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January 28, 2006
What if they gave an earthquake...
and I didn't notice it?
Apparently there was a magnitude 2.9 quake with an epicenter about three miles from where I'm sitting, and I didn't notice it. Barb did, and the cat did, but I was oblivious.
I'm a little disappointed, you know?
Posted by Lee at 06:30 PM | Comments (0)
January 24, 2006
Konbanwa, Bento-san!
So the ladytype bought us a couple of Mr. Bento lunch pails. (She's almost as much of a food geek as I am.) Yes, it's a $50 lunch box. However, I really like the portion control. I also really like that stuff doesn't get squished when I'm on the bus. And I really, really, really like that it fits in the water bottle holster on my Man Bag. And it will keep the hot side hot, and the cool side cool. How do it know? (That's for you, mom!) The rice container's lid forms an insulation layer between the top and bottom part of the thermos. It's state-of-the-art Japanese lunch containment technology. Oh yeah, and free chopsticks with a nice sanitary holder.
So what's in Mr. Bento right now?
1/4 c hummus
1/4 c tzatziki (I have no responsibility whatsoever to spell that word correctly.)
1 Chicken breast.
1 Apple.
1 Orange
3 Mini pitas
Lunch. Yum.
Oh yeah, and I lost six pounds last week. Go me.
What's in other people's Mr. Bento? Look here. Mr. Bento apparently has a posse.
Posted by Lee at 10:07 PM | Comments (0)
January 17, 2006
Canoes. Now with extra spiders!
I don't usually remember my dreams, but this was a weird one.
I was standing in the stern of a dugout canoe, with two other people
paddling. Not sure who they were. We were overtook a couple of
eight-person rowing shells (which is pretty impressive for a dugout
canoe). Then, one of the other people in my canoe mentions to me that the
next part would be easier if our paddles were stronger, or something along
those lines. (That's why I need a dictaphone by my bed, to record these
pithy things the people in my dreams say.)
The next part involved a chasm, a waterfall, and a tree on the other side
of the chasm with some black widow spiders. Somehow, I managed to leap
from the canoe across the chasm. After I catch my breath, my eyes focus
on the tree branch I've landed in...which has a couple black widow spiders
crawling around. Not MILLIONS OF SPIDERS...just two or three of them. I
manage to mash one that's crawling on my hand, and then I wake up.
and have to go to work.
Some mornings, I would rather take my chances with the spiders.
Posted by Lee at 06:21 PM | Comments (0)
January 14, 2006
The house went splodey.
OK, no, not really, but this week B and I are having our first major bout of Homeowner Drama. On Tuesday, as I was shambling into the bathroom to take care of my morning ablutions, I flipped on the light switch, and the light fixture over the tub went POP! and there was a Big Blue Spark. Not the bulb...the fixture. All the lights on that circuit go dark. Oh goody. Sorry, house, I'm totally incapable of dealing with this just after rolling out of bed.
So, fast forward to Saturday. At this point, I'm assuming that the ugly light fixtures in the bathroom just need to be replaced. We picked out some nice fixtures at the Home Despot, and brought 'em home. I grabbed my trusty digital multimeter to go downstairs and repair the lights. (I wanted to use the multimeter to triple check that the circuit was cold). Before I head downstairs, I stick the multimeter in an outlet upstairs to test it.
Guess what.
POP! Blue spark. Everything goes dark. B says "Uh, what just happened?"
Crap.
So, the main circuit upstairs that runs the front room, the TV room, and all the ceiling fixtures (including the kitchen) is now out of commission as well. Oh goody. So, now we're running around trying to figure out what to do next.
At one point, we look at each other and say "HOME WARRANTY!" which was one of the contingencies we required when we bought the house. Woot. Now we just need to find the paperwork.
not woot.
We look everywhere, and we can't find it. B is frustrated, I'm annoyed, and it's no fun. So we sit down, have a grilled cheese sammich (yum!), and try not to think about it (which is the way to find things that you're looking for).
Then B be's a hero. She recalls the name of the warranty holder. She finds their web site. She finds our contract number. And she submits a ticket to them, requesting they contact us and schedule a repair.
Wo-oo-oooot. She's a hero.
So that's where we're at. We've got extension cables running the critical hardware (that's the Tivo and our laptop charger), and we're OK. It's kinda dark.
Posted by Lee at 11:22 PM | Comments (0)
January 01, 2006
Happy New Year!
This is what a bottle looks like when you cut the top off with a really big knife.
Posted by Lee at 12:24 AM | Comments (0)