Long weekends are nice
Nov. 27th, 2005 10:21 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
greatbearA nice long weekend, fueled by high performance turkey in various forms (traditional on the Big Day, then snack sammiches, sliced in gravy, finger food, then a glorious turkey pot pie). Lots of accomplishments, silliness, sex, shopping, yard work, geekery... in all it was a great four days off.
Saw Goblet Of Fire Saturday night. This installment is a lot darker and more mature than the rest. I also came away feeling that I should have waited for the inevitable three-hour-long "director's cut" than get tripped up by so many obvious missing scenes. It does the series well, though. Unlike some others, I didn't see the big hoopla surrounding Victor Krum. Give him about ten years, more time in the gym and let the facial hair come in, then maybe I will notice. lol
I did the second and final phase of the leaf cleanup in the yard. This has been getting more and more involved as the years progress as the trees I planted have gotten larger and more numerous, more obstacles to work around and dispersal of the couple hundred cubic feet of grass and leaf clippings much more involved. It's done though, and I can concentrate on other things now. Like the somewhat startling sink hole that showed up a few weeks ago in the front yard. I winterized the pressure washers, drained fuel out of things not being used till next spring and rearranged the storage order of all the equipment so the winter stuff is accessible. Snow? Bring it on, babe. I'm so ready.
Spent some time checking out lots of my battery operated instruments and gadgets after discovering that the relatively new batteries that were installed in a rather expensive tachometer/linear velocity meter leaked and destroyed it. I've been encountering this sort of thing more and more lately, as item like remote controls will have severely leaking batteries while still operational. I went around pulling batteries out of lesser used stuff, finding leaking batteries in my E-bow, a clamp-on current meter and one neglected smoke detector (which was still operational!). Meanwhile, the 16 year old CD player remote still has it's original National Hi-Top cells in it, and a Casio calculator I've had since high school has coppertop batteries in it from the Mallory days. It seems that batteries, battery life and the destruction they often wreak is a crapshoot for me.
Picked up a Lightscribe DVD-DL drive for the new monster computer as well as some other goodies for it. The crazy oversized power supply that's been on backorder for it is supposed to arrive tomorrow. Major items remaining for it now are some hard drives, waterblocks, a Soundblaster X-Fi Elite Pro sound card and a pair of Nvidia-based 7800 GT or GTX video cards. I've been jonesing for a new display too. The computer habit for me is worse than being a crack addict.
The trip to the computer store was once again accompanied by my best friend John, a straight buddy of mine who goes back to 6th grade. Even though he is married (as am I, lol), we still manage to find the time to hang out doing stuff. I have another post in the works dealing with my 'coming out', and his place in all of it. Stay tuned. Both of us bought television sets for $9.99 just to say that we bought televisions sets for $9.99 (and give them away as gifts).
I have a big bunch of CDs on my 'wish list'. As the weather becomes teh suck and I find myself indoors more often, I am listening more and more to music and wanting some new stuffs. Problem is, instant gratification is pretty much out as my oddball tastes in music mean that local stores are not gonna have much of what i am looking for. Amazon and CD Baby have been getting a lot of business from me lately.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
ciddyguy has probably had his hands in at least one of my orders.
Well, it's gona be a standard-issue 5-day week with potential for overtime and other irritants. This time of year is always a pain in that respect. Nothing is pleasant at the end of the year. I guess it's time I hit the sack and prepare for the worst.
Saw Goblet Of Fire Saturday night. This installment is a lot darker and more mature than the rest. I also came away feeling that I should have waited for the inevitable three-hour-long "director's cut" than get tripped up by so many obvious missing scenes. It does the series well, though. Unlike some others, I didn't see the big hoopla surrounding Victor Krum. Give him about ten years, more time in the gym and let the facial hair come in, then maybe I will notice. lol
I did the second and final phase of the leaf cleanup in the yard. This has been getting more and more involved as the years progress as the trees I planted have gotten larger and more numerous, more obstacles to work around and dispersal of the couple hundred cubic feet of grass and leaf clippings much more involved. It's done though, and I can concentrate on other things now. Like the somewhat startling sink hole that showed up a few weeks ago in the front yard. I winterized the pressure washers, drained fuel out of things not being used till next spring and rearranged the storage order of all the equipment so the winter stuff is accessible. Snow? Bring it on, babe. I'm so ready.
Spent some time checking out lots of my battery operated instruments and gadgets after discovering that the relatively new batteries that were installed in a rather expensive tachometer/linear velocity meter leaked and destroyed it. I've been encountering this sort of thing more and more lately, as item like remote controls will have severely leaking batteries while still operational. I went around pulling batteries out of lesser used stuff, finding leaking batteries in my E-bow, a clamp-on current meter and one neglected smoke detector (which was still operational!). Meanwhile, the 16 year old CD player remote still has it's original National Hi-Top cells in it, and a Casio calculator I've had since high school has coppertop batteries in it from the Mallory days. It seems that batteries, battery life and the destruction they often wreak is a crapshoot for me.
Picked up a Lightscribe DVD-DL drive for the new monster computer as well as some other goodies for it. The crazy oversized power supply that's been on backorder for it is supposed to arrive tomorrow. Major items remaining for it now are some hard drives, waterblocks, a Soundblaster X-Fi Elite Pro sound card and a pair of Nvidia-based 7800 GT or GTX video cards. I've been jonesing for a new display too. The computer habit for me is worse than being a crack addict.
The trip to the computer store was once again accompanied by my best friend John, a straight buddy of mine who goes back to 6th grade. Even though he is married (as am I, lol), we still manage to find the time to hang out doing stuff. I have another post in the works dealing with my 'coming out', and his place in all of it. Stay tuned. Both of us bought television sets for $9.99 just to say that we bought televisions sets for $9.99 (and give them away as gifts).
I have a big bunch of CDs on my 'wish list'. As the weather becomes teh suck and I find myself indoors more often, I am listening more and more to music and wanting some new stuffs. Problem is, instant gratification is pretty much out as my oddball tastes in music mean that local stores are not gonna have much of what i am looking for. Amazon and CD Baby have been getting a lot of business from me lately.
ciddyguy has probably had his hands in at least one of my orders.Well, it's gona be a standard-issue 5-day week with potential for overtime and other irritants. This time of year is always a pain in that respect. Nothing is pleasant at the end of the year. I guess it's time I hit the sack and prepare for the worst.
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Date: 2005-11-28 04:58 am (UTC)*giggle*
Hope the week treats you better than you expect!
JOhn.
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Date: 2005-11-28 05:01 am (UTC)Glad you got things done. I'm right now trying to get things either taken off the HD's or moved around but am not having too much luck at the moment so will have ta bail tonight. I'm really tired after working my ass off at work.
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Date: 2005-11-28 05:20 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-28 06:44 am (UTC)You tempt me sorely, mister. You tempt me to start making wisenheimer enquiries about compression ratio, open vs. closed chamber heads, duration, overlap, lift and so forth.
The only thing stopping me is that I know you'd be able to answer 'em.
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Date: 2005-11-28 03:18 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-28 03:23 pm (UTC)My sentiments exactly.
BUT...
Date: 2005-11-28 05:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-11-29 05:02 am (UTC)