What have I been up to?

Well, not a whole lot :) I built a closet thingy for more clothes storage. It still needs the facing put on, the doors, and the side shelves. It also still needs to be sanded & painted/stained. Nevertheless it is in full use, and has been since I got it in that state. I ended up needing to assemble it actually *in* the bedroom, it was too big to fit through the doors. 8' tall, 4' wide, and 2' deep. When I finish, there will be a stack of 2' x 2' shelves, too. I used screws to put it together, so if needed it should be easy to disassemble. Right now I'm just grooving on how it makes the whole house smell like cut wood :)

Last week I went to the Grand Lodge of Tennessee for three days. It was a nice trip. I took the camera, but didn't manage to take any pictures. Go figure. Here's a decent shot of the building, though:


On the way out of town, I we stopped for lunch & Rich met us at the taco joint. I was able to return the favor of some 2" seat springs, since he needed some, I wasn't using them anymore & he gave them to me to begin with. It was a decent excuse to hang out for a bit, anyway. Rich looks funny with hair. I *should* have gotten a pic of that.

Works been about the same. I spent all day at a soap plant, and everything about me was infused with an amalgam of soap perfumes. I suppose it smells ok... at first. Plus when you leave your skin feels slimy & everything tastes like soap. I can't decide which is worse, the perfume or when I have to go past the rendering plant. Yuck.

Well, I squandered another nice day when I should have put the starter on the bike. Starter & turn signals & I can get it inspected & tagged. Before any big trip, though, I gotta replace the fork seals. It's a bugger to do, but I found some instructions on a quicker & easier way to do it. I love google :)

It's almost enough to make me start drinking beer

Take a beer bottle, put a hot chick in a bikini on the bottle. As you drink the beer, the bikini disappears!

Skinny Blonde: website

Times Online article

The Patriot Room article where I first saw it.

Quote of the day

"You know people die all the time from a routine (dental) cleaning!"

-Anonymouse

Nice weather, huh

Not much to say really. Weather's been nice, although it's supposed to start getting nasty again tomorrow. Things have been going great, and I'm really happy. Only bad thing is Cayden being in the hospital again, pancreatitis (sp?). They started him back on broth & jello today, though, so that's good.

Anyway.

Recyclable underwear?

Ingrid Goldbloom Bloch makes some pretty cool stuff out of materials laying around the house. Steel nuts, washers, vinyl plumbing tubing, clamps, coke cans, etc.

Being the pervert that I am, I like the underwear best :)

"The people at the Poison Control Center are really nice."

I found this pretty cool site, Cornered Cat. It's basically a woman in Seattle talking about different issues involving guns, gun safety, guns for women, guns and kids, and kids. The quote I stole for the title is off her Childproof ... Isn't page, subtitled "(Or, the things 5 little boys taught me)". I like it. Neat stuff all throughout her page. She's written for a few firearm magazines, so her pages are typically easy to read, and don't look like, well, like I wrote them :)

I don't know if I trust them...

Sure, they call it "Robots get friendly with humans", but to me it looks more like Terminator. Just don't teach him what a wheel is! If that thing get mobile, it'll take us all out!!!