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Comedy gold

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Here’s one more rea­son that I love Cor­ner Gas:

Hank, think­ing he’s psy­chic*, tries to explain the dis­turb­ing dream he had the night before.

Hank: I just, I woke up with this uneasy feeling.
Brent: You ate cot­ton can­dy and pep­per­oni for sup­per last night. It’s a won­der you woke up at all.

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* Or phy­cic, as the Dog Riv­er Howler spelt it.

Tunes

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I’m com­ing to real­ly like CBC Radio 3. Here are a cou­ple reasons:

What I Need to Car­ry On by the smalls

I need a pack mule
I need some camp fuel
I need a pack mule can car­ry a body, maybe two
I need a pack mule

And Apoc­a­lyp­tic Mod­i­fied Blues by Corb Lund

Have you made your peace with Odin and with Baal and Aphrodite
Cuz there’s a triple head­ed ser­pent here with one hell of a bite
And he knows you…
He knows you and laughs and locks the door

Viking kitties

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So I’ve been work­ing in my base­ment for the last few weeks. This means I’ve been lis­ten­ing to rather more radio than I usu­al­ly do.

There are two music sta­tions in town that I like, and in the car I’ll switch back and forth quite hap­pi­ly between “Local Town’s Best Rock” and the col­lege sta­tion. But in the base­ment, on my wife’s lit­tle pink stereo that she’s had for who knows how long, the col­lege sta­tion does­n’t come in so well. (Unless you like sta­t­ic.) So I’ve large­ly been lis­ten­ing the Best Rock sta­tion. They like to play Led Zep­pelin, and some­times they like to play Led Zep­pelin’s “Immi­grant Song”.

Which would be fine, if I’d nev­er seen this.

There. I dare you to not think of that lit­tle piece of online bril­liance the next time “The Immi­grant Song” comes on the radio.

Flickrblogging — IMG_6327

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IMG_6327
Dis­cov­ered in calanimepho­tos’s Flickr photostream. 

She bris­tled at the name. “Robin? Don’t even— Don’t even talk to me about that lit­tle suck­up. Don’t even men­tion his name. Seri­ous­ly.” Rolling her eyes: “He spent like two days on the phones, then got pro­mot­ed. Now I hear he does field­work. What is he, six­teen? Man, let me tell you— Sor­ry, hang on, I got­ta take this.”

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What I did with my summer vacation

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Well, part of it, anyways.

I removed some moldy dry­wall from our base­ment bath­room a while ago, and I’ve been replac­ing it for the last lit­tle while. Well, actu­al­ly, I’ve been hang­ing dry­wall yes­ter­day and today; before that was some prep work, some more demo­li­tion, and a trip to the Peg to vis­it our respec­tive sis­ters and their families.

Pho­tos:

Isaac
My nephew watch­ing a Bob­cat jack­ham­mer con­crete in his backyard.

Shower pipes

Flooring
Some of the demo­li­tion — pipes in the show­er, and linoleum com­ing up.
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Update

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It’s been a lit­tle while, has­n’t it?

Tonight I have judo. Next week­end I may be head­ing into the city for a coach­ing tech­ni­cal class. Yes, the two of them are related.

I’ve been work­ing on Every­thing that nev­er hap­pened, but not enough. I need to get some seri­ous writ­ing done tomorrow.

Face­book is, as I think I point­ed out ear­li­er, a bit like crack over DSL.

Xubun­tu still rules, and still runs my nerd-box upstairs. It’s even lost its WiFi net­work con­nec­tion less fre­quent­ly and less cat­a­stroph­i­cal­ly than the Win­dows box that it has replaced.

And that’s all I can think of now. More updates when I have some­thing to say.

yrs,
-pat

Nerd alert

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I’m writ­ing this entry on my new nerd box.

The oth­er day I bought a sur­plus com­put­er from the local school divi­sion. It cost me all of $35. It’s a 1.1GHz machine with a 20-GB hard dri­ve and 128 MB of RAM. I brought it home, burned Xubun­tu to a CD, and slapped in an extra 256MB DIMM and a wire­less net­work card from my (dead) pre­vi­ous nerd box. My friend Kevin (who’s anoth­er com­put­er geek) came over, and we fired her up. After a cou­ple false starts (most­ly involv­ing the onboard video, which was­n’t capa­ble enough), we got Xubun­tu running.

Kevin had to leave, and I had some fid­dling left to do (most­ly with the wireless–I had to fig­ure out how to enable WEP so my neigh­bours can’t leech inter­net from me, not that they would), and by 9 PM tonight I had it hum­ming along just peachy freakin’ keen.

So the moral of the sto­ry? I’m awe­some. Maybe as awe­some as Xubun­tu, though that might be push­ing it.

The intent is to use the nerd box as a writ­ing and surf­ing machine. From what I’ve seen so far, it should be more than capa­ble in those roles.