Vageta: It's over sixty THOUSAND!!!! *crushes scouter*

 

Yup, my car turned 60 today, diving from shopping to home. May the next 60,000 miles pass as smoothly beneath your wheels as a buttered clam down the throat of a refined French gentleman on holiday in the country with his lady friend in 1862 on a Sunday after services. Now, that's smooth.

 

You know what else is smooth? Theoretical frictionless surfaces. Oh, and space, which is also big.

 

But anyway, I must thank my parents for Saturday, not in the sense that many years ago they created me though ancient rituals also used by unsavory types (warlocks), thus allowing me to experience said day, but for their help in mounting my heat engine. Not that we've had any sun, at ALL, since that time, allowing it to perform its function. Perhaps one day, in mid summer. There was some hardship, my kitchen windows being "special" and thus, hard to deal with, we managed to place the unit a meter to the left (as one looks at the back of the house in a Northbound direction) and, removing the fan unit from above the stove, put the heat pipe into the house through that aperture.

 

It's Aperture Science, where we do what we must, because, we can. For the good of all of us (except for those who are dead).

 

So, thanks! Maybe tomorrow will allow sufficient sunlight to see if moving it lessens the amount of shadow that falls upon it or increases it. 

Happy March!

 

Of course the day before was Friday, we saw Pat off to Texas with the Perfect Horizon game which went pretty well. Computer hacking is apparently the skill of choice there, I learned to always activate combat immersion even if someone is shooting at you, it's worth it.

 

Sunday I played some Pokemon and wrote the end of chapter 4 and the whole of chapter 5. I haven't posted them yet, lazy I suppose. But I did start, finally, getting calls again.

 

To that end, I did two jobs today. Oh, forgot to tell you about one Friday. Brand new laptop right? So I go over and hardened it, and he puts it to sleep by hitting the power button. I expect it to pulse or something (like it was a Mac? No chance) but it doesn't really seem... right. So I hit the power button again to wake it up. It (shock, surprise) doesn't. To then further insult us, it BSODed. Yup, a brand new machine, can't go to sleep without blue screening. Well done HP, you've restored my confidence in PC manufact- okay, I was lying.

 

Right, back to getting calls again. Two for today, the last person on earth with Dialup service, getting a whopping 19.2kbps which meant it took about ten minutes to download her 50 spam emails. Web sites took about two minutes to load, each. Now, there's speed. How are there any dialup companies left in existence? Also one of her USB ports was fried, her printer wasn't working. I switched the printer and the scanner, and the printer came back but the scanner conked out. Huh. So I sold her a 1999 USB PCI card and that was that. What? Her machine was running Windows 2000, it's a perfect match!  "Oh, I don't use the computer very much." Really? Maybe because it sucks?

 

Oh, I did the shopping this morning too. Plenty of (that which is I hope) tasty cat food for The Squeak, and my choice of toothpaste out of the 18 different varieties (per manufacturer) that exist. Why don't companies make one product that's the best in every way (like a Mac) rather then all these different products that all do the same thing, just with a slight (marketing?) variation. I bet that product would be snapped up just to avoid having to look at all the "different" products and be paralyzed with the conundrum of "too much choice".

 

Got bag of insulation to stuff in hole from Mom's, stuffed hole.

 

 

 

 

Wait, did that sound... dirty? Maybe "gap" would be a better choice of words. Yes, "gap" between outside of house and inside. Not hole. Sorry.

 

Watched a bit more star trek (sorry, couldn't help myself). 

 

Then a guy with a full hard drive  (kid's music not used anymore) and a funky printer. Please, please, put an LCD screen and an easy to use menu on your wireless printers. Don't make us jump through eight hoops to hook it up. And of course every company has to have a different, still totally illogical, way of doing it. AARG.

 

Back here, food, got some calls today too! Sadly, out of them all, I think I got back to less then half. Weird. So right now I have one actual, one possible for tomorrow if I get her address in time because there's been no answer for two days.

Better then nothing!

 

Gas is going up? I put $41 into my tank today. That's a whole hour of work I have to do to fill my tank from empty to full. At least I'll get to declare more of it on my taxes as I keep more detailed records now.  

 

Game already set for this Friday, as Saturday Neil wants to be free to help Pat move in. Going back to Demongate High, now that we're all "in the trap" it should be interesting to see what our captor has in store for us.

 

Hope you enjoyed your February 2011, because it's gone never to return again. And so am I.