednesday nights at exactly 6PM. Japanese TV was pretty darn precise back then. I don’t know what it’s like now, fourteen years later. Anyway, it’s a serial cartoon that came from a comic book. I used to read comic books all the time and I think it might have helped me with my Japanese reading. Or maybe I just looked at the pictures. I’ve been tracking two of my packages on UPS’s web site. One was shipped 2-day air and it’s in Portland already. The other is making it through a bunch of towns … Continue reading →

My co-worker had to get his passport picture for a trip to Fiji (his dad’s a DOCTOR after all) and we saw some awards in frames at the photo shop. I figure we should start getting them for ourselves, and post them on the walls at work. Unfortunately, the only thing we could think of is giving ourselves awards for going to the same Mexican restaurant FIVE DAYS IN A ROW. It probably wasn’t all that good for us and it wasn’t the best Mexican food I’ve had, but it was good. I think I get to work late again tomorrow. Joy.

I remembered what else was bringing me down: I was staring at the New York Times crossword puzzle for THREE HOURS and making little progress. It’s not all that hard, but I got nowhere on it. My sister isn’t the only one crafty in the family. I finally put up a gallery of pictures from a show of my grandmother’s crafts. She died last year at the age of 98-years-old (and five months). And I suppose that’s about it. Went to the gym, read about DSPs and FLASH RAM (what else do you do when you’re climbing an endless set of stairs) and I suppose that’s about it. Besides hiting … Continue reading →

Got up today feeling quite tired. So, after taking a nap, I decided to do my taxes! After wrestling with TurboTax and typing in all my medical expenses, the software ended up submitting the 1040EZ for me. Hell, the 1040EZ is designed to be filled out with a CRAYON and I could have done that in a minute. I wonder why I went to all that trouble. So onto the task that makes me crazy: doing my parents taxes. Mostly because I have to dig through my dad’s crap to find most of his paperwork. He likes to squirrel things away for some reason. Anyway, being tired and cranky and … Continue reading →

I probably forgot to do it. I was going to mention that my friend Sun realized that she’s known me all her adult life (whatever that means) and that we seem to have misplaced a lot of the friends we had. TERRY PRIBBLE, WE’RE TALKING ABOUT YOU. And Ian Griswold (though he’s married and in a different category) and Greg Watkins and Ed-whose-last-name-slips-my-mind-right-now, etc. Anyway, two other things. One is that I went to the ham radio swap meet and bought another Morse code key: Something I’ve wanted to find for a while and it says “Flame Proof” on it. Not that I’m going to test that. The second is … Continue reading →

OK, so I even went as far as calling Il’s co-worker Rick. Well, I TRIED to call his co-worker Rick, but I didn’t know Rick’s last name so I think they gave me the wrong Rick. No wonder he didn’t call me back. In any case, Il was off on a cruise in the Carribean and swore he told me before he left. We figured out that he did call, but didn’t get me and didn’t leave a message on my answering machine. He did, however, gain 10 pounds on his trip. Did I mention my 88-year-old father was poking me yesterday, telling me I am fat? Oh, and let … Continue reading →

OK, not Chan, but my friend Il Oh. I figure he’s just on vacation or something, but I haven’t been able to contact him since before SuperBowl Sunday. He’s one of the three people I call on my cell phone, and since my sister is always watching some horrid TV show and can’t talk, he’s really just one of two people I call. I get bored on the walk back from the gym. Speaking of the gym, I didn’t feel any better after going today. Usually I feel a little better and a little less tired after I finish, but today I just felt beat. Perhaps I’m still running a … Continue reading →