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Random & Assorted Musings

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

I have been using a plu­gin to auto­mat­i­cally post a sum­mary of my weekly tweets, but that plu­gin stopped post­ing a while back for no rea­son that I can deter­mine. *sigh* So in place of that auto­mated post­ing and because I find I actu­ally have a few semi-random things to say, today I give you my ran­dom and assorted musings.

A good friend of this site has recently become an offi­cially pub­lished author (with a book and every­thing *grin*). Con­grats Cath!

Humans are remark­ably adapt­able crea­tures. Yes­ter­day, I noticed the house felt cold. I checked the ther­mo­stat and found the air temp and dropped to 62° (even though the heat was on and set to 68°). I dug out my copy of Home Improve­ment 1–2-3 and tried to diag­nose the prob­lem. I learned sev­eral things that weren’t the prob­lem, but found noth­ing I could do to cor­rect the sit­u­a­tion. Today I’ve been work­ing from home all day and got used to the cooler tem­per­a­ture with­out real­iz­ing it. At least with­out real­iz­ing it until after I had: an expert come out, tell me the furnace’s igni­tion coil was bad, replace it, charge me a $185 and leave. Then I noticed I was used to the cooler tem­per­a­ture, because all of a sud­den it felt very warm to me.

After five years of mar­ried life, my wife has yet to com­pletely around the bend and kill me. Go Michelle! ^_^ As an anniver­sary present from her to me, I received a ticket to Red Green’s One Man show when it hit Des Moines last week­end. Even bet­ter since she bought the ticket dur­ing IPTV’s Fes­ti­val¹, my show ticket came with a ticket allow­ing me to get a bit of face time with good ol’ Red at a meet-and-greet after the show. The whole evening was, to quote another attendee, “a scream”. Even bet­ter dur­ing the meet-and-greet, I got my copy of Duct Tape Is Not Enough signed!

As for my present to Michelle, I got her exactly what she asked for: a Wii Fit Plus. We’d been inter­ested in it for a while but then got to try it out at a friend’s place and we were rather hooked. It is a rather inter­est­ing way of getting/staying active. I espe­cially like the logging/graphing func­tions in it, so I can eas­ily see how much I’m improv­ing (or not improv­ing as the case may be). Though I do wish it would write notes to the Wii’s mes­sag­ing sys­tem like Wii Sports does. *shrug* Oh well.

¹ Tech­ni­cally, some friends bought the tick­ets and she paid them back for the cost of my ticket. Yeah Cath & Bryon! ^_^