“Never let anyone interfere with the loves of your life…”
VoIP / cold / driver’s training
- Finally found a VoIP provider that appears to be getting my very first dollars spent on an alternative telephone service – VoicePulse. They seem to offer just about everything that I could want, they’re willing to port my home number, and it sounds like they might even let me choose any interim number that I want! I’ll sign-up in the next day or two so that the equipment will be waiting for me when I get home…now to just figure out how to avoid either moving the answering machine into my office or running cat5 across the living room… 🙁
- After freezing my tuckus off two days ago, I’ve decided that it simply isn’t worth trying to exercise in the evenings up here – with temperatures in the 40s, I’ll probably just end up getting sick and causing more harm than good. Of course, I suppose that I could give it a shot during the day when the sun is out and all…maybe I’ll try thattomorrow!
- I’m trying not to gripe, but it certainly is considerablycolder up here than it is back home in Tampa…no worries about me staying for good, honey! 🙂
- Completely finished disc #1 of the first season of Curb Your Enthusiasm that I bought before leaving town – what a great show!!! If I make it through both discs, though, of course I really owe it to myselfto grab season two for the return trip home… 😛
- I did find all of my old SNES games while cleaning up the other day, so those will definitely be brought back with me, amongst other things! I had a chance to play a little Super Mario World with an old friend earlier this week and let’s just say that I can’t wait to see it up on the big screen!
- Spent about an hour or so this evening trying to teach Lori how to drive stick shift…and she did ok, but still has quite a ways to go before I’d feel safe knowing that she’s out on the road…and not to say that I feel safe with most of the other folks out there regardless, either! I don’t really remember what it was specifically that helped me learn how to ease from gear to gear in a fluid-motion without all of the jerkiness, but right now it just seems that she’s trying to go too fast. Who knows…maybe it’s just a nervous thing that experience itself will have to correct…
- It’s hard to believe that I actually only have another three full days before I turn around and drive back down to Florida – the time really has gone by a lot quicker than I thought! I can’t wait to get home and see everyone back in Tampa, but it’s still kind of sad knowing that this will likely be the last time that I’ll see everyone in 2005. Live each day to its fullest…
P.S. I really miss my girlfriend…it’s hard to believe that such time away from another person could have such an impact on you. I guess if it wasn’t this hard, then it wouldn’t actually be love, eh? Can’t wait to see you again, Les… 😉
Scott MAD!!!!!
OK – just got off the phone with Verizon VoiceWing…apparently not even Verizon can port over my Verizon landline number!
Has anybody in Florida had success with porting their landline number over to a VoIP service?! Maybe I should just consider taking a new number and being done with this madness…
networking your MP3 collection into the home stereo…
Linksys Wireless-B Media Adapter (Linksys page) (Buy.com page)
Also, has anybody ever tried something like this? I’ve been looking for a component to add into my home entertainment system for a while now and I’ve always just assumed that I’d end up building a small box myself instead because nothing ever seems to cover all of the features that I want (all audio and video formats, primarily – don’t really care about pictures). This one only does audio and pictures, but they’ve got it on-sale now for $70…and most like this are well over $200. Any opinions???
IE is being mean…
Whenever I’m surfing with Internet Explorer, eventually it’ll get to a point where the browser won’t load graphics anymore. I clear the cache out, restart IE and it starts working again…for a while, until it does it all over again. I’ve also tried adjusting the cache size to allow for more crap, but nothing seems to want to work.
Has anybody else had this problem and found a working fix for it? (that is, one that doesn’t include switching to Firefox…) Help!!!
I should be driving now…
Well, I guess it’s time to finally hit the road. Sure, I’m technically running a little late, but you know what? It’s my vacation, damn it – I’ll get there when I get there! Last I heard, Michigan isn’t going anywhere anytime soon…no pun intended, but for those of you who are, like, waiting and stuff, I’ll be there as soon as I finish this list…
Current temperature here in Tampa: 86 degrees
Current temperature there in Michigan: 52 degrees
Time that I was supposed to leave: 8AM
Time that I’m actually leaving: 2:30PM
Time that I might make it to Atlanta, if I’m lucky: 10:30PM
Miles to get to my car: .1
Miles to get to Michigan: 1382
Number of bags that I’m taking: 7
Number of trips that it took to get said bags to the car: 3
Moment that I realized it’s time to stop procrastinating and hit the road: now
My next post will be from the blustery foothills of Northern Michigan…everyone think warm thoughts for me while I’m gone… 😛
So yeah, ummm, I got hit on by a dude tonight…
Talk about things that’ll catch you off guard!
I was walking back to my apartment with some things that I’d just picked up at the store when I passed this guy on the sidewalk. He said, “Whaz ‘sup?” I replied with the standard, “Hey, man…” and we both went on our manly ways…
Five minutes later, I’m putting stuff away and the doorbell rings. I’m certainly not expecting anybody, so I look out the peephole to see that same black guy standing at my door. “Maybe I dropped something,” I thought, so I opened the door. Apparently I did drop something, but not exactly what I was thinking!
The man looked me square in the eye and said, “I wanted to let you know that you have a great ass. I hope I’m not offending you or anything by saying that…”
Although a little stunned, I thanked him and he just walked away. Closing the door, I thought, “That was pretty nice of him. Albeit a little creepy, but hell, at least he was polite about it!”
Mind you, we’ll see just how well that I sleep tonight, knowing that the huge, burly black guy next door wants me on his team for all the wrong extracirricular activities, but hey, a compliment’s a compliment…right???
El Desafortunado
So I finally got my car back yesterday…again…
Auto Repair Grand Total for the Month of May: $694.31
And just between you and me, I don’t care anymore. On my way home from work today, the check engine light came on and I almost just stopped the car and walked away right then and there. Now I know that up until these incidents, I’ve really gotten off pretty lucky with regards to maintenance issues…but this is just getting ridiculous!!! It seems to be mostly an idling problem, so I’m just going to dump some fuel additive into the gas tank and if it’s still acting funny by the time I get up north, then I’ll have my old mechanic look at it up there. Mark my words – I’m never going back to the place that I took it this time ever again!
Hell, I’m not even driving past it, just to be safe. :<
All of this ultimately puts me a little over another month behind in completely paying off my debts, but I suppose in the end, there’s really no use crying over spilt engine coolant. June will have to be a better month – it really can’t get any worse – and both July and August will come bearing an extra paycheck each between the two of my jobs, so it’ll be ok.
Just put me on the highway, show me a sign and for the next two weeks, we’ll try to forget all of this ever happened! 😉
Where there’s grammar, there’s hope…
I started a new writing project this evening, mainly to help me cope with some of the stress that I’ve been having recently. Hopefully it’ll be completed sometime around the middle of June, which you math geeks might calculate as giving me about thirty-two days and counting…give or take!
It’s really a new style of writing for me, but so far it’s been fairly theraputic. Of course, I’ll have a much better idea of exactly where this is going a few weeks from now, so check back with me then for a real update… :p