That is all…
Toilet Transplant
Why I’m writing about this I’m not entirely sure, other than it’s really the little “wins” that are quite satisfying.
My main think tank was on the fritz. It was getting super bad — The water would keep running after the flush. bad bad. Couldn’t stop it, no matter how much handle jiggling. This is a major trauma for the household. Our master eliminator is just not working right.
So I donned gloves and went in for some exploratory surgery. Come to find out it was the rubber thingy at the bottom that opens and closes when you use the handle and normally closes the tank to let it fill after a flush — It about disintegrated when I took it off of the whatzit.
So I went to the other can in the bedroom, which I never use, turned off the water, extracted it’s rubber thingy, which was still in good shape, and transplanted said thingy to the main, yet now lobotomized crapper.
Viola!!!
I can now poop in peace.
The menu of the night
I had the second to last burger tonight… very appropriate for my day
today… don’t even ask…!!
Is there a joy simpler?
Is there a joy simpler than opening a box of pristine, untouched
crayons? (the big pack with sharpener, of course!).
Progress
You know you are feeling better when your fridge disgusts you and you
finally command yourself to do some Spring cleaning….
Doctor visit of the now
They make everyone wear masks at the doctor office these days…oink oink!
Hangin
Waiting for a more modern day server project of mine to do it’s thing, I decided to play around with Virtual PC and see how old I could go back in PC time. Of course there is always DOS, but that installs fairly easily — although it took me a minute to figure out how to make MSCDEX to work in autoexec.bat & config.sys again!
I’ve previously run a Commodore 64 emulator, and that was nice, but without the software it wasn’t particularly interesting (Anyone remember GEOS?!)
No, the real fun was re-visiting those tried-and-true Windows versions I remember from College. So I whipped out my old CD drawer and what did I find
I know a spy
I have a secret…I know a spy! Really. Okay, maybe not true “Cloak and Dagger” type stuff, but in an industrial way. I bump into Boeing’s “analyst” for Airbus all the time at my local watering hole. We talk aerospace and aviation shop talk. It’s like my dream come true.
We’re enjoying drinks right now…
Shhhh…mums the word. I have no other evidence to support my claim. But then again, if I told you more I’d have to kill you… 😉
Link: July 18, 2009!
Well, it’s finally here! Seattle has come out of the transportation Stone Age and we shall have a light rail system.
http://www.soundtransit.org/x11071.xml
Huge online dust-up
So my online hobby (virtual air traffic controlling — see www.seaartcc.net) just today had major kerfluffle…basically the entire staff of my center quit and accusations are flying everywhere. It’s quite fun drama to be an observer after being on the staff previously. It’s one of the most beaurocratic orgs I’ve worked with. Well, I guess our goal is to emulate air traffic control as in the FAA. In this regard I think we have it nailed 🙂