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I did something really stupid.
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Apr. 29th, 2008 @ 10:26 pm
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Today I had to take a test so I could be considered for a county job that doesn't exist yet. (Long story.) It lasted about two hours during which time I had nothing to eat. Now, I did have a snack before I left, so I thought I'd be okay.
I was wrong.
About half way or two thirds, I'm not really quite sure, I started feeling funny. My stomach was growling and my fingers felt tingly like they were falling asleep. The test itself was pretty easy, but getting through it sure wasn't with the discomfort my body was going through.
By the time I finished the test my elbows ached and my legs felt like jelly. My head felt kinda wobbly, too. There was no way I was going to drive in that condition but what was I to do? I needed to find a vending machine and hope for something edible.
Well, there was one that offered lemonade, but that item was sold out. I went for a pop instead. First item on the ingredients list: high fructose corn syrup.
Hoo-boy. I drank just enough to feel semi-normal and then drove home.
I am so going to pay for that. Actually, I think I already am. Headache and some nausea to be precise. It's actually a little like a hangover without the fuzzy tongue.
From now on I line my pockets with me-friendly snacks. ~.~Current Mood:  hungover Current Music: (watching Forensic Files) |
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Ayiiiiiiii!
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Apr. 10th, 2008 @ 09:04 am
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I got a rather nasty surprise when I came back to the apartment yesterday. I'd been visiting my folks and only got back around 9pm. Of course, it was really quite dark by that time.
It was even darker in the apartment because the lights weren't working. Odd.
The TV, too. And the clocks...
No power! AAAA!!!
And the landlord didn't answer when I knocked (pounded) on his door. No answer on his phone. Help!
My Mom got a rather frantic call right about then.
TheresnopowerinmyapartmentandthelandlordisntansweringthephoneandIdontknowwhattodo!
I was about to leave to get batteries for my flashlight when the landlord called. He was as surprised as I was to find that there wasn't any power, but nowhere near as panicky.
He got there in a few minutes and checked things over. The microwave still worked but it, the fridge, and the stove were on a different breaker. He and his girlfriend spent a good hour plus trying to figure out what the heck was going on. I was even offered a beer.
Yeah. I needed that. Don't know how anyone can get drunk on beer, though. I can't drink very much before the bitterness starts getting to me. Now something sweet like hard cider, *that* would be all too easy to get drunk on.
Funny thing is, the lights were out in the boiler room, too. I think I counted a total of three breaker boxes that were checked and rechecked without success. Weird.
There was one other box, but it was in the apartment next to me and the landlord couldn't get in because the tenant changed the locks and didn't give the landlord the new keys.
In case you're wondering, yes, that's illegal. I don't think that tenant is going to be living there much longer.
So the landlord gave me a big flashlight and an extension cord so I could plug the TV into the microwave's outlet.
This morning he showed up at 7:30 with the electrician. The power's back on.
I may never know what happened.
Best landlord I've ever had.Current Mood:  awake Current Music: none |
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And now a vent.
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Jan. 16th, 2008 @ 05:11 pm
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To those who use Minnesota Highway 29: I am going 55 miles per hour, so quit passing me!
This is not the Autobaun! There is a speed limit and it is 55 miles per hour. I should probably be going slower than that this time of year what with ice and all.
You want to go 70, fine. GET ON THE FREAKIN' FREEWAY!
One of the most annoying things about driving.Current Mood:  annoyed Current Music: (watching Cold Case Files) |
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There must be something I can talk about...
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Jan. 7th, 2008 @ 11:43 am
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Been a while since I posted something other than a manga review, hasn't it?
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Though, really, there hasn't been much to report other wise. (Sad, very sad.)
I'm still unemployed. Still trying valiantly and fruitlessly to find employment. There are a couple of possibilities, but I have no idea if anything will come of them.
And I'm getting next to no help from Vocational Rehabilitation. I am this close to screaming.
A few days ago I had a really good feeling about the new year. Now I'm not quite so sure. The tedium of filling out applications with no guarantee of success hit me, I guess.
Well, nothing for it but to keep on plugging.Current Mood:  bored Current Music: none |
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AAAAAAIIIYAAAA!
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Nov. 30th, 2007 @ 09:08 pm
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I am slowly going mad.
I am desperately trying to find anything I can on two men from the Warring States Period of Japan. One is Oda Nobunaga, who sounds like a real character. Finding info on him isn't too hard. Finding info that doesn't look like it was copied with little regard to copyright laws is something else.
Ah, the joys of internet research.
I am starting to hate the local library right about now.
You'd think they'd at least have a few biographies of 16th century Japanese warlords.
Anyway... right.
The other guy is someone called Kamiizumi Nobutsuna. Or Kamiizumi Ise-no-kami Nobutsuna. Or, well, you get the idea.
This is, aside from having a lot of names he seems to something of a footnote in Japanese history.
Oh, yes, he did start a new kenjutsu school, Shinkage ryu, based on Zen philosophy and teachings of the Chinese militarist Sunzi. He also invented the shinai so that students could pummel each other with fluid motions without risking grave physical injury. And despite being a samurai and a warrior he somehow managed to die of natural causes at the age of 70.
Besides that and a very interesting story involving a hostage and a couple of riceballs there really isn't all that much on him.
There's even less about the school he started. It's hard enough trying to find out anything about his star pupil and successor (who, in a state of severe arrogance, renamed the school by adding his own name to the beginning), but find anything out about the founder? Yeah right!
Books about him? None that I could find. The most I found was on Amazon, and that was a paragraph or two in three history books.
I think I may scream.Current Mood: annoyed Current Music: (watching Stargate Atlantis) |
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Stupidity and Water Treatment
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Nov. 26th, 2007 @ 04:29 pm
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Okay, I just finished watching a documentary on the criptospuridia (sp?) outbreak in ... Oh crud I forgot the name of the city. It was on the shores of Lake Michigan, as I recall. (Really bad with names.)
Anyway, I won't bore/disgust you with the details but there was one bit that caught my attention particularly.
After the outbreak that city started using ozone rather than chlorine to sanitize the water because that's the only way to get rid of the parasite (aside from boiling the water, which I suppose is cumbersome for the volume of water run through every hour).
That city is now the only city in America to use ozone to filter water.
Why? What is so great about using chlorine?
Let me give you a run down of my thoughts on the subject:
1) Chlorine is toxic. Chlorinated pools always give me pink-eye and usually an upset stomach.
2) Chlorinated water tastes nasty.
3) Did I mention that chlorine is toxic?
Seriously, why don't we just give up on chlorination as a really bad idea and use this ozone filtering thing? To me it seems like the choice between bleach and vinegar in cleaning. Vinegar kills just as many nasty bugs and things and doesn't have the toxic effects on the user. (Unless your Kittenlark, vinegar smell makes her nauseous.)Current Music: (watching Forensic Files) |
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A little nugget of history.
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Nov. 23rd, 2007 @ 03:38 pm
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Okay. I'm really fed up with people making the Catholic Church out to be some big bad bogy out to destroy everyone who doesn't agree completely with what they say.
I just read some of the manga Hellsing and it started out kinda cool. Until they introduced some Catholic priests who didn't care one wit that people were dieing in a Protestant country. One of them even acted like they halfway deserved it.
(Out of the three vampire centered series I've run into two of them have a negative portrayal of the Catholic Church. The other hardly even mentions any religion.)
Anyway, that reminded me of something that happened at Valleycon. (By the way, I will get the pictures scanned in at some point. There aren't very many, though, because my camera wasn't working.)
Somebody went off about how oppressive the Catholic Church was. I tried to say that it wasn't like that. That most of the negative things committed in the Church's name were done by over zealous secular leaders who were even told by the Church that what they were doing was wrong.
He said that wasn't so and proceeded to say that the Church started a war on all non-Catholics by excommunicating them. He also said that he seemed to recall that the war in question was the Hundred Years' War.
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Uh, reality check?
One, I do believe that would be about the time that the Church declared that Protestants couldn't receive Communion in a Catholic Church. That's hardly excommunication though, since the people in question don't belong to the Church in the first place. It's more of a declaration of policy than anything else.
Two, his attributing the start of the Hundred Years' War to that policy has bothered me ever since. As I recall that war was another spat between England and France and had little if anything to do with religion.
A little quick checking, and I found The History Learning Site's page on The Hundred Years' War. According to this, the war got started as a land dispute and a disagreement over who should be king of France.
Incidentally, I was wrong about the dates. The time is a little early for the Protestant Reformation and since Edward III was king of England, it was well before Henry VIII turned the country Protestant.
I was able to find a bit that mentioned civil war between Swiss cantons as a result of conversion to Protestantism, but that was more on a local politics level than having anything to do directly with the Catholic Church. Reference From the University of California, Santa BarbaraCurrent Mood: annoyed Current Music: none |
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Danny Phantom cancelation
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Oct. 12th, 2007 @ 07:10 pm
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Okay, old news, but it's a good show and I don't see why they had to cancel it. I mean, Danny Phantom is one of the few Nicktoons I actually watch. (Martin Mystery and Avatar being the other two, though some of the old Nick Jr. shows were fun, like Little Bear and Franklin. I think Gnomes used to be on Nick Jr. too, though I haven't seen the show in over 15 years.)
Anyway, why did they cancel it? And even if they did have to cancel it, couldn't they put it on DVD? And I don't mean multi-series compilations where you have to deal with SpongeBob Square Pants, CatDog, and who knows what other shows. I'm talking just Danny Phantom, in order, collected on DVD.
Speaking of in order, someone really should tell someone at Nick that the show is sequential. And there are more than five episodes. Really. Most times I check the schedule they're playing one of a very small bundle of episodes. Maternal Instincts, Life Lessons, Mystery Meat, and Million Dollar Ghost are the most common. Sheesh, these are good episodes but I know there are episodes I haven't seen that they don't seem to want to show.
Like Memory Blank. I really want to see that episode. I've only seen the last five minutes of it. The last five minutes!!
I really like the series ending hour special. And it probably wouldn't have been made if they didn't cancel the show. Still, I really wish the series had continued. How many shows are there that have real good moral lessons without turning super preachy? And it's got ghosts and super powers! How cool is that?!Current Mood: aggravated Current Music: watching How To Survive |
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My life is not boring.
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Oct. 11th, 2007 @ 02:23 pm
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Let's see...
Still unemployed. Signing up with the local Workforce Center's Vocational Rehabilitation Services to see if that'll help (apparently ADD counts as a disability). Computer went on the fritz. Couldn't update Mary Quite Contrary. Developed a huge back log of inked drawings to scan in. Thought I was going to move out after the weekend. Scheduled cable service transfer with that in mind. Found out that my landlord got the flu and move would be later in the week, maybe. Tried to contact cable company and thought I might have gotten date transfer but the person I was talking to was so unintelligible that I could hardly tell. Got computer back and had to reinstall everything. Something is still acting funny. Internet access gets cut early and I have to contact cable company again to get it straightened out. Nearly didn't move in time because landlord still under the weather. No TV or internet access for 9 hours (the horror). Get up early to let cable guy into new apartment. Started moving stuff in while waiting for Mom and Kittenlark to show up and help with furniture. Try to figure out where to put furniture. Nearly wrench out wrist and other vital joints. DVD player doesn't seem to be working.
And that's what the last two weeks have been like.Current Mood:  exhausted Current Music: watching TV |
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House Plant Trouble
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Sep. 11th, 2007 @ 10:31 am
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I just bought a venus fly trap yesterday. This morning it's all wilty.
My cayenne peppers are wilting and shedding their leaves.
And my watercress has definitely seen better days.
All I want to do is grow some plants! Is that too much to ask??Current Mood: aggravated Current Music: road work outside |
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I watch crime documentaries. A lot of them. Cold Case Files, New Detectives, stuff like that.
I don't pay much attention to the news, but when I do it's often something bad.
There's one thing I don't understand. The push against tracking criminals.
Here's what I think. If you kill someone, if you rape someone, if you terrorize someone, if you otherwise cause grave physical/psychological harm to someone, you should pay for it for the rest of your life. It should haunt you, because it will haunt your victims and their families.
People like this should be locked up for the rest of their lives. If not that then they should be tagged so their every move can be tracked. We're already putting GPS tags in dogs and cats, why not human predators?
Whenever someone like this moves into a community the local police should be notified. The event should be in the local paper, front page if possible. People who live in the area should know they have someone like this as a neighbor.
Rapists usually rape again if released. It makes no sense to let them loose. I think they should be pulled from society on the first offense and never released.
Sep. 6th, 2007 @ 05:48 pm
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Well, the updater seems to be working again. For now, anyway.
Ah. Now I have to get all the back log done. The bug I caught yesterday didn't help. (Kinda hard to deal with anything in a paper medium when you're sweating like a pig.)
And in case anyone starts worrying, I'm fine. It was probably something bacterial since my temp only spiked yesterday and it went back to normal this morning. (This morning being Saturday.)
So MQC should be back on schedule sometime in mid September. Just in time for ValleyCon. Oi.
Sep. 1st, 2007 @ 11:25 pm
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Seems ComicGenesis is having some more issues with their updater. So nothing I've added to the comic since last month has gotten online. (Not that I've added much, what with the move and everything. Yes! I'm in an apartment! No! I'm unemployed again! Long story.)
So, I'm posting the comics here until things get sorted out. Which is going to be soon, I hope.
I'll have more soon. Possibly. Once I find the line art. (I know I packed it around here someplace.)
Aug. 29th, 2007 @ 07:20 pm
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Boy, things have been crazy.
Let's see... well, the fair went off quite well except I didn't go on any rides. I have issues with dizziness and heights (particularly when I'm held upside down). If only I wasn't too big for the merry-go-round.
Oh well, at least I got to see lots of cute animals. A young horse kissed me, or tried to eat my nose, I couldn't quite tell. And I sang karaoke! That was a lot of fun.
I also tested out the raft I made. I didn't get to go on Hoboken Creek, but at least I had fun on Fairy Lake. (I always thought it was neat having a lake with that name so close to home.) Unfortunately, there was a leak in the inner tube, so I had to get it patched later. Thank goodness it didn't sink while I was on the lake! I saw some very pretty water lilies. Yellow ones. They have kind of a plasticy look to them.
My computer is on the fritz again. I'm really wondering if it's worth the trouble or if I should just get a new one. Of course, having a job would be nice to so I can pay for a new computer. But repairs also cost money. AAAAA!!!
So that's been my last couple of weeks. I can't update Mary Quite Contrary until I get my laptop back. This is quite annoying.
But overall, things have been going rather well. Now if we could just get some rain to break the drought.
Aug. 3rd, 2007 @ 12:51 pm
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I thought of titling this "The Legend Continues" instead, but 'saga' sounded better. Guess it's my Scandinavian heritage.
Anyway, Windows Movie Maker won't save *anything* now. I tried a clean boot, but I got an access denied error saying I'd have to log on as an administrator.
I **AM** the administrator, you $*#)(&%^#*(#(@*&% machine!
So then it tried to restart but got stuck at a DOS screen. After a couple of tried I realized the printer was on. I turned it off and start up went about as smoothly as usual. (Don't get me started.) But then I couldn't get it out of clean boot. Finally figured that one out, but now everything loads and it takes forever (as usual) for the boot process to stop. And it still whirs all the time.
Not only that, but now all the folders are marked "read only". I unchecked the box and clicked apply then exited properties. When I checked properties again the read only box was checked again!
And the really weird thing is that I can modify and add files in those folders just fine. Except for the video files.
GAAAAA!
Then I turned the printer back on and the stupid thing tried to install itself. After that when I tried to scan something into Photoshop I only got a super basic scan window with no options for color balance, resolution, contrast, or anything!
And I still haven't figured out what happened to the volume control.
After this tirade, the result I got from this Fruits Basket quiz will probably be no surprise:
Omae wa dochira juunishi no MEMBAA desu ka?
[koyasunomiko.com]
I also took a Bleach quiz:
Who's Your Bleach Boyfriend?
Hosted by theOtaku.com: Anime. Done right.
Uryu might be a little too, ah, sullen for me. Then again, Ichigo might be worse, and I was kinda hoping for him.
Jun. 24th, 2007 @ 06:42 pm
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This stupid thing has been a pain and a blessing from the day I got it. More and more, it's becoming a solid pain.
I performed a standard, shouldn't-cause-any-problems system clean-up. And found out that the volume control had disappeared. Again.
Not to mention the little buttons next to Start on the taskbar. And, for reasons I simply do not understand, Internet Explorer and Windows Media Player disappeared and had to be reinstalled, several times. I wouldn't have bothered, except certain things don't work well if they aren't on. Including Windows Movie Maker, which is weird since WMM can't be uninstalled but WMP can.
Speaking up uninstalling... There's a zip drive I used to use but don't anymore because it broke. How, I don't know. Anyway, I thought I uninstalled it. Except there was still a folder for it under Programs. And I couldn't delete the folder because some .exe file was "in use".
Say what?
Anyway, I got rid of what I could and most recently I've been trying to eradicate the traces in the registry. But I started running into errors and the stupid thing even tried to reinstall!
Not only that, but there are pieces of programs I had uninstalled long ago that are still in the registry.
And WMM has been on the fritz. A lot. I can barely work on it for five minutes without it encountering some fatal error and having to shut down. That even happened with Photoshop when I was trying to save one of my comics. Only with Photoshop I didn't get an error message or anything. It just vanished in the middle of naming the document.
AAAAARGH!
Then there was the time Firefox wouldn't open and every html file I have came back as 'could not be found'.
Or the times Windows Explorer crashed.
Or all the various times I've had difficulty uninstalling software. The times mentioned above are not the only times this happened.
This thing is getting way to buggy for use, but if I bring it in to be fixed I'll not only be out of a computer for an extended period of time, but the bill will likely be in the hundreds.
I almost might as well get a new computer, but I don't have the income to justify it. (Heck, I don't have an income, period.)
I've even had trouble with ZoneAlarm, and that's a pretty stable piece of security software as far as I've been able to figure.
And don't even get me started on the battery. That effectively died a few months after I got the thing. I can only use it in the vicinity of a power outlet because the battery will last, at best, for half an hour.
And I can't leave anything hooked up through the USB ports on start up because it'll freeze on looking for a boot record. This is the only computer I've run into that does that.
Not to mention that I still haven't gotten a replacement for the CD/DVD drive that died on me. I'm using a 'temporary' drive that doesn't quite fit in the hole. So I have to do a lot of fiddling to get it open and closed.
I am never again buying a computer from a no-name distributor. From now on I'm going with Gateway.
Jun. 20th, 2007 @ 01:02 pm
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Now I'd like to think that I like the environment as much as the next person. Hey, some of my favorite places are out in the forest with nothing but the birds and the wind for noise.
Beyond that, I also like to save money, so something that helps the environment and saves a buck or two is okay by me.
So these fluorescent bulbs sound like a really great idea, right?
Well, there are a couple little problems with that.
One is that, in our house anyway, the bulbs simply don't fit into the sockets. We use standard 60 watt bulbs, so I doubt that there's anything unusual about our light sockets.
The second has to do with safety.
A woman named Brandy Bridges dropped a fluorescent bulb, which broke. This sort of thing can happen with any bulb, and when it happens with your old standard incandescents all you need to worry about is sweeping up the mess.
Not so here.
You see, fluorescent bulbs contain mercury. The same stuff that's in thermometers and other such devices. It's also a serious poison.
So when Ms. Bridges broke that bulb, she called the store she got it from which then directed her to Poison Control, which in turn directed her to the Maine Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the Department of Environmental Protection.
Some people came out to check out the house and found, whatdoyaknow, elevated levels of mercury on the carpet where the bulb broke.
The room was sealed off and Ms. Bridges told that she shouldn't clean it up herself and that proper disposal would cost about $2,000.
Her insurance wouldn't cover even a small portion of this because mercury is considered a pollutant.
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This would be simply a cautionary tale to handle fluorescent bulbs with extra care, if at all, except for one little detail.
Officials then started saying that the bulbs are harmless and that people can clean up breaks like this themselves.
Personally, I think this later statement is more accurate. Remember the thermometers I mentioned earlier? Well, they contain a lot more mercury than these light bulbs. "500 and 3,000 milligrams of mercury, depending on its size" for a thermometer compared to "between 1 and 25 milligrams of mercury" in the fluorescent light bulbs. (According to The Ellsworth American article Fluorescent Bulb Break Creates Costly Hassle.)
I don't know how many of you still use those old thermometers, or remember when you did use them, but like so many other things they sometimes break. One time our thermometer broke while I was taking my temp. I think I bit down too hard. Anyway, there was glass and mercury all over the floor. Luckily, none got in my mouth because when I heard the glass crack I opened my mouth and the whole kit-n-caboodle fell out.
Anyway, the mercury was pretty easy to get up. It rolled into a ball about the size of a normal ball bearing. Mom got the mercury in a jar and let me keep it in my 'lab.' Actually, it used to be a none-too-well thought out darkroom for the previous owners of the house.
I think that jar is still in there somewhere.
We may have broken several laws cleaning up that mess ourselves, but no harm came of it. Granted, it was linoleum and not carpeting, but I'm pretty sure most city garbage dumps have proceedures for taking care of potentially harmful wastes, like batteries or old paint or last week's meatloaf.
The point I'm making is this: is the hassle really worth it? How much do you really save each month on electricity when using fluorescent bulbs? And are you willing to take the risk of cleaning it up yourself only to find out there is a real hazard (whether physical or legal)? Or do you have $2,000 in ready cash just in case?
If you want to read more about this, I've included some URLs I found.
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http://ellsworthmaine.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7446&Itemid=31
http://www.bangordailynews.com/news/t/news.aspx?articleid=147595&zoneid=500
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268747,00.html
http://www.fourmilab.ch/fourmilog/archives/2007-04/000830.html
Apr. 28th, 2007 @ 07:20 pm
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I passed my driving test yesterday!
I'm 24 years old and I finally have a license!
This is so wierd. I am so freaked out by all of this.
Oh! Oh! And I just had a job interview, so maybe, just maybe, I'll finally have a job! This is definitely my week.
And we've gotten our internet connection fixed! Turns out there was dirt in the external connection to the house. >.< There were also more slices then there needed to be.
Thing is connecting will still be interesting for a few days because our main internet computer is in the shop for a long overdue clean up. Physical and otherwise.
Did you know that dust can collect *inside* a computer?
Anyway, there's also some rather nasty spyware in there that needs to be professionally removed. >~<
Oh well. It should be back by the weekend so then Dad can install the router and the rest of us can enjoy blazing fast internet. (Man, cable is fast!)
Right now I'm using the free wireless connection the local coffee shop has. They also make a nice parfait. Yumm.
Apr. 19th, 2007 @ 03:06 pm
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There's another local problem with the internet, so while I can, I'm making this announcement.
I have Mary Quite Contrary strips upload from now to the 16th of April. Hopefully the problem will be solved by then, but if not there may be some delays with the strip. (There would've been today, if I didn't have insomnia at 2am.)
What's weird is the periodic-ness of the outages. It seems to be steadily out for both dial-up and cable most of the day. Dial-up will have some on times during the day, but usually not for very long.
At unholy hours of the morning, however, the cable will be accessible for maybe 15 minutes at a time.
I don't know what's doing this. Maybe it's a coincidence that both cable and dial-up are affected. After all, the local dial-up is kinda infamous for long stretches of down-time.
I just wish it'd settle down. I know the system is new in this area, but it's starting to get ridiculous. (Actually, I'm wondering where the problem is. The TV works just fine.)
Apr. 8th, 2007 @ 06:27 pm
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Okay, a few days ago I ran into something really weird on Fox News. Now I understand that there are a lot of people out there who think that Fox News is the worst thing to ever hit cable news. I don't buy it, since I've actually watched the channel and found it not only entertaining, but refreshingly honest when it comes to the anchors' various socio-political leanings.
So here's the weird thing. A christian group called Commissioned II Love was banned from a Georgia college campus for excessively rigorous recruiting tactics and hazing.
Now the details of their first charge were not revealed. I don't even know if the details had been released to the media. The hazing, on the other hand...
Washing someone's feet is hazing???
Apparently someone thought the practice was demeaning and complained to the campus authorities. But that isn't hazing. Hazing has to be somehow dangerous and involuntary.
So the college said that washing feet was endangering the students involved.
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Sooo the ancient Christian practice of washing each other's feet as Jesus did with his deciples is dangerous? And it's hazing?
Man, the lady on Fox News was having a time with that. She had two visitors, one who thought the whole thing was nuts and another who thought that foot washing was hazardous. After all, it's regulated in spas and beauty parlors. (Like everything else in this regulation-happy culture.) It was a very frustrating and yet entertaining little news bit.
But sheesh!
If I yelled 'harassment' every time some recruiter shoved a piece of paper up my nose or started jabbering away on the superb qualities of whatever club/organization/you-name-it I'd have shouted myself hoarse in my first year at college.
This is just plain stupid.
Mar. 16th, 2007 @ 02:37 pm
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