In many years June, you have been one of my favorite months. Not as hot as July, not as cool as May and your pollen counts tend to be pleasingly low. This year though you’ve been a right pain in the but and I’m not all that sorry to see you go. I know, I know it’s not really you, it’s me. I mean after the extra expensive car repairs, the loss of our neighbor’s tree, the 94° heat only on the single Saturday we planned a bike ride, the dental work and the broken eyeglasses; I’m just ready go into July for a fresh start. I’m not sure what I did to piss you off this year, but I hope we can be friends again in 2011.
Category: Life
Sometimes, I feel the need to talk about me (imagine that).
Hey there self! This post is a quick blast from the past, to remind you of something. Namely when you hit the first, nice day in say April or maybe early May; get off your butt and clean those gutters. That way when you get up on the roof, it’ll be much cooler out and the shingles won’t feel like they’re burning through your jeans.
Side note: I hope you’re still liking that sun hat we bought this year. It worked really well keeping the sun off your face while working on those blasted gutters. Too bad it didn’t do anything to keep all the gnats and mosquitoes from pestering us. That one which bit us on the back of the ear is still annoying as all get out, but by the time you should be reading this that nasty, little bite will be all healed up.
Lucky bugger.
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! ^_^
On Sunday, while Shawn Powers and his family were at church their house burned down. While his family was safe; they lost all their pets to the fire. Shawn works for as the Technology Director for a school district in Michigan, sidelines as an Associate Editor at Linux Journal and is a pretty funny guy. The kind folks at Linux Journal have started a ChipIn fund to help Shawn and his family get back on their feet. If you’ve got some spare change in your PayPal account; please think about dropping some of it there. Thanks!
- When you go to pour that first cup of coffee, find your preferred blend has already been brewed and you think “Looks like humanity is safe for another day” …
- When 3 year olds hopped up on pixie sticks have a greater attention span than you …
- When a single blink lasts for over an hour …
- When you’ve had 4 cups of coffee plus a Mt. Dew and your brain still feels slugish …
… there’s your sign.