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May 10th, 2008 @ 5.12 pm

This past month I’ve had both my truck and my VW at the condo, which has let me drive it a fair amount. Luckily, I haven’t had any break downs, but the car hasn’t been without hiccups. I spent one evening changing the camber of the front wheels after noticing uneven wear on the tires. I’ve also noticed it’s still throwing oil all over the engine bay after running on the highway for several miles, which I don’t like. Per recommendation of others, last night I changed to 20W50 oil instead of 10W30, hoping the thicker oil will encourage it to stay inside the engine, where it belongs. Last night I also was going to replace a seal where the excess/ reserve brake fluid flows into the master cylinder because it’s slowly leaking. Unfortunately, the shop gave Whit the wrong part, so I’m still left topping off my brake fluid reservoir every month (don’t worry, it’s not dangerous! I know what I’m doing!). Hopefully I’ll be able to get the new seal soon, and my oil leaks will stop. If not, I’ll just have to keep digging…

April 29th, 2008 @ 8.40 pm

Ever read the news? I don’t often because it’s so gloomy. Three murders, a robbery, global warming, rain in the forecast, and the stock market is down. I try not to pay much mind to what news I do hear, but all the recent news about our economy having a tough time is making me worry some. I see that our nation has been outspending one another and gotten into a big financial hole, and rather than fixing the mess, we think we can just walk away. I think it’s starting to catch up with us, and unfortunately it will hit everyone, including those that have followed good financial responsibility. Unfortunately, I fall into that category (or at least I would like to think I do). Read the rest of this entry »

April 13th, 2008 @ 9.26 pm

This evening I volunteered to make dinner, and what a mistake that was. First, I tend towards the one pot style meals. Things such as Hamburger Helper, or “stir fry.” I have to put “stir fry” in quotation marks, because who knows what I’ll make, but it generally tends towards chicken, vegetables, soy sauce and white rice on the side. Tonight I looked through the fridge and freezer, and found a pound of chicken, a bag of frozen bell peppers (pre sliced, ready to serve… after thawing), and a tub of leftover rice. So, from there I started out making a scrambled egg, then cooked the chicken in some veggie oil, and sesame seeds. Not too un-normal at this point. Read the rest of this entry »

April 3rd, 2008 @ 10.42 pm

For anyone that regularly checks out the Gallery section, my website had a glitch that forced me to delete the entire “The Rest” section of my gallery. Therefore, over the next few weeks I’m going to try and rebuild it, but unfortunately every comment was lost, and I’m sure it won’t be rebuilt how it was. I will try my best, but please be patient.

Update 1:
I have located a backup I made of the whole website in late February, and I am attempting to restore the gallery portion. If it works how I expect it to, I will only have to reload the Photo-a-day pictures since then.

Update 2:
The gallery has been re-uploaded from the backup made in late February and it works. Now I just need to upload all the photo-a-day pictures taken since then, and the new galleries I was about to add before the crash.

Update 3:
As of 7:45pm on 4/5/08, I now have the whole gallery re-uploaded, and three new galleries online as well. Now I’m going to make another backup of the whole website, just in case.

March 5th, 2008 @ 12.21 am

Right now life is really serving up lemons. Last week I ended the week in Zebulon, NC, and while I was away my parent’s house was broken into. On Friday I got back to the office at 5pm and spent a couple hours getting ready to fly out to Indianapolis on Monday morning. After a very short weekend (literally), I’m now in Indianapolis and it’s Tuesday night. While I’m stuck here, Beverly’s new (2003) Jetta broke down. It seems like the alternator died today, but I’m hundreds of miles away and can’t do anything, again. Luckily she was near her parents house and with friends, but now she’s borrowing a car from her parents. Rather than me being able to comfort her or look at the car and try to fix it, I can’t. I feel completely useless.

And normally I like snow, but I’m just tired of winter, but there’s about an inch of slush on the ground here. Before the slush was rain that’s been falling since the plane landed yesterday morning. When it rains, it snows. I guess I need to make a snowman?

February 23rd, 2008 @ 10.11 pm

A year or so ago I predicted that we’d get a lot of snow this winter. (Really Long Range Snow Forecast). So far, I’ve been dead wrong. So far we’ve had a total of 8.35″ of snow according to RelayWeather.com. The largest snowfall was 5″ back in December, which was a nice start, but there hasn’t been any follow up. I’m tired of the news saying there’s a chance of some snow in the forecast when all it amounts to is an inch or less. That’s not snow! I wan’t at least a foot, and 18″ would be great. Something that closes work and makes driving impossible (or really fun, depending on how much of a challenge you like).

In other griping, Read the rest of this entry »