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.

For Sale

eBay, Presidential stuff (maybe too much of it), and Website updates.

I have finally listed some stuff on eBay. It took alot more effort than it should have, due to eBay feeling that my account was hacked and therefore blocking access to it. It took 3 days, but I got access, and got some stuff listed.

I listened to the first presidential debate on my computer, and watched the second early this morning on a Fox News rebroadcast. After coming to mixed opinions, I decided to look online for a survey to help me find who my best candidate is. My results were a bit off of what I expected:

1. Your ideal theoretical candidate. (100%)
2. Brown, Walt – Socialist Party (72%)
3. Cobb, David – Green Party (72%)
4. Nader, Ralph – Independent (63%)
5. Kerry, Senator John, MA – Democrat (56%)
6. Badnarik, Michael – Libertarian (36%)
7. Bush, President George W. – Republican (25%)
8. Peroutka, Michael – Constitution Party (9%)

Apparently my only chance of a 100% (or anything even close) match is to write in my own name. My top match though is Walt Brown, of the Socialist party. Of the 2 candidates that have any chance, Kerry is on top with 56% compared to Bush’s mere 25%.

Overall, based on my views toward what I heard on debates and read on their websites, Kerry is my more compatible on domestic policy while Bush is on foreign. So, I still am fairly unsure which way I will go, but it likely wont be socialist (though this isn’t the first time I have taken a survey and been deemed a socialist).

My overall view of the latest debate is that Kerry too often says “I have a plan” without saying a single word on what the plan is. What are all these plans? Are you going to invade Canada and make them our slaves? Are you going to have your wife’s family give us all free Ketchup so we forget our worries? Bush though, seems to always be defending his last 4 years in office and seldom saying what he will do. So, I am left seeing a choice of a president who wont explain his plans, or one that seems to have none at all.

Anyway, enough of that.

Not that I have much else.

I have posted more to the website. The links, PAQ, and disclaimer are now up. The links page has been slightly updated, but there are more additions I want to do (the “update” was just removing links, not adding). Still more to do, but it is going.

My 200th post will on December 14th. Thats not too far away really. This is 178 by the way, in case you wondered.

OK, I think thats it. I guess I will see you all on Tuesday.

Nick

Recent polls say you lost the debate?
Yeah, that’s why I never trust Poles, or Germans, French, or Russians for that matter.

More Website

Website, Bed, Money, Jenn, and Pizza.

More work on the website. I am up to a main, school, site history, and personal info pages. I will be working on the CD DVD and Book list, links, sitemap, disclaimer, and PAQ next.

I have a new bed. My mom’s bed wouldn’t fit upstairs so we put it in my grandma’s room and I took her bed. I’m not sure what will become of my futon.

The money I thought was coming is not, at least not until the first of the year. I tried listing on eBay for some money but it seems I am banned from eBay. I am a little upset to say the least.

Jenn’s room mate problems seem to be resolved. She talked to them and they are being much more hospitable. Good news.

I had Paddleman’s pizza buffet last night. It isn’t bad, but has some to be desired. The salad is pre-made and was rather blah, plus it had way too many olives (1 is way too many, but this was WAY too many). The buffet itself consisted of 2 pizzas when we arrived, but was up to 4 pizzas, spaghetti, meat sauce, meatballs, and breadsticks when we left. For $4.99 plus $1.50 for a pop, it’s worth a look.

OK, I am going to go now. See you Saturday.

nick

Half
of the people in the world are below average.

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

You've Tried the Best, Now Try the Rest!

Question, Cell Phones, Grandma, River of Time, Todd, Jenn, Construction, and Work.

Hi all.

Question for you. You store glasses upside down because you don’t want stuff to get in them, or so they can drain, right? Why not dishes? Plates have a much greater surface area than cups, yet they are stored right side up. Would plates not have a greater chance of becoming dirty? You may argue that plates and bowls are nested, so only 1 would become dirty. But, that top one that would be dirty is most likely to be used. Also, some cups are nestable, yet are still stored upside down. Just something to think about.

I was looking at cell phones again. I decided I am still waiting. I don’t have any money, nor do i have a real use for a cell phone.

My grandma is driving me crazy. She has good intentions, but is getting into shit she has no clue about. I don’t expect everyone to know everything, I just want them to know enough to realize that they don’t know.

River of Time is next Saturday and Sunday. Jenn and I are going, all you are welcome to join.

Went to Todd’s bonfire with Jenn. Todd was entertaining as always. We learned that Carhartt coats burn very bright and very hot.

Jenn went with her mom and sister to Ann Arbor Friday. Her sister had to go down for an appointment with her pregnancy, and Jenn was to watch Johnny, her nephew. Turns out the baby was breached, and they scheduled a C-section for Saturday morning. So, Jenn was stuck in Ann Arbor very bored all day. Chris was bored here, so we went and saved her. My brother kept thinking he was in Grand Rapids for some reason.

Broadway has full pavement and curbs, just sidewalks, lights, and landscaping to go. The work in front of my house is done for now, but they need to return to replace the sidewalks and grass.

I worked Saturday for the first time in about 6 weeks. Needless to say I am a bit sore. Will be back at it again on Monday. It sucks, but I need a paycheck.

I think that’s it. Will be back Tuesday.

nick

I think the title is funny enough.

Number 170

Jenn, Holiday, Money, Stinky, and Movie.

So what did I miss in Yesterday/Sundays update?

Monday was Jenn and I’s 4 month Anniversary.

Today is “Felt Hat Day” apparently.

I need about $1200 if anybody is rich and has nothing better to do. Well, I could use $1200, I really only need about $200 right now, to pay for .Mac and fulfill my Columbia House agreement.

For some reason our bathroom sink stinks. I’m not totally sure if it’s something in the drain, or something in the water. It seems more prevalent with hot water, but may be something in the trap that becomes more fragrant when warm. I should take it apart, but too lazy right now.

I believe tonight Jenn and I are watching Caddyshack, because she apparently has never seen it. If not, then tomorrow some time.

Ok, Considering I updated yesterday this is quite a bit. See you all Saturday, if I remember.

nick

All quotes have been exhausted, please bare with me as I await somebody to say something cool.