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Interview, Columbia House, Scott, Food, Folding, and Who?

This is general number 123. Sad, considering the next highest category is Blogger at 34, then Special at 18.

Job interview was tonight at the Radio Shack in the Fashion Square Mall. No clue how I did. Was supposed to be an application and an interview, but I was never interviewed. Perhaps they thought I was another applicant and let me go early, perhaps the Bay City store needs to interview me, or perhaps they just plain don’t want me.

My last CD from Columbia House came in, so next month I will be canceling my membership. Woohoo.

Sixty one days until Christmas, and 2 until Scott’s Birthday.

I made beef and bean enchiladas last night. I put a bit too much spice in the meat though, it seems 2 lbs beef + 3 jalapenos + 2 habeneros = too much. They were good though. Also, Jenn made crab rangoon. It was odd to have mexican and chinese at once, but it worked out because hers were done about an hour earlier than mine, so was a nice appetizer/snack.

Saw Suchyta today, first time in a few months. He is moving to Nevada next week I guess.

I passed 2000 points on Folding@Home today, woohoo!

I received an email from a “fan” named Sydney. I replied nicely, but to be honest have no idea who you are. Thanks for the compliments though.

I guess thats it.

Till Saturday,
nick

Memories

1 year, 10 years, Jobs, and eBay.

Lets start with a year ago today (October 24, 2003). I received Panther, reformated my HD and installed, then Suchyta and I went down to the Apple Store in Troy for the official release. It was also my first time to a Steak and Shake, which as I remember it was pretty good.

Now lets go way back, to 6th grade. When I was incapable of using a computer. Yes, it used to be so. I had used an Apple II at MacGregor, but that was a far cry from the Mac LC475s at Handy. I was of low enough skill to be unaware of wordwrap and the return key, hence using the space bar to create every new line. Yeah, that worked out well.

OK, so what else…

I have applied at 7-11 and RadioShack. I am leaning toward RS, except the commission part. I am anti-people, so having a pay system that is based on the requirement of talking to as many people as possible could be a bad thing. Maybe it will be good for me though. Interview is at 6 on Wednesday.

Looking around on eBay, I found one of these in the $150 area. The significance is that about 2 years ago, I bought one on eBay for $55. With what the store wants, thats nearly 4x in 2 years, even the auctions is 3x. I am excited, and tempted, but know I must hold on.

OK, thats all I suppose. See you around.

nick

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Number 179

Stupid canadians, Furniture, ebay, and Election.

The weirdest thing happened today. I was at Jenn’s, and I noticed the toilet paper is 3/4 the width of normal. Apparently it was brought from Canada by one of her roommates. It’s metric toilet paper! It’s funny.

Jenn now has my futon, Chris’s is sold, along with our pull out bed/sofa thing and a bunch of other stuff. We had like 8 things for sale in the newspaper and this lady came for one thing, but ended up buying nearly everything.

Only about 14 hours left on my auctions. I currently have a bid on only 1 item. I am hoping they are doing a last minute thing, which is likely.

After another presidential survey, I learned I am 83% with Kerry, and 12% with Bush. I disagree that it’s that much, I felt I was a little more toward even, but figured was more with Kerry.

I think that’s about it. Guess I will see you all Friday.

Nick

Good… Bad… I’m the guy with the gun.
Bruce Campbell – Army of Darkness.

New Look!

Changes, Storage, and the Election.

Well, you will notice a change of look. The five most recent blogs now display in entirety on the main blog page, and some color changes too. Also, I have changed the website, and I PROMISE I will update it.

So, in other news…

Jenn and I finished emptying our storage unit yesterday. That’s $69 a month we are no longer spending.

The presidential election has brought out something that I really don’t like. A lot of people I have heard from seem to be voting for John Kerry not because they believe him to be the better candidate, but simply to vote against George Bush. Yes, you should get out and vote, but voting for a candidate and knowing nothing about them is not a great idea. I too see that George Bush has done many things that I don’t believe in, but until I know that John Kerry is a better candidate, I am unwilling to vote for him. Just my view though.

OK, I think that’s it for tonight. See you all Wednesday.

nick

Goodbye September, Hello October

The good and the bad, The website, and Jenn.

It’s the end of the month. That could be good, and it could be bad. Bad because the car and truck both need new plates this month. Bad because I need to have everything out of our storage within a few days. Good though because I should have some money coming, and Halloween is only 31 days away.

I looked at working on the site, but didn’t make it far. Apple upgraded my storage space from 100MB for my idisk and 15MB for email to 250MB combined. It comes at 125MB each by default, but I moved it to 200 for the disk and 50 for email. To be honest, I never used all the 100 or 15. I also looked at switching blogging software. There is a decent app called BlogWave Studio that I looked into. It seems pretty good, but I saw some issues with it that I don’t particularly like. Beyond that though is the mere fact of switching over all the blogs I already have. I did it when I moved from blogger, but that was 4 months worth. Now I have about 17 months of blogs, and that’s a lot to swap over. maybe I would just leave them formated as-is, or maybe I just wont switch apps. It won’t be something that will happen before year end regardless.

Jenn is sleeping in my bed right now because her and her roommates haven’t been getting along. Mostly it’s her versus a specific roommate, with a second roommate always taking that ones side, and the third sitting there not saying a word. Yucky stuff.

Nothing else real great. Worked on clearing out storage today, yesterday I mostly sat around, and Tuesday I made some awesome stew. That’s about it.

Ok, see you all Sunday then I suppose.

nick

Duct tape is like The Force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
–  Carl Zwanzig

Eww, Monday.

River of Time, Sick, Food, Tim, and Pipes.

Jenn and I went for a bike ride Friday night to see the progress of the River of Time, they were pretty well set up by 9 ish when we were there. We went back Saturday to walk around. She seemed to enjoy it, and has become addicted to the kettle corn, likes the cream soda, and was having alot of fun watching this red bearded Scottish guy officiate a weird form of tug-o-war.

We were both sick over the weekend. Jenn is pretty much better, and I am not quite, but close.

We made shrimp stir fry last night. It was pretty good. My “Alton Brown’s Sweet and Sour Pork” is still the best chinese I’ve ever made though.

Thursday Tim came in from PA. He left today. I think i saw him for all of 10 minutes. Oh well, he is always busy when he comes into town, and now that I kinda have a life, it’s worse.

Also on Thursday, we had a plumbing problem. After work, there is nothing like a shower. I however, didn’t get one. As I ran water to get it at the right temp, I realized it wasn’t going down the drain. So, I shut off the water and tried plunging. I realized most of my suction was being lost to the overflow, so removed and plugged that. Then, I remembered that the tub, bathroom sink, and kitchen sink are all on the same sewage line, so plugged all them. After a few minutes, I went to see if the other drains were working, and they weren’t. I had worked the clog deeper along the pipe, rather than out like I had hoped. So, I began plunging on one of the two basins of our kitchen sink, and began getting hair and strings out. After this stopped producing much, I tried the other basin. A few moments later, the water started going down, and I was happy. The kitchen, bathroom, and tub all drained, but not where I wanted. I had heard a “waterfall” like noise just after the clog busted, coming from the basement. Upon inspecting, the pipe had burst. The old cast-iron pipe had all but rusted through, and the pressure from me plunging must have been the final straw. It was not pretty. I went over to Jenn’s to shower, as it had been about an hour now since I came home and was actually dirtier than when I started, and my mom called my uncle for assistance.

Two hours later my uncle showed up to help fix the pipes (Help is way understating it. He did pretty much everything as I had no clue. PVC – PVC is fine, but the whole PVC – Iron thing I don’t like, especially the cutting iron part.) It turns out the pipe was at least 50 years old, and had an opening about 1/2″ diameter through the 2″ pipe. Thats a lot of yucky buildup. All is well now though.

OK, that is all till Thursday.

bye

nick

Crisis Averted

Payed, will get pay, and Do it or you will pay.

Well, the Blog will not be going away. It means I can’t cancel my Capitol One card like I had hoped, but ohh well. Another year of not working on the webpage, late blogs, and too much spam is now payed for.

I worked yesterday for a few hours. Not as much as I would like, but it was pretty hot and we didn’t have anything else we could do on the job, so oh well.

River of Time begins setting up tonight, and will be open next 2 days. You all better go, or I will kill you.

nick

Is The End Near?

Blog, and Jenn.

I am wondering if the blog may come to an end. My .Mac subscription is up for renewal by October 1st, and I don’t know if I can afford it. This covers the blog, website, my .mac email, and my online back-up disk. I guess we won’t really know until October 2nd, huh?

I went with Jenn on Monday to go see her sister and new niece in Ann Arbor. Some screwy traffic on the way down. We got lost in the hospital a bit on our way out, then her windshield got cracked by a stone around Flint. We tried to go to the Flint Chi-chi’s, but they were closed (turns out the entire chain closed nation wide, we would decide to eat there the day they decided to permanently go belly-up), so went next door to Bennigan’s for lunch, it wasn’t as good as normal. Jenn was getting sick and was feeling pretty crumby by the end of the trip.

Since then, Jenn has become sicker, but is now becoming better.

I think that’s about it. See you friday, and remember the River of Time.

nick