I kill Hard Drives

I have killed yet another hard drive. I think that I need to pack them in bubble wrap just sitting around to ensure that they don't break apart into atoms. This one, unlike my last one (a minor break) the drive is not reading. Crud! I had all of my music on that thing! Oh, well. I have an old backup, but it isn't the same. Curse me for not buying the $50 case to transfer my music. Curse, curse, curse!!!!

In other news, I found that uploading to flickr is sketchy at best. Bugger! It's like my silly verizon phone ... dropped call. Why, it just decided to do it.

Who visits my blog?

It appears from site meter that mostly those not in the US. Many times, their blog is not in English -- interesting to read and stumble over it. Perhaps my mention of oil or politics makes it found, but what in the world?

Upsetting

has anyone else noticed a lag time between publishing and posting? For me, there's a major lag time. It is upsetting and I wind up submitting things twice.

going through photos

I finally tagged each and every uploaded picture that I had. Yikes! It took 12 hourse to do it all. I'll have more pictures (archival) soon, via the folks who will take their stacks and stacks of photos, label them and I I will scan and upload them. Many oh many, do I need a secretary ... perhaps not a Taggert, like I had mentioned before.

Rude toys, gross candy

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Originally uploaded by Cerpicio.

Cerpicio got these, uh ... treasures from his sister. Why would I encourage my child (ren) to favor these? Hey, kids! It's fun to barf, try it! It'll come in handy when you have severe flu, in that you don't worry about getting ill or the foul taste of partial and post digested food, stomach acid, and mucus stomach lining, as well as contributing to acid reflux.

Hey daddy! Thanks [burp noise -- repeated thirty thousand times]. It's a wonder if the bottoms are shattererd by annoyed parents.

BTW Cerpicio, where, did she say she got these?

Oh, and .... thanks for sharing

Changing tactics

Another day closer to comitting ... time grows short for me to take classes to re-certify my teaching license. Today I was missing a couple of things and in my attempts to find them, I disassembled more of my teaching life things, pushing me more to another field. Vocation change approaching ... probability now 92.6% and increasing.

Driveby chilling

It missed me, but Cerpicio and Paula were doing a driveby and sent me a clear message -- a picture of my car.  I didn't get it though, thanks to Verizon Wireless (decaff?).  They were looking for houses and found a couple of the claims in the fliers to be, well, laughable, like:

 

"beautifl view" of what?  All around were houses and pavement.  There weren't any trees or anything, what could they see ... oh, the barn-shaped shed.  Great!  Anyway, they spent some of Saturday house-hunting.  I hope they found some neat buys!

Phone

Hello, this is debt welcome to You Owe.

 

Hello, debt?  This is [me]; long time user, first time payer. 

 

Great.  To what do I "owe" this pleasure?

 

You see, I was kind of wondering if I could like, not be a payer anymore ... you, know, like, um ... not pay.

 

I don't follow you.

 

I'd like to um, be indebted, that's not bad, but you know, like just never really pay it off.  Could you like transfer my account to that?

 

Um, sorry.  You're telling me that you want to get more debt, spend and pay back nothing?

 

Uh, yeah!  That's just about right.  Gee, I'm glad I called.  You wouldn't believe at what I was told by others.  They just didn't understand.

 

Caller ... caller ... caller!  You can't just overspend and run into debt that you can't pay back.

 

Why not, banks and cards let me do it.

Psychadelic Flinstones

Psychadelic Flinstones
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

picture taken 6:20 pm of a Tivo'd commercial of Flinstone Cereal. It just looks a bit bizare. Regardless of its angle, it's just weird, like Al.

Secret code

Ovaltine
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

Be sure to ... be sure to what? The fate of the world could hang in the balance. I had to figure out the code.

... r - i - n ....

t - i -n - e.

B-e s-u-r-e to d-rink you-r Ovaltine.
I cruddy commercial?!

Worth watching

As always, thing go awry, internet may soon be a pay-only service ... no longer the internet.

 

http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=18042

Dogs with chocolate mustaches

Spilt milk bad, right? Nope! Dogs came running and tearing through the house, tipped the table, knocked over the milk and lapped it up as quickly as possible. It was chocolate milk, so their breaths smelled of chocolate. How odd!

Flat pool

Flat pool
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.
Surveying the mess -- there was only one rational conclusion. The dogs were found wet from deflating the pool. Theis let Charlie play in the tiny pool of remaining water, getting his hair wet, while Keith was sorting out if he had more patches. This was time, he thought, number four for the pool to be bitten.

The culprits may be found here.

Blocking Drive

blocking drive
Originally uploaded by MDH, II.

After a day and a half, you'd think that they would be done, everything clean, clear and finish. Well, they are "done", but the place/street smells like melted polystyreine. There's, what looks like spittle that won't evaporate and of course, the dummies took a long while to finish. Overall ... I'd say I'm not a satisfied customer. Did I get to elect for this Larry, Daryl, and Darryl group to come in? I did not!

All that work and all I got was this smelly street!

What I was missing yesterday, I got today

Noise, noise, noise. Digging, churning ... raising, lowering. Are they making progress .. who knows? I am tired of it though ... more than 8 hours and you're just screwin' around.

Help! We're being oppressed

Day 1, Day 2

House arrest?

I'm done with Iexplorer

I now get little (seven) warnings about moving to safe sites. It makes my browsing impossible. I therefore now use Firefox, as has Monkeyjack, Cerpicio, and Ransackary.

Heading to Platform 9 & three quarters?

pickering2
Originally uploaded by Splashmonkey.

The similarity here is uncanny ... Harry? Harry Potter? Is that a lightning tattoo on your head? Yes. I had sick, sick parents.

Conflict followup

It will be a day long remembered...
It has seen the end of Hillary (or Kerry) and shall soon see the end of the Democratic reliance.
When the voters get wind of this ...
voting has been eliminated

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now the counter-point

It appears that the Republicans have themselves a VP *. VP is hit viscously once, then again out of spite, while other Republicans who tried to enter who gunned down, dying but not dead.


*from Die Hard where the "RV" is a police SWAT tank that's blown apart vindictively with SAMs

conflict

Your sad devotion to the grand old party has not given you clairvoyance to the whereabouts of Bin Laden or key Al Qaida leaders or helped you conjure up rationale behind oil dependance ....
Gasp!
[Grand Old Party member choking life from distractor]
I find your lack of faith ... disturbing

- I know, order changed and things altered, but you got it, right?