March 2009
21 posts
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Unified Agenda, ongoing
To Do
Wood Shop Tuesday
Take the truck in to get smogged
Find a dentist
More blood work
Figure out what time I want to go to Weight Watchers and do it
Call EAP about further therapy
Taxes [DONE]
Clean room
Clean truck
Shopping
Hard drive enclosures
Lawn chairs and tables for back and front
Projects
Fix Truck
Look for a car that I don’t despise
Truck issues
Fuel...
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Today's Music Acquisitions
The Beatles - Help
The Beatles - Let It Be
Oystein Sevag - Global House
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
Pink Floyd - Is There Anybody Out There? The Wall Live 1980-81
(via Rasputin)
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Unified Agenda, ongoing
To Do
Wood Shop Tuesday
Take the truck in to get smogged
Find a dentist
More blood work
Figure out what time I want to go to Weight Watchers and do it
Call EAP about further therapy
Go to credit union and get my address change straightened out [DONE]
Taxes
Clean room
Clean truck
Shopping
Hard drive enclosures
Lawn chairs and tables for back and front
Projects
Fix Truck
...
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Tool Review
Irwin Handi-Clamps
These pincer-shaped clamps are designed to open and close easily. They ratchet
shut, and only open when you pull the release lever. I got them for holding wood
down on the sawhorses when I’m using the saw, but unfortunately they don’t
grip tight enough for that — they can only grip as tight as you can squeeze. They’re
still useful for holding guides...
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Unified Agenda, ongoing
To Do
Wood Shop Tuesday [DONE]
Take the truck in to get smogged
Find a dentist
More blood work
Figure out what time I want to go to Weight Watchers and do it
Fix the bathroom door lock [DONE]
Get another piece of wood for shop [DONE]
Shopping
Hard drive enclosures
Lawn chairs and tables for back and front
Doorknob [DONE]
Pegboard hangers [DONE]
Projects
Fix Truck
Look for a...
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Measure *right*, cut once.
I started cutting the sides for the jewelry box project in shop last week. I cut the front and back pieces properly, but I screwed up the side pieces.
My technique was perfect. My use of the machine was perfect. My measurements were perfect, to the point of anal retentality. I cut a perfectly-sized 3¾” piece.
I was supposed to cut a 7¾” piece.
It doesn’t matter how many...
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Unified Agenda, ongoing
Today is going to be mainly a catch-up-on-sleep day, since I haven’t had a proper one of those for weeks now.
To Do
Wood Shop Tuesday
Take the truck in to get smogged
Find a dentist
More blood work
Get latest cholestorol Rx [DONE]
Figure out what time I want to go to Weight Watchers and do it
Fix the bathroom door lock
Get another piece of wood for shop
Get called into work on...
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Television Review
As always, everything is rated on the Binary Scale.
The IT Crowd
Taking the same old bullshit sitcom formula and throwing in a few geek in-jokes
doesn’t make it a ‘geek sitcom.’ It just makes it shitty television. Utterly without merit.
Score: -1
Doctor Who
The new series is good. But it’s missing something intangible that the old series had.
Can’t...
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Unified Agenda, Tuesday
To Do
Psychiatrist appointment Tuesday [DONE]
Wood Shop Tuesday
Take the truck in to get smogged
Get this number on the Do Not Call list [DONE]
Find a dentist
More blood work
Get latest cholestorol Rx
Look into Weight Watchers [DONE. Printed out a schedule for the Concord location. I don’t have to do anything, just drop in]
Call in my Rx refills [DONE]
Shopping
Hard drive...
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Today's Music Acquisitions
Experience Hendrix: The Best of Jimi Hendrix
Gwen Stefani: The Sweet Escape
Dire Straits: Money for Nothing
Synthesizer Greatest Vol. 2
Beastie Boys: Hello Nasty
(via Rasputin)
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Music Review
As always, everything is rated on the Binary Scale.
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Sounds like the bastard child of Rock and Techno. There’s only one track on it that
I really like, and I already had it on PureMoods II
Score: 0
Choice tracks: Teardrop
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Early synth-ey new-age music. Very mellow and ambient in some sections, more
upbeat in others.
...
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Unified Agenda, Monday
To Do
Psychiatrist appointment Tuesday
Wood Shop Tuesday
Take the truck in to get smogged
Get this number on the Do Not Call list
Find a dentist
More blood work
Get latest cholestorol Rx
Look into Weight Watchers
Call in my Rx refills
Clean room [DONE]
Shopping
Hard drive enclosures
Lawn chairs and tables for back and front
Projects
Fix Truck
Look for a car that I...
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Today's Music Acquisitions
Massive Attack - Mezzanine
Jean Michel Jarre - Oxygene
Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight
The Who Sings My Generation
(via Rasputin’s)
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Unified Agenda, Monday
To Do
Therapist appointment Tuesday [DONE]
Wood Shop Tuesday [DONE]
Take the truck in to get smogged [In Progress. Waiting for reply from the state]
Get this number on the Do Not Call list
Find a dentist
More blood work
Get latest cholestorol Rx
Look into Weight Watchers [DONE. Just the ‘looking into’ part, mind you]
Get 3ft (board feet) of wood for shop [DONE]
Clean...
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Music Review
As always, everything is rated on the Binary Scale.
Roger Waters - The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking
Very similar in style to late-pre-breakup Pink Floyd, such as The Wall or The Final Cut.
Actually, it’s what late-pre-breakup Pink Floyd would sound like if you replaced David Gilmour
with Eric Clapton (who plays guitar on this album)
Rating: 1
Choice tracks: “Sexual...
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The Binary Rating Scale, desribed
Since I’m too simpleminded to describe anything to better precision, I rate pretty much everything using the Binary Scale. Basically, it’s a scale from zero to one, integral.
To my amusement, it confuses people that aren’t familiar with it when I say of something, “I give it a one.” It usually confuses them even further when I explain that it’s one...
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Have A Nice Trip?
Well, I went to my first wood shop class tonight. All was going well until I stepped out to use the restroom.
The usual restroom in the shop was locked and we couldn’t get in, since the high school apparently can’t figure out how to get a key to the instructor. The backup restroom in the shop office was out of order, since apparently nobody has the sense to keep a toilet plunger...
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“The poor are not just living off the crumbs from the rich man’s table,...”
– David Bryer, Oxfam
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Unified Agenda, Tuesday
To Do
Therapist appointment Tuesday [DONE]
Wood Shop Tuesday
Take the truck in to get smogged [In Progress. Waiting for reply from the state]
Get this number on the Do Not Call list
Find a dentist
More blood work
Get latest cholestorol Rx
Look into Weight Watchers
Shopping
Hard drive enclosures
Lawn chairs and tables for back and front
Projects
Fix Truck
Look for a car that...
3 tags
Today's Music Acquisitions
Albums:
Cyndi Lauper - True Colors
The Best of Santana
Fleetwood Mac - Greatest Hits
More Abba Gold
The Who Sell Out
Songs:
Good Charlotte - I Don’t Wanna Be In Love
(via Amazon MP3 Store)
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Unified Agenda, Monday
To Do
Therapist appointment Tuesday
Wood Shop Tuesday
Send in truck registration, and/or smog extension [DONE]
Take the truck in to get smogged [In Progress. Waiting for reply from the state]
Take the truck in to get its battery terminal fixed [Deferred. I might have fixed it myself. Time will tell.]
Connect up the DSL service that’s supposed to be active today [DONE]
Get caller ID...