Well, lots of stuff has been going on, but very little of it blogworthy. For both my readers, however, I’ll give a little summary of things that have been going on.. My wife has taken to writing a list of things to do on our bathroom mirror, where I can’t help but see it several times a day. This is really good, since I have a very short memory :).
First, there was a vent in the laundry room, and I finally got around to looking at it, and it looks like it once had a fan in it, but no longer. So I went to OSH and got a new fan and housing and had intended to put it in, but they had nailed it to the beam in the attic, from above. So I shelved that project for a while.
There was also an unpleasant smell from the washer, and we thought that perhaps the drain was clogged. As it turned out, the fabric softener had started to clog the inside of the agitator, so I ended up having to take the cup and the agitator off and clean it all out. I’ve seen some foul things in my life, but the greyish goo that I had to clean out from that washer was some of the foulest.
Then soaked them, replaced them, and ran vinegar and baking soda through the washer to get the rest of the scum out.
Then last night I climbed up in the attic to fix that fan. 45 minutes in 110 degrees covered in blown in fiberglass was not fun.
But tonight, I get to test the new Tomb Raider game, so that is SWEET.

One of my co-workers (Chris) and I get along really well. We like to talk about all manner of things and throw little posits and the like back and forth. We were talking about a game that I’m playing (Shadow Hearts: Covenant) and there is a section where it turns out that one of the characters is taken over by a demon. So that leads us to discussions of Exorcisms and the like, and Chris remarks that that kind of knowledge isn’t really available anymore, in that you can’t just take a class in Demonology. I make the point that it’s likely that Seminarians would take something similar and study exorcisim rituals, or at least that’s a feasible possibility. Chris did however bring up the point that there would be a horrible time at the final exam. And you thought that your essay questions were tough.

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I went to our sales conference this morning to see the demo of our product and it went pretty well. The sales people didn’t boo or anything. Since I’m waiting for our source tree to get merged and more things to happen, I’m basically sitting at my desk all day today, doing nothing.

I might start playing Something or not.

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I finally finished PoP:The Warrior Within this week. I got it last year for christmas, and worked my way through it till about 2/3, then got distracted. This year I got Shadow Hearts: Covenant (last year’s hot game), and I need to do the first one first, but I swore I wasn’t going to move to a new RPG till I finished PoP. I really like the game engine of PoP, the motion dynamics are so fluid, they’re amazing.

I’m also going to resolve a few things: I’d like to take my laptop with me more often. I have been not doing that and sometimes I’ll be wanting to blog and not able to, so I’d like to eliminate that as an excuse. I also want to take my journal with me and try using that more too. OK, I guess that’s one resolution.

Lastly, I’d like to write an open source blog client - I like some of the ones that are out there, but they’re either for pay or platform specific. If there was already a partially done java client, I’d take it and run, or maybe work on my own from scratch. There’s many the time that I’ve wanted one.

Also Lastly: I was thinking the other day as I drove down the road about the little lights that are in the lane dividers, the reflective bumps. When I was back in Canuckistani some time ago, I noticed a strange anomaly: that on the roads and highways there, they are embedded into the concrete - in a little rut type dealio. I didn’t think anything of it until I realized that it was done with a purpose, instead of randomly (as I assume most things are). Anyways, gotta run. Peace Out, G.

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