Kind of Useful and Neat
and there are a few people out there who I think I want to go covertly install this on their computers….
Been Drivin All Night and Hands Wet on the Wheel
and no, not just quoting a great song, that is actually what I have been doing since last night…
To sum it up Reader’s Digest style…
I had a flight, Montgomery to Memphis to Boston.
That was canceled so I was moved to a Montgomery to Charlotte to Washington DC flight in hopes of getting me closer and then just taking Amtrak back to Boston so I could be here in order to work today in Burlington doing a rebuild on a live system.
Well, my DC flight from Charlotte was canceled, and with the likelihood of the 9:45 flight not going either so I could get my 5:30 train in Washington to Boston I needed to improvise…
Ned rented a one way rental to Boston!
So Ned drove all last night from Charlotte, NC back to Waltham.
almost exactly 13 hours.
2 stops for gas, which included food at one, and a pee break at another
3 stops to pee on top of those 2 stops for gas, and I grabbed food at the last pee stop.
I was a slightly nice person and gave a ride to 2 people who were stuck on their way home from Cancun and were stuck there because their flight back to Boston was canceled and they could not get a rental car to get home. Lucky me, they paid for gas, tolls and gave me a few bucks as a thank you, but I am going to expense tolls and gas anyway, not that it is a huge amount of money, but a nice little bonus as far as I am concerned.
Definitely an early to bed for sleep night tonight for me.
Country’s BBQ in Troy, AL
Dinner was alright, got the conglomeration plate.
Ribs were good, the pulled pork was pretty good, but the beef was a bit overdone, and tough, I don’t mind overdone if it is fall off the bone and tender, but this was not that kind of beef.
I had some wings to start off with, and they were pretty mediocre, basically deep fried and then tossed with Red Hot, and def red hot though, not a generic.
What is it with pickles down here? I got a pulled pork sandwich for lunch at another local place, and the put pickles on it. What the hell? onions I can understand, but pickles on a pulled pork bbq sandwich?!?!? I spit out my first bite right onto the plate! it was gross!
Anyway, the conglomeration plate had a bed of pickle slices and pickled onions.
EWW
damn pickle pushers!
Where Do Old, Over Controlling, and Annoying Flight Attendants Go?
They get thrown on Regional jet flights where they are the only flight attendant on the flight and get to have complete control and exercise their god complex!!
So, first thing I am on the plane, I have Seat 1D, which means no seat in front of me on the ever so small CanadAir regional jet, but I took that seat because there would be no one sitting next to me, which is always a nice thing. So I get on and she sees where I am sitting and right away she starts out with the “you need to put that bag in the overhead compartment since you don’t have a seat to put it under in front of you”
“thank you, I know I just need to re-arrange a few things first”
and I get into the row and start to re-arrange some of the things in the bag so it will fit up there, and while I am doing so she comes over to remind me again that I need to put it up above and again I remind her that I am moving some things around so I can fit it in the overhead compartment so it willbe a few minutes”
As soon as I am done telling her that, she says “I am going to hold people from boarding to you can go down the aisle and put yout bag in an overhead compartment, I will let you keep a book with you though so you don’t have to get it once we are up in the air”
Hello?!? Did you not listen to me when I said I was re-arraigning things and would be a couple minutes? Gee, thanks, I get to keep a book? How thoughtful and nice of you!
So then, we are sitting down, I have my headphones with me and a bottle of water I had gotten, and I get scolded that I cannot put the bottle of water in the pocket in front of me because it is only meant for magazines, the safety card and the air sickness bag, and if there is any kind of major turbulence then the bottle could fly and hit someone. So I should hold into it in my hands instead.
Are you serious woman? If there is turbulence enough to shake the bottle free from the seat pocket in front of me and could go hit someone else, do you really think that I will be able to keep hold of it in the same turbulence? Personally, I am more worried about why we would be having that bad of turbulence that would cause that to happen more so than that bottle going off somewhere. My guess is that if the turbulence is that bad, the plane is probably gonna go down and crash at that point and I would rather get knocked out with a bottle of water and be unconscious instead of being conscious and watching the ground come at me really fast.
SO THEN we are up and flying… and we have not leveled off yet, but I plugged my headphones into my mindisc and put them on my head because it was about the time that they always announce we can do it (even though I usually have them on before we leave the ground), and she then scolds me that I am not allowed to use approved electronics yet on the flight and I give her the “are you serious” look and she does that little thing that your mom does with her finger that means turn it off. So I turn it off and take the headphones off my ears.
SHE THEN PICKS UP THE INTERCOM AND ANNOUNCES THAT WE HAVE REACHED AN ALTITUDE WHERE WE CAN USE APPROVED ELECTRONICS!!!
What the hell?!?!
Does anyone know if I can buy a shirt that says “I fly 6000 miles a week, leave me alone, I know what I am doing”
To Semi Quote Denny Green – “It was what I thought it was”
That’s what I have to say about the Mexican Place called Hacienda’s here in Warsaw, IN.
It was exactly what I was expecting from a mexican resteraunt here in the state if Indiana.
I got the fajitas, tough to really screw it up… and they did not but it just was severely underwhelming of a meal… I skipped the beans, and no peppers with the fajitas.
I got 3 strips of chicken, and 5 strips of steak. but they gave me 5 fajitas wraps. Do they really think I can stretch that out to many wraps? Also, the onions, normally you would expect some nice slices or rings all saute’d up? Not at this place! Super high class! Ya know those micro-sized diced onions you get on a McDonald’s hamburger? Picture those saute’d up underneath my heaping portions of meat. Yeah, that REALLY got me all kinds of excited when it arrived to the table!!
The salsa tasted more like Hunts Tomato paste mixed with some jalapeno juice…
awesome…
YAY, It’s the Small Milestones Sometimes…
Posted by nedster in Home Improvement on 2007/03/05
So I finally finished off around the window in the kitchen, no more rough sheetrock corners and nasty looking area around the window.
It is now smooth nice wood, with trim too!! and a proper window sill, with a rounded front edge that I did with my router, yes, I bought a router, but I will be using it for many other things as well. I have more work to do around here and I will be using it.
fun fun fun!
Tomorrow I will be seeing if the white primer I have is still good and priming the wood tomorrow during the day, if not time to toss the primer and go get some new stuff at Home Depot and then prime it.
Officially, First Time For Something..
First… to set the scene…. I am at a Hampton Inn down here in Monroe, LA. Now, this is not the normal Hamton I stay at, this one has no inside hallways and reminds me of a crack hotel, similar to the normal Red Roof or other type of place to stay. Also, the roadways and all of the surrounding area is pretty beat up and run down, I am pretty sure you have seen this area on at least 1 episode of cops, it fits the stereo typical cops area perfectly.
So, I went out to eat for dinner and have come back to my room. On the way there was this woman standing near her pickup truck which was parked near the stairway up to the 2nd level where my room is. She is probably mid 30’s but looks to be about mid to late 40’s and is dressed kinda trashy and smoking a cig while she stands there.
So I am walking past and go to head up to my room and I hear her say…
“hey, honey, you looking for any company tonight?”
So yes, I have officially been solicited by a hooker for the first time in person!!!
Talk about a monumental occasion
So I Am In LA
and that’s Louisiana not Los Angeles…
Not much interesting so far, but when I got off the plane, first reaction… Yup, smells like a swamp!
I Need To Go To The Middle Of Nowhere More Often!
I am not staying in a hotel this evening like I normally do… tonight I am staying in the guesthouse of the company I am installing at. now when I first heard this I was a bit apprehensive since I have heard about other “guest houses” that other consultants have stayed it.
just like a normal hotel room, I have my own room and I have my own bathroom.
However, this place is AWESOME, the only thing it is missing is a hot tub out back.
There is a pool room with big screen TV outside of my bedroom, also has a nordic track and a lifecycle and a drum set.
Then downstairs there is a huge flat screen TV, I think it has to be 60 inches, DVD, cable, multiple couches, slot machines, big dining room, and an awesome kitchen that I wish I had.
There is also a deck out back that is cool and has a really nice grill on it.
The fridge and bar are completely stocked and I was told to help myself to a beer or wine or whatever I wanted. Plenty of snacks and everything around as well.
I don’t live this well at home!!
So I am playing pool, drinking a plain coke, watching law and order and have internet access. I like this much better than a hotel room!
The batteries are charging for my camera so I can take some pictures later on of this place.
Nice Cool, New Toy, With Great Timing!
So I broke down and bought myself a Slingbox…
If you know what they are, they are pretty damn cool, if you do not, well here comes the techie explanation.
It is a small component that I have plugged in at home, it connects to my cable line, and then has a network cord that connects to my router for internet access.
Now, anytime I have an internet connection, I can turn on the Slingbox software, and it will connect me to the slingbox sitting at my house and I can watch tv on my laptop using that cable connection. Neat huh? So now, while I am stuck at the airport, I can watch tv, any channel I have at home, I can flip through and watch.
The key thing and first reason for buying this device is for Red Sox games. Since I am traveling all of the time I miss an absolute ton of games since they are either not nationally televised or I am in an area that has no NESN service, not to mention missing out on the day games because I am at work.
NO LONGER A PROBLEM!
Wooohooooo