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Saturday, July 17 2010 @ 11:09 PM EDT |
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Went for a ride yesterday with a guy that I normally ride with. He's
better than me on a bike in most respects except for jumping. He
climbs better, descends better and is about the same on technical
trails. But yesterady was not his day. Two wipe-outs. The first
one was a hit to his left shoulder by a log he didn't see sticking
out over the trail, knocking him off the ledge we were riding on.
Dented his frame too. Then later he wiped out hitting his same
shoulder on the other side, and knocked the wind out of him. It's
usually me that takes the beating when riding...
Still beats working though.
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Monday, July 12 2010 @ 01:32 AM EDT |
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Sorry about the lack of mailings lately. I've been busy.
Spent today finally fixing the sprinkler system. I've been meaning
to do it since May, but the weather has been such crap that it
wasn't needed. But summer hit this week and the lawn stopped
growing and started turning brown. A week ago I was still having
to mow it every two days.
Anyhow, I replaced all the valves and a bunch of the plumbing around
the valves. The freaking thing was put together by somebody who
was either a misunderstood genius, or a sadist. Actually, maybe
both. It was painful to work on, but after 5 hours of sweating,
cursing, and bleeding (one pipe broke and took a hunk of my middle
finger's flesh with it), it's all working now. Hopefully that will
solve the yearly struggle with getting it working in the spring.
Tomorrow morning we'll have happy lawn and garden.
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Monday, July 05 2010 @ 01:49 AM EDT |
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Happy Independance Day for those of you in the US. For the rest
of you, happy Sunday.
I spent most of today teaching the long grass and daisies along
the fence line and ditch to fear my American friend John (Deere)
and his Swedish buddy Stihl. :-)
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Thursday, July 01 2010 @ 04:06 PM EDT |
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For those of you in Canada, happy Canada Day! For those of you
everywhere else, happy Thursday.
It's rainy and cold here today. Doesn't feel like July.
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Wednesday, June 23 2010 @ 03:21 AM EDT |
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Had a good ride Monday night, but was kinda paying for the long
ride up the fireroad at Tzouhalem the day before :-)
Finished studying for the first of my Oracle exams and wrote it
tonight. Passed it fine, but it was way harder than the practice
exams that were with the study guide I'm using. Hopefully that was
the hardest one. I've been told it is, but you never know. Guess
I'll find out when I do the next one...
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Sunday, June 20 2010 @ 09:00 PM EDT |
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We watched Avatar on blu-ray last night. Now I see what all the fuss
it about with blu-ray. The picture is freaking brilliant (noticibly
so compared to the DVD). I suspect for a lot of movies it won't
make that much of a difference, but for some it really will.
Went for a ride on Mount Tzouhalem today. Looking at the maps of
the trails in the area versus where the GPS says I actually rode
is very confusing. Fun ride though I kept ending back on the fire
road on the way back (rather be on the trails on the way down.)
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Saturday, June 19 2010 @ 02:20 PM EDT |
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Played a round of golf yesterday for the first time in several
months. It was pretty messy. A few good shots and a whole lot of
bad ones. Really should have hit the driving range first.
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Wednesday, June 16 2010 @ 11:58 PM EDT |
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Went to donate blood today. It was my 80th donation. Vampire FAIL.
The 20-something guy who was putting the needle in was a tool. To
start with, he was overly assertive with my arm. No "can we move
your arm a bit this way". He'd just grab it and crank it over. Then
there was his tendency to enjoy rearranging himself. Multiple
times. Maybe he liked me. Maybe he just needed a shower. I don't
know, but I wasn't enjoying the show so much.
Then he put the needle in. Didn't hurt (I was expecting it to), but
as I am watching the hose, I see it's filling really slowly. So I
tell him that I think there's a problem. I'm quite fast at donating
and the hose should have filled up fast. So he pins my arm down and
starts digging around with the needle. For about 5 minutes. While
the blood pressure cuff is still cranked up. Until may arm is blue
and my hand is numb. Finally one of the more senior nurses comes
over tries for a few seconds then tells him that's enough. During
the delay, the blood in the needle had coagulated and she (rightly)
knew there was no way it was going to get better. When she pulled
out the needle that was confirmed in a spectacularly gross fashion.
They are normally pretty great down there and do good work, but
I think he's on my list of people who I won't let jab me with the
donation needle again.
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Tuesday, June 15 2010 @ 01:59 AM EDT |
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Another great day at work. Whee. My ride afterwards rocked though!
http://connect.garmin.com/activity/36940067
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Saturday, June 12 2010 @ 08:05 PM EDT |
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Interesting discovery today. I went out in the truck to get a
video for tonight (it's the wife's truck, so I don't drive it
much. It usually has a trailer attached to it). What I discovered
it that the liquor store next to the video store has wireless
video surveilance cameras that broadcast on the same frequency
and format as the backup camera in our truck. From a block away
the screen started showing the inside of the store. While driving
home I noticed it come on at one other place (showing a tree or
something). It was a weaker signal and only showed for a second.
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I've started putting the intros from the joke mailings onto the site. Like it?
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