October 2008 Archives

Burnination

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Last week turned out to be busier than I planned. On Tuesday I finally put up one of the 5 ceiling fans we bought when we moved into the new house back in June. The ceiling fan in the office was looking a little wobbly and with Elanna out of town it seemed like a good time to work on it. Unfortunately, I discovered something about the light as soon as I put it up. It uses candelabra bulbs. In fact all FIVE of the fans we bought use candelabra bulbs. Which was immediately annoying because I didn't have any candelabra bulbs to test the light with so I could tell if I had wired it right or not. I had to stop working on the fan and go buy some. They seem to provide enough light for the office so that was good. I'd already opened one of the other so I'll probably put it up in the spare bedroom but the other 3 are going back to Lowes. Two of them were meant for the game room and the living room and there is no way the little bulbs will provide enough light.

Wednesday I was over and Khuul's working to repair the hole I had to cut in the wall last week so the drain pipe could be fixed. Repairing the hole was actually quite easy, unfortunatley removing the toilet and then putting it back was not easy. I had to disconnect and reconnect the bolts 3 times before they would "catch" and hold the toilet in place. I swear I could build a toilet out of component parts at this point.

Not much else last week except I spent a lot of time playing Fable 2. It's pretty good, but has some annoying features. Like once you get popular the townspeople pretty much mob you anytime you walk in town. Maybe that's just because I'm trying to play a "good" character. I'm sure if I burninated a few villagers they wouldn't do that so much.

That better be the last one

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So yet another plumbing issues at Shady Manor. The drain pipe for the hall bathroom had deteriorated and it looked like it had been that way for a while. With that fix EVERY drain in the house has now been replaced, so hopefully there won't be anymore problems there.

Elanna is out of town right now. She's back home in OK visiting family and friends for a week and attending her high school reunion.

We id a short 20 mile bike ride on Saturday around the airport access road. It really wore me out. I can't believe I'm losing my cycling endurance already. That may have been our last ride of the season as well since it looks like it will turn cold later this week.


I went to see Religulous Saturday, the Bill Mahr movie/documentary about religion. Its far from fairand its not really meant to be, it's meant to be entertaining. I think the un-intended consequence that the movie really showed was that many of the people Bill was trying to get "riled-up" were actually very patient with him and tried to answer his questions about religion. Anyway as a movie or a documentary it wasn't all that compelling. The questions he was asking aren't anything you couldn't get from a freshman level comparative religion course.

Punting

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Well I did a big blog entry yesterday but it was on the RPG blog and not here. Feel free to click through and take a look at that. It's all about D&D. Otherwise uhm look at these pictures, they're neat.

Representation

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Since its election season, and we just moved I started wondering who my elected officials were.

After not a small amount of searching I found this website on the State of Texas web page.

Who represents me?

It lets you put in your address and shows you who is currently representing you at the State and National level. For Grapevine,TX it gave this:

National Senators
Senator Kay Bailey Hutchison
Senator John Cornyn

National Representative
Congressional District 24
Congressman Kenny Marchant

Texas State Senator
Senate District 12
Senator Jane Nelson

Texas State Representative
House District 98
Representative Vicki Truitt


Now that's just for my areas of Texas of course. Interesting note, everyone above is a Republican,(big surprise) but Vicki Truitt doesn't mention that on her webpage. I really had to dig to find out that Vicki Truitt is a Republican.

Writing and Writing

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You'd think now that I'm not in school anymore that I've have more time to update the blog but alas this is not true. I've had to write a lot for work these past two weeks and as always that sucks away at my ability an time to blog. Nothing like writing an "rfp response" or "Service Description Document" to make you want to not write about anything for a while.

The house and senate are still wrangling over the bailout. Most of the folks around here seem to think its a bad idea. I think that's just a emotional response to the fact we are rescuing the goofballs who got us into this mess in the first place. I don't think the bailout is a good solution but right now it's the only one that will work. Otherwise, we are looking at some hard times coming up and a real risk that the economy will not recover for a while.

Elanna and I haven't been up to too much latley. We went for a ride last weekend that was supposed to be a 44 mile ride but turned out to be much longer. About 30 miles in we came to a intersection where there had been a huge wreck. One car had t-boned another one. There were 4 helicopters there. That ended up causing us to go out of our way about 6 miles and then somehow the route ended up being 2 miles longer than what it was mapped out to be, so we ended up doing about 52 miles. That's the longest I've ridden since the MS-150 in May and probably the longest ride Elanna has done ever. Whew! We were pretty tired the next day and just lounged around the house.

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Reading

I just finshed Codelia's Honor by Lois McMaster Bujold which is the first book of the Vorkosigan Saga.
Very good book, but the Sci-Fi bits are really secondary to the story.

Right now I'm reading The Lost Fleet Series by John Hemry/Jack Campbell It's sorta Honor Harrington but not really, though Honor Harrington even goes downhill in the later novels.