Tag Archives: Personal Blather

I’m ill…

I hate colds. Right now I’ve got a doozy of a summer cold. It developed last night and I woke up this morning with puffy eyes, a stuffed up nose, itchy throat and post-nasal drip.
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No such thing as a free lunch

But if you’re lucky, someone else might pick up the tab for dinner now and then.
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There’s no place like home.

Well, actually there’s quite a few places like home. There’s even more of them that could be called “home” and that’s where there was a bit of confusion last night.
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Darn.

I’m just not a terribly good capitalist.

We just had a client in who was on the verge of dropping off a job that would have made us about $300. Fairly simple slide imaging stuff, but in sufficient quantity to make it useful to break out the bulk load camera. Then she mentioned that she was an art student and it was stuff for her portfolio.

Uh oh.
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The lawn has been conquered!

Well mostly.

It took about an hour and a half to mow the three yard sections (front, near back, far back) but it was worth it. If I keep up with things, I should be able to maintain it with the push mower, which is a much quieter way of dealing with things.
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Better Living Through Chemistry!

Fun phone call last night from a friend of mine who was tuned into local news. It seems there was some sort of “Chemical accident” at a metal plating plant about a mile or two away from my house.
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Gloomy Sunday

It’s been pouring rain on and off for the past few days. I’d hoped that it would clear up enough for me to take care of my lawn. Right now it looks pretty wild out there. It’s ankle deep in places. My house is looking like the ragged, unkempt kid on the block. No more hail though, not like Friday.

Which reminds me, I was going to tell the hail story…
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Late Friday or Early Saturday

I’m not sure which to call this one. Probably late Friday. I’m one of those people who doesn’t count a new day as starting until after I’ve gone to sleep and gotten back up.
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Icon Theft

You know, if you’re going to rip off a major design element from another company, you should probably pick one that doesn’t have ten thousand lawyers on speed-dial.
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News from the home front

My fiancee and I are doing dual sofa blogging right now… Pretty much the only way we could be geekier would be if we had an instant messanger program running and used that instead of talking to each other.
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