Category: Random Stuff

Today was the company picnic, a bright sunny August Day in the park.

My Family had a great time, but I don’t think they took enough of advantage of the free food and drink, oh well.  They played the games over and over, but my patience for long lines is about as thick as the “Sons of the Soil” good dining guide.  After standing the sun for as long as we did I’m burned and frustrated and carrying an armload of crap.

On a side note, friends can see pix from the picnic on my flickr page, I only took three.

I met one of the Smothers Brothers kids.  I was mouthing off about an event and he asked me to name myself, I guessed he might be an exec staff so I wouldn’t say who I was, he handed me his business card “Steve Smothers” of “Smothers Speciality Foods: makers of “Little Stevie’s Seasonings”  I gave up my name then.
I told him “You have a famous name” he said “I have a famous Dad” and pointed to his hat.  I was was a little star struck, since I believe I’d seen this guy on tv (from when he was a kid)  but we just parted ways after a bit.

After that, The Spawn got an inflatable crayon for a Friends son and I got a nice sno-cone.  Then we left.

A spent a bit at the book shop and have a whole bunch of the “Books of Magic” as well as a new Flash and “Y the last man” books too.

After the Spawn went to bed we watched “The Island” which was good, but the plot was pretty much see-through.  I wish the plot wasn’t so telegraphed.

Now we are watching this japanese flick where th characters are on some sort of radioactive dump and there are giant flowers, I think it might actually be a Godzilla flick.

Edit: I couldn’t have been more wrong, The title of the move is Yume or “Akira Kurosawa’s: Dreams”  [I think it was all the radiation talk and giant plants] I had to go to the inhd website to find the actual name of the film.

I had no idea time travel was so simple, just hit snooze on your alarm clock and BAM it’s 2 hours later!

My alarms are set up at 4:00 AM and 4:30 AM to get me to work for 5:00 AM; this should work to wake me up.  I think that since i moved my alarm clock to my bedside table from its former perch accross the room has failed me.  It will have to move back, since having to get out of bed to hit snooze was such a boon to making me wake up.

Funny though, when I woke up initially I turned on the TV and saw some of “The Rock” when I drifted back off and finally woke up again, it was “caddyshack 2” but I remember thinking that it was strange that the Rock had such 80s music in it (as I could hear the opening theme to caddyshack 2 as I woke up.

“That’s a wicked Hook you got there”

Check out my new Laptop.  This is a P2 Mobile (300mhz) Toughtbook!

Ben and I spent the morning trying to get Ubuntu installed on it,

Level of difficulty:
No CD/DVD drive
No USB Boot
No Network Boot.

Solution:

Pull a ghost image from an already installed ubuntu onto the drive.

Thanks Shawn for the ghost help! Thanks Ben for the image!

After some fiddling with X it is up and running!!!

Checking in with a burning missive about late night calls and comcast service.

Our DVR from comcast has been on a slow decline for ages, with the “second” tuner being non-operable for months now.  Last night the main tuner stoppped behaving and prompted me to call in Comcast.  The Comcast tech was polite and prompt but could not fathom what I was saying “I’ve never heard of this” was about the best she could say.

Anyway, after unplugging and re-plugging the box and cables she decided that a tech visit was in order.  Let’s hope they bring a new DVR and a signal booster with them.

My Sister-in-Law told us earlier that she would have a lodger for the summer, a “troubled kid” which we cautioned her against.  It’s been a couple weeks since we heard from her so I tried giving her a call, late so we’d be sure she was home.  No Luck.

Excellent, it’s Tuesday.  That means I get my House Fix! Apparently they are bringing Bones back too, I’m not the bigget fan of Bones, but that whole eppy about the Bears and Cannibals was great!.

It’s too bad that House is on Fox, more money for Murdoch, but i guess Fox is the only network besides USA that would have had it.