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Not Looking Good
It’s not looking good at the Brother-in-law moving out on Friday. That has been his deadline for two months. Do you thing he would even look for a place to live? Of course not. If he found a place he would no longer have free rent, free food, free TV, free cable, free water, free party house when we are gone. He has it made, full-time job with 90% of his income disposable.
I am hoping to be able to talk the wife into forcing him out. He could go stay with his aunt. She has two open bedrooms. I am sure she would let him live there for a month. I don’t know how else we are going to get rid of him.
I knew I shouldn’t have gotten my hopes up. Sometimes I wish I wasn’t so nice. I put up with a lot of crap just trying to be nice to people.
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I will Never Buy From a Pushy Salesman
I hate door-to-door salesmen, but I am to nice to tell them to get lost. Yesterday a vacuum cleaner salesman came to our house. It wasn’t Kirby, it was some other company that I have never heard of. It was a really good vacuum cleaner though. I was sold on it within ten minutes. Then the salesman kept going on and on with his sales pitch. The longer he went on the less I wanted it. So I didn’t buy it out of principle. Plus I like to do research on high priced items. He was trying to tell me if I didn’t buy it now I wont get another chance. WTF? Redflag! If someone ever tells you this is your only chance at buying an item walk away. What company wont let you buy a product if you want it? It was a really nice and powerful upright vacuum cleaner, but I think it was grossly overpriced. If it would have been $1000 I probably might have bought it, but it was $3000 or so. The salesman wouldn’t give a specific price. I still want the thing, but I wound never buy anything from a pushy salesman.
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One Year
One year ago today we moved into our new house. It doesn’t feel like we have been here that long already. We still haven’t painted our bathroom yet. That was the first thing we were going to do. We ended up doing a bunch of other things first. I haven’t posted any pictures here yet, mostly out of laziness. I don’t know if anybody really wants to see house pictures anyway. Oh well, I am off to work tonight for another long weekend at work. Fun stuff.
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Cleaning up Cables
I have been working on cleaning up the mess of cables underneath my desk the last couple of weeks. I eliminated two computers, both of them were pretty old. One was my emulator box that I used to when I wanted to re-live my childhood. It had all of my old console games on it. Those will be moving to my main Windows machine. The other computer that I got rid of was my Ubuntu system. I inherited my wife old laptop, and that has become my new Ubuntu system. Since I am down to two desktops, I also eliminated my KVM switch. I got a super small Apple bluetooth keyboard and a wireless mouse for my Mac. They sit on top of my desk, but can be moved out of the way if I don’t need them. My other keyboard and mouse sit on my keyboard try. So I eliminated two computers and a bunch of cables, but I still have four computers sitting at my desk, but two are laptops now.
To further clean of the cabling, I moved the routers, NAS, and cable modem to the closet. I just had to drill a whole in the wall and run the cables through our crawl space. I stapled some of those foam pipe insulators to the studs and ran the cables though them. It worked awesome, and looks super clean.
I should have taken some before pictures. It still looks like a lot of cables, but it’s way cleaner that it use to be.
I am going to try and build a Windows Home Server with some of the leftover parts, and I will eventually take a bunch to recycling. I still have the very first computer I built sitting in my closet. I am kinda attached to it, but a 350 MHz Pentium II isn’t really worth a thing.
Soon I will be upgrading my two CRT monitors. I am eyeing some 22″ LCDs on Newegg. Once I get them, my old janky setup should be totally awesome.
Normally I am not a pack rat, but when it come to computer parts I kinda am. I have four computer cases fill with miscellaneous junk and three old monitors in my closet right now.
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Sick of Being Sick
I had all sorts of stuff to blog about going into the weekend. Then I got sick, and slept the whole weekend. Now I got nothing. I’m still a little sick and sleeping more than I am use to. Another couple days, and I should be back to normal, or as normal as I get that is.
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Motion City Anniversary
So yesterday was our eighth wedding anniversary. We were married in 2000, so it’s easy to figure out. Our favorite band so happened to play in town yesterday also. It was our sixth or seventh (I kinda lost count) time seeing Motion City Soundtrack. This was the first time that they were actually headlining. We got right up front. The wife hates crowds, so the front is the best place. She doesn’t have to see all the people that way. We both had a great time. She was snapping pictures like crazy. She took around 90 or so, but most of them are the usual low light lots of blur pictures, but she did get a handful of good ones. After the concert we were picking up our t-shirts and Justin Pierre, lead singer of Motion City Soundtrack just happened to be hanging out there. The wife got his autograph and I took a picture of her with him. It was a pretty memorable anniversary, and I can’t wait to see Motion City again. I just can’t get enough of them. -
Hammock
For most of the summer we have been looking for some kind of lawn chairs for the yard. We have a table and chairs on the deck, but nothing in the yard. Two weekends ago we decided to get a hammock. Since we have only one tree in our yard we needed a stand for the hammock. We looked all over town and couldn’t find one, so I ordered one online. It came this weekend, so we also bought a hammock for it this weekend. Who knew a hammock would cost so much. It was close to $200 for everything. It’s supper comfy though. I am looking forward to actually having time to lay in it. -
Blocked Porn
So I was looking at my browser history and I noticed my Brother-in-law was browsing porn last night. He was only on one site, so I blocked it. It’s not that I am against porn, I just don’t like the thought of him spanking it in my computer chair. He never use to use my computer, but now that the wife has her laptop we took down her desktop. Her computer was the one his usually used. I am pretty anal when it comes to my computers. I don’t like other people messing with them. He sure as hell better not get my computer infected with any spyware. He is supposedly moving out August 1st. I am keeping my fingers crossed.
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Day Off
Today I finally get a day off of work. I work 12 hour shifts at work, so usually three days is the most I ever work in a row. Because of people taking vacations, I ended up working five days in a row. Pretty much all I have been doing it working and sleeping. I am looking forward to the check next friday though, 20 hours of overtime will be a nice little chunk of change. Now time to get caught up on my RSS reading and podcast listening.
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Moved from Twitter to FriendFeed
Some social networks I get, others I don’t. I never could understand MySpace or Facebook. Twitter on the other hand, I fell in love with it right away, and it sucks when it, or some of it’s features goes down. FriendFeed was a service that I understood, but it always seemed to cluttery and noisy for me. This past weekend I just got fed up with all of Twitters problems and I decided to take the plunge to FriendFeed full time. I am really starting to like FriendFeed, and the cool thing is that it actually works.
A few weeks ago Dave Slusher blogged about his process of moving from Twitter to FriendFeed. I pretty much followed his plan. I used Kreg Steppe’s PHP script to help find my Twitter friends on FriendFeed, and then I just made imaginary friends for my Twitter friends that weren’t on FriendFeed. Then I signed up for a TwitterFeed account, and am using it to send my FriendFeed updates back to twitter. It took a while to get all my friends over, but I am really loving FriendFeed now.