Ironscarf wrote:
It's supposed to be autumn here but instead it's really hot - barbeque weather. It feels so wrong to be doing the school run in shorts and a titfer at when it's almost october..

Tell me about it, i've been sweating like a pregnant nun today.

So far, my new internship is off to a better start. I'm a bit of a nervous wreck though because this is my last chance to get my degree. I think I have a well deserved weekend break coming up.

ugh… my car is ALMOST ready to run. Just two small things stopping me dead in my tracks… first of all, I'm missing one of the bolts I need to keep the disc break calipers in place. But second and more importantly… I don't have the socket I need to open the gearbox fluid plug. On most cars it's located on the top of the gearbox, but on mine it's on the side. And I need a #25/26 socket to open it. And the money to buy one isn't there now… This is gonna be a real headache…

surely there is someone you can borrw on from.

Genejoke wrote:
surely there is someone you can borrw on from.

This experience has taught me something that I never seem to learn… When people tell you they'll be there to help you out and they'll watch your back, the moment you actually need them they'll just turn their backs on you…

Lonnehart wrote:
Genejoke wrote:
surely there is someone you can borrw on from.

This experience has taught me something that I never seem to learn… When people tell you they'll be there to help you out and they'll watch your back, the moment you actually need them they'll just turn their backs on you…

So true. Experience has taught me the only people you can trust and rely on are the ones who hate your guts.

Finally finished my pinky TA page…

Here: http://www.drunkduck.com/Pinky_TA/5358464/

Main computer seems fixed for now… it was much harder than I thought to ram that new bideo card in there.The old one was huuuuuge and hard to remove, plus it had two small power connector cables specially for it while the NEW card only had ONE connector of that size but still needed double the power, only though this double molex adapter thingo… which would be fine except the case is biggg and there weren't any molex cables long enoug!
So I opened all my old machines to see if I had any adapters to spare- none

So I was going to make one out of the cables an old comp and the fan cable plug from another… Hard, fiddly work… But then I went through an old tub full of old crappy cords, adapters and consoles and there was JUST what I needed! A lovely molex splitter cable still in its plastic bag, with more tan enough length to do the job!

plugging the damn thing into its slot was painfully hard though. only went in after I'd given up and was only pushing for the sake of it.

Anyway, it seems to work now.
…I like having computer towers in that you can fix stuff fairly simply, but it's a lot of bother and I hate doing it… My next comp will be a laptop.
I hate them because they're so disposable, but at least they don't take up so much space and don't encourage tinkering.

Lonnehart wrote:
ugh… my car is ALMOST ready to run. Just two small things stopping me dead in my tracks… first of all, I'm missing one of the bolts I need to keep the disc break calipers in place. But second and more importantly… I don't have the socket I need to open the gearbox fluid plug. On most cars it's located on the top of the gearbox, but on mine it's on the side. And I need a #25/26 socket to open it. And the money to buy one isn't there now… This is gonna be a real headache…

Auto manufactuers do this on purpose so you won't do your own maintenance. There's always some tool somewhere that you just can never have if you have a normal assortment of tools. You have to be a bloody garage to afford the several thousand dollars worth of specializedtools you need.

The same was true when I was in the army. The M1 used both English and metric tools andrequired a bewildering array of hex key sizes for no good reason. No one had all of them or could carry all of them short ofthe battalion maintenancetruck following the tank company.Things have to get done without waiting for maintainence.So every gunner jingled from their own collection of hex keys and wrenches that the tool bag lacked.

And my car now requires the entire engine diassembled to adjust the timing belt and I have no idea where the gaskets are and there's specialized tools for opening anything. So I'm not going under that hood.

It's not perfect, but you can almost replace ozoneocean's “comp”s and “laptops” with “car”, and replace bravo's “car” with “comp”s / “laptops”, and both posts will still make sense.

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YAY for today – finally some crisp temps for autumn. Before today, this week's humidity could only make a mosquito happy.

Well… found that bolt so now my brakes are good to go. It's just the gear oil. It's always funny how one good sized bolt is enough to keep you from driving your car… but actually I don't want to take any chances of driving the thing with very little gear oil and making things worse. Good thing I have a bicycle to get me to work (though getting back home is torturous thanks totheconstant incline I have to fight everystep of the way)…

Wow… watching a show featuring wild hogs threatening schools in the U.S.. I wonder if those wild boars are good to eat… not that I'd want to eat it. I'm trying to keep meat out of my diet. But apparently there are so many of those things roaming the U.S. I'm kinda surprised that they're not being hunted for their meat.

ayesinback wrote:
It's not perfect, but you can almost replace ozoneocean's “comp”s and “laptops” with “car”, and replace bravo's “car” with “comp”s / “laptops”, and both posts will still make sense.

Ha! So true! ^_^

Ooooh, the humidity in your part of the US borders on tropical rainforrest level >_<
The air is so HEAVY and dense and liquid! It's like swimming while walking. You almost need scuba gear. How anyone wears suits or any sort of dressy clothes in such conditions is entirely beyond me!
-It's exactly as bad there as it is down in New Orleans. Makes Western Australia seem like the surface of the sun by contrast! There are times in this state when you're outside that just breating the air burns you… even in the sade your skin is dried out imiedietly and you feel that you're actually being cooked.

So I don't think either is prefferable. Those that say "it's hot but it's a dry heat", somehow I don't think they can really know how truly awful that really dry heat can be. I think they're probably like I was when I used to think that humid heat was preferable to to turly dry heat; not really knowing the extremes.

Wow… watching a show featuring wild hogs threatening schools in the U.S.. I wonder if those wild boars are good to eat… not that I'd want to eat it. I'm trying to keep meat out of my diet. But apparently there are so many of those things roaming the U.S. I'm kinda surprised that they're not being hunted for their meat.

Not sure if you are talking about wild boar or feral pigs (kind of the same, maybe) but they are hunted, only in the South where they live. That's largely to protect property, livestock and fields though. Feral pigs are serious to hunt (from what I understand) because they can get big and mean, so you hear about hog dogs and see trophy photos pop up on the internet now and then. I'm not sure anyone eats the meat though, as it's not one many Americans would consider, being truly wild and pork having lots of nasty disease potential. Most ‘wild boar’ meat people would eat still comes from farms. They are widely hunted as a nuisance species (if I remember right, most of the states they're in would be quite happy if hunters eradicated them) but I suspect the proportion that makes it to plate is very small.

So I totally was pumped last night, wrote up five pages thumbnailed em all and got started and said-this is way out of my time frame or even my skill level.
So instead I'm redoing my script right now, and am at 15 pages planned one in the works, and much more appropriate to my timeframe.
It's gonna be about a dog peeing on trees.

so its 24hour comic day wooo~. as such please cheer us on or jus come chat
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Ugh… founda crescent wrench that I thought I could use to open the plug. Then I look again and found that the plug is in a recess. I guess those automakers were pretty crafty in designing this thing. A number 25/26 socket is pretty hard to find and worse… very expensive($40?). And only a socket will do sinceno wrench (open orclosed) will fit in that recess… Man, what a headache…

I don't like cycling in the dark, but around here it's pretty dangerous to do so. At the same time I don't like going to work five hours early (it takes me an hour by bicycle to get there), but I do want to get there in one piece… decisions… decisions…

I'm tired of people telling me what to do and how I should change. I am tired of them doing things to me that I tell them not to. I am a nice patient guy, but sometimes I long to be my old self and just kick the crap out of anyone who messed with me.

Well… was on my way home this morning when I spotted that dog. The oen that kept trying to chase me across 5 lanes of traffic to bite my ankles/bike tires. He was laying two lanes away from me in a pool of dried blood. It was a grisly sight (yeah… run over multiple times), complete with collar, chain, and a broken piece of wood attached to the end of the chain. I guess he tried to go after another pedestrian across the street from him… right through the busy morning traffic. I feel sorry for his owner though. No dog owner should have to see their pet like that…

Lonnehart wrote:
I guess he tried to go after another pedestrian across the street from him… right through the busy morning traffic. I feel sorry for his owner though. No dog owner should have to see their pet like that…

Those that live by the sword, die by the sword…

Stupid, aggressive creature ended the way it was destined to. The owner is probably more at fault here, afterall he was the imbecile that left this fully grown, savage beast out in the open to menace people, even if it WAS chained. This small penissed specimen probably thought it made an ideal guard dog. He should just buy a big gun like any other coward.

True… and I think he should've used something stronger to restrain his dog. I've seen dogs break what you'd think was heavy chain and bend metal posts if they becaome aggressive enough…

Anyways, biking at night is now more attractive with that one dog out of the way. But that doesn't mean there aren't others. I'll still bike before the sun sets as I don't feel comfortable doing so in the dark with the one feeble flashlight attached to my bike frame.

Wow… the new episode of Transformers Prime was… surprising. Remember that giant planet eating Transformer from the old 80s movie “Transformers the Movie”? Well… in this iteration, he's actually THE EARTH!!! I can see it now… the Earth awakens and starts eating every planet in the Universe, with Humanity as its servants… O_O

Lonnehart wrote:
True… and I think he should've used something stronger to restrain his dog. I've seen dogs break what you'd think was heavy chain and bend metal posts if they becaome aggressive enough…

I don't think it's anything to with using something stronger to restrain the dog, but training the dog so he doesn't have to be restrained. A dog who's constantly kept on a chain and ignored is bound to be aggressive.
I was attacked twice by a dog when I was young…she was always kept on a strong chain. She never managed to break it. Once she was off the chain for a split second and managed to run off, and the the other time I unwittingly stepped into the reach of her chain. It was the second time that she got me really badly - I was scared of dogs for a long time afterwards.
Even with my own laid-back dog who puts up with kids, cats, bunnies, etc, I notice that he's more anxious when he's tied up. I think he feels he can't protect us as well when he's restrained.

i hate haveing carpal tunnel!!! i cant draw

Good news. My club might be attending a conference in Iceland. I need to find out where exactly. It would be cool if I got to meet Product or Gullas in real life. My and 1337 have a bet that they don't actually exist.

TheFlyingGreenMonkey wrote:
Good news. My club might be attending a conference in Iceland. I need to find out where exactly. It would be cool if I got to meet Product or Gullas in real life. My and 1337 have a bet that they don't actually exist.

They do exist but both really live in the Caribbean.

So there have been the frantic supportive phone calls between all the family members. My mother is home from rehab, feeling much better and enjoying her new rapport with her Physical Therapist and VNA aide. My sister has dislocated the nerve and muscle in her shoulder (as opposed to the actual joint, no that would be too easy) and my wife has moved from the hospital to rehab still out in San Francisco. She may be coming home Saturday and going right into rehab here.

Meanwhile I'm trying to clear out some of the clutter in the house and am finding coupon mailers from June and newspaper sunday comics going back to April.

That frustration I feel when I live 10 miles from college and my friends moved into a flat literally opposite it.

TheFlyingGreenMonkey wrote:
Good news. My club might be attending a conference in Iceland. I need to find out where exactly. It would be cool if I got to meet Product or Gullas in real life. My and 1337 have a bet that they don't actually exist.

There was a time I wasn't sure if Iceland itself exists (you know - I'm an ugly American - it's how we roll). But it does.

And I know that one of the two exists. the other is a mysterious mystery . . .

TheFlyingGreenMonkey wrote:
Good news. My club might be attending a conference in Iceland. I need to find out where exactly. It would be cool if I got to meet Product or Gullas in real life. My and 1337 have a bet that they don't actually exist.

they better exist. otherwise i'd have to figure out who i'm suppose to be dating and that other guy i met up with twice. who are they?!

So now my car is fixed, and I can travel around easier. Things are supposed to be looking up, right? Then why do I feel like freshly processed biological waste? I guess when you get old your brain just does weird things…

Or maybe it's because I'm out of coffee…

it's the coffee

I was having a bit of tension – but restocking on the chocolate helped significantly.

ayesinback wrote:
it's the coffee

I was having a bit of tension – but restocking on the chocolate helped significantly.

It's a good thing my sister isn't where you're at. She'd be raiding your chocolate stores… Just as I have this bad obsession with coffee, she's got one with chocolate. Unless it's WHITE chocolate. For some reason it repels her just as much as regular chcolate attracts her. It's so bad that on Halloween her kids try to eat all the chocolate candies they have. Luckily for them I don't try to raid their candy for all the coffee toffees they have since I prefer my coffee black.

Yep. My car is finally in the state it was before the wheel bearing failed (ripping out the driveshaft with it and damaging the driveshaft bearing in the process). I'll still ride my bike around, but not to work unless I really REALLY HAVE TO. My sis is pretty adamant about this; she's the one who bought parts for my car so I'd get it fixed and she wouldn't have to dread hearing about me being splatted on the road by a freight truck driven by a meth addict…

Earlier today I sent my coworker a text like “Hey, did we agree to X or Y?” and got back “Sure, sounds good.”
Fortunately we got it sorted out. I think.

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I've not been feeling well this evening. I think it's my own fault, though. I was painting(acrylics) all day in a small room and forgot to open the window. Massive headache. And I feel awful for my poor little ratty who had to breathe that in all day.