Sultan picked me up yesterday morning and we drove in the storm to the Nederland plant. There, we spent all morning and part of the afternoon trying to get my DDE client program to retrive data from the GMaxC system. Finally, after making a phone call to the right person, we got it working. We then had a late lunch at Red Lobster in Beaumont.
I left my flash drive plugged in to the back of the computer there. But I got out with a postit pad and pen that I didn't go in with.
I was going to go in to the office today (though I normally work from home on Thursday) because I wasn't there yesterday, but this morning's weather convinced me to stay with my usual Thursday schedule.
My 30-year high school reunion is Saturday evening in Beaumont. I always debate whether I really want to go to these things, and th only one I've convinced myself to go to was the 10-year reunion. It wasn't really worth going to, and I vowed never to drag Jacquelyn to another one, but I have enough of the curiosity bug to think that I might like to see some people. However, Kaylynn had the good foresight to plan her wedding for the same day, so I don't have to debate the issue — I have something better to do.
The incessant rain
On the Coastal Plain
Is driving me insane.
Hot and humid is the air,
Mushrooms growing everywhere,
Fuzzy wuzzy had no hair.
I'm not enough of a nerd to hang with the real geeks. Programming is an art for me, and a job, but I don't do it when I get home. Once in a while, though, I do something to keep current my third-class geek credentials. The following image won't mean anything to most of you.
A few of you will be excited, though, that I have the proxy service up on my linux box at home, and can read Yahoo! mail and watch an occasional YouTube video at work, having routed the data through my house. Okay, maybe only two of you.
The configuration instructions are here, but I also had to set the "visible_hostname" variable. To celebrate, I'm having a Baby Ruth.
The word geek is a slang term, noting individuals as "a peculiar or otherwise odd person,especially one who is perceived to be overly obsessed with one or more things including those of intellectuality, electronics, gaming, etc."[1] Formerly, the term referred to a carnival performer often billed as a wild man whose act usually includes biting the head off a live chicken, bat, snake or bugs. Which meaning are you aspiring to attain. :)
SQUID according to websters-- any of several ten-armed cephalopods, as of the genera Loligo and Ommastrephes, having a slender body and a pair of rounded or triangular caudal fins and varying in length from 4–6 in. (10–15 cm) to 60–80 ft.
You have taken it to an all new level!
I will have to show this to geek husband, who, first, will explain it to me, and second, will tell me if he can help me access blocked sites at my workplace...a public school. Pleonast is one of my blocked sites.
They got married Aug. 5th in North Carolina...they were planning on getting married next May, but decided to go ahead before Blake left...thanks for your prayers!
We drove over to M & T Auto Repair and dropped the Saturn off last night.
No, wait, not that Saturn. A Saturn V might be amusing, but I can't afford the fuel, and there's no place to park it at the office. Landing is a bit tough, as well, because it requires a large body of water.
The air conditioner on the Saturn SL1 had been not quite right since last fall. When idling (at a light or in stop-and-go traffic) it would cycle on and off. It turns out the problem was the condenser fan. (I didn't see the condenser fan, and was convinced that the radiator fan wasn't working, even though the car never overheats.)
The biggest puzzlement is how to decide whether a word ends in "or" or "er". Why is it "condenser" instead of "condensor"? If it should be "er", then why is "radiator" correct and "radiater" wrong? Both words mean "a thing that..." -- a thing that condenses refrigerant, a thing that radiates heat. In fact, they're both heat exchangers. (Perhaps one is a "heat exchangor".) "Or" for one and "er" for the other seems illogical.
Anyway, the repair is about $264, and it makes me happy. It isn't that I like paying for repairs, but rather that this is only the second under-the-hood repair on this car, which I've owned for 5-and-a-half years, in which time it has gone from 46,000 miles to 150,000. The first repair cost $68.
I have also had to replace the driver's side power door lock switch (which I did myself), and I had the headliner replaced and the sun visors recovered ($140). At the moment, the control that switches the vents from the floor for heat, to the dash, to the windshield, is broken. I suppose I'll get that fixed sometime, but it currently blows mostly from the dash with a bit on the floor, which is not unacceptable. Brakes, tires, oil changes, and fuel have been the only other expenses.
What else isn't working? The rear speakers. That's all I can think of. It's good to know that I've made one wise purchase in my life.
Perhaps, but I get scared behind the camera. I've always preferred just audio/radio to video/tv. Writing is okay too, but sports-broadcasting would have been my career had I not chosen preaching.
:) i had the "Catalonian Meatballs w/ pan juices and mased potatoe" ! Delicious! BUT next time I think I'll go for some Lupe Tortilla, where I know I'll get a LOT of food for a lot less moula! not that the portions were small, it's just a little pricey comparatively speaking.
Maddie will begin studying grammar this year in 4th grade. The workbook that she has been doing this summer to prepare her has begun the grammar assignments. I am having to start thinking about grammar rules more closely. With the math pages, I could just check the work myself. With the grammar pages, I sometimes check the back of the book to make sure that I am correct.
We have 160k plus on our 2000 Montana still runs good but there is a lot of road noise and plastic cracks, you know things that bother you daily which leads you to think the vehicle is falling apart. My civic is still tight.
I remember we were on vacation and out in the New Mexico desert we saw a speed limit sign that said 75 (or 80). Jenna made me pull over and let her drive!
The speed limit from San Antonio to Laredo on I35 is 75 during the day, which is nice because that is THE MOST BORING DRIVE IN THE WORLD, and it's ~140 miles.
NEWARK, N.J., Aug 14, 2008 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Three hydrogen-powered automobiles from makers Honda, Hyundai and Toyota, part of the Hydrogen Road Tour, made a stop at Air Liquide's Delaware Research and Technology Center for a hydrogen refueling. The Hydrogen Road Tour convoy is traveling from Maine to California to build awareness among elected officials and the public of the readiness of vehicle technology and of hydrogen as a safe, efficient and environmentally-friendly transportation fuel.
The Hydrogen Road Tour, a coalition of the U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Department of Energy, the California Fuel Cell Partnership and the National Hydrogen Association, hopes to build support across the country for the creation of a nationwide infrastructure to fuel hydrogen-powered vehicles.
Electric motors are wonderful! They provide peak torque from zero rpm, which gives new meaining to "jackrabbit starts". A few years from now, the word "hybrid" may be associated with performance cars rather than economy cars.
When the Disney/Pixar movie "Cars" came out a couple of summers ago, a CD (not the soundtrack) came out with some fun car-related songs. (Fast Tracks) One of the cuts is "Hot Rod Hybrid". The lyrics are humorous!
Bagpipe practice...I can't wait to learn, but I put if off because I didn't want to contaminate my chanter with my sick germs. But, I plan to start this weekend :)
Actually, the fuel/electric car is behind the time. Railroad locomotives have been working on that principle for over 50 years. However, Dad once taught me the rule of "counting the cost". My Honda Odessey gets about 25 mpg. I can put a lot of 4 dollar a gallon gas in it for what a hybrid would cost.
There is a "yard" on the west side of 45 headed south from here that has a whole bunch of classic junkers parked there. I turn my head every time I drive by it!
I was surprised by the spray paint. We actually studied them during a Modern Art section of Art History. In those photos they were entirely painted white.
Just read through your Romans 14 post, and I've found the exact same thing--that somehow we don't notice there are TWO commands: don't judge to one, don't despise to the other. Well put, and I appreciate your effort (and your risk of being judged and despised yourself).
