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i didn't fly over you trek, but i did do a really long wave. i still need to get my arm back from how far i stretched. i think i pulled my shoulder out of the joint.
BM3 i'm going for a run right now through the woods on all the neat trails here so you don't need to. i need to get on this time schedule. thanks for the thought though.
Enjoy the trails. :) I am off for my run.
Well, I'm taking a break. Got everything done but wash and wax on the car. Too cold and now it's getting dark.
So, CWR is on her way from AK to AZ by way of WV, huh? Makes total sense to me, although it probably shouldn't I guess.
HI CWR!!! **looking skyward and waving like a mad woman**
Kit - It was very superficial. A while ago when I was parked, someone must have tried to pull into the space next to me and caught the corner of my back bumper. They dimpled it way up in. It took some McGuyver-type rigging (you wouldn't believe me if I told you) and I popped it back out on my own but the scrape was still there. I have touchup paint for my color so today I just cleaned it up, painted it and buffed it smooth. Not too bad looking. You really gotta be looking closely to see it. I also repaired some tiny paint chips on the hood and front bumper.
CyclChyk - I take the 5th. (for once :rolleyes: )
Heading out to find a cute little Jeep next. The lots should be closed by now and I can peruse without getting harrassed. My bro D. is gonna hook me up with a hitch and do all the custom rack work for me when I'm ready. He made some small adjustments to my design to incorporate a bike and kayak setup. He's doesn't quite get why I love this stuff but he supports me 100% without questioning. (((D.))) One of my favorite people in the whole world.
I think I'd get it, actually. The repair, that is. Some dumb-*** rearended my metro a few years ago so I had to undo all the clips holding the interior facade in place and use my hand (and a rubber hammer) to put everything back where it should be. I was lucky it didn't stretch the metal beyond a good popping, but it did leave a crease there forever afterward. :mad:
That was nothing next to installing the car audio system, though... (audiophile!)
It's worth it to crank DG's techno, look into the rearview and see the speakers thump with the bass. Woo! :D
the trails are so nice to run on here. though i could barely hear anything else besides the crunch of the leaves. ahhhh.... fall. saw over a dozen deer. all females. they just watched me run by, didn't even think twice of running away. a couple i guess i wasn't entertaining enough for them because they went right back to eating. well phewy on them too!
bad thing.... feet are really hurting. :(
You crazy girls with your binary schminary stuff!
Happy Bday X! I'm impressed with your auto body abilities;)
CWR, glad you made it to WV. Thanks for the wave - gottcha.
I was a good girl today and went to church *pats self on back*. Then I went for a run and dog #! poos. Next corner dog #2's turn. Geez. Then 2 boys new to the hood HAD to pet the dogs so I stopped again. Actually, I had such a knot (no, not you dear) in my left calf I had to stop anyway. What causes that? We ended up doing 4 miles then I hopped on the bike and rode 22 miles. Now I'm tired. And hungry. So I'm off to eat and then hitting the road to get my little guy back. Yippee!!
Cbl.
dar just checked out your match.com sight, and i think it looks great! if i find anyone to fit operations FROG i'll let you know.
Went to church, did the non-creedal faith thang; then ran errands like a madwoman.
Finally home, too tired to do much of anything but make dinner. (Do you hear the laundry calling me? No? Well, neither do I. Back to TD.)
Tonight's repast:
Jambalaya. Chocolate and fruit for dessert.
How many places should I set at the table?
And there's still a little chicken stew left if anyone would rather have that.
I love the smell of Jambalaya cooking. Just turned it down to simmer. It's such a nice autumnal cozy-food smell.
Oh, by the way, I made the Jambalaya with brown rice, which will automatically negate any ill-effects from the chocolate for dessert. Right?
I need somebody to be prep cook for me and chop up the broccoli. Before I let you use my cleaver, though, you have to pass the all important "does she know the CORRECT way to hold a knife?" test.
One of my many jobs in my past was prep cook/dishwasher in a tiny little expensive seafood restaurant. I know how to hold a knife...:D
i can prep for ya Knot. i'm good at chopping things, i mean food, but if you need something else have your people call my people, we'll do lunch.
Boy, talk about a blast from the past! Binary code!Quote:
Originally Posted by Xrayted
I should explain,
My first "professional" job was an assembly language programmer. For non-geeks, this is language where you say if bit 6 is on, go to this instruction, only a bit less elegantly (i,e BBST 6(R1),L0101) The company had managed to lose a tape that the mnemonic version of some program that they were having a problem with. I was assigned the task of reading the Binary (or our case, Octal) code, producing a human readable program, and finding the error.
One day, one of the senior programmer dropped by my cube and asked what the boss had me working on. She thought for a while, and finally said "Oh, that old so-and-so was working on when Committed suicide:eek: )
I did get that one fixed . (hint. a bed scheduling program shouldn't call the Indiana state payroll tax deduction calculator;) )
Only two more day till the election here in states. I'm glad I work late, two days of
"My opponent is a lair and a weasel"
"Are Not"
"Am Too"
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Originally Posted by KnottedYet
You make the best dinners! I so wish I lived closer. I am great at clean-up...will clean for food. :D
Besides a great run, today cannot be over soon enough. I did send DH on a SB hunt. Yum!
Fredwina- Was that with or without punchcards? I don't want to overguess the era, but the concept of computers using punch cards is just wild to me... The things you miss, jumping through space-time... :rolleyes:
Punchcards were fun. Your could make the holes spell things and use them as Christmas cards.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
(sigh) No Jeep yet. :( But I did see something that caught my eye... A decrepit Yugo with a Univ. of Notre Dame Alumni license plate on the bumper. I truly love ND but that had me rollin'.
Well Kit, close but no. I warned you. Here's the story...
So you know what kind of car we're talking about, I have a Chrysler Sebring Conv. I didn't take off the bumper or quarter panel. (the clips were about impossible to get at) I hoisted it up on a floorjack and chocked all the wheels good. (If it fell on me, would that qualify me for an "X marks the spot" sign? Or better yet, "spot marks the X"? :rolleyes:) I crawled under there and tried using a rubber mallet from the inside but, you guessed it, not enough room. Walked around muttering under my breathe for a few minutes. I hate paying some guy to do something that I should be able to figure out. Ding, ding, ding, we have a winner! I got my crudy little scissors jack out of the trunk, cut some small 2x4 wooden blocks and went back up in there. I placed the blocks up in the dimple, (I love duct tape!) and put the jack in between them and the frame. Then I just screwed the jack open until the blocks pushed the dimple out. I had to reposition a few times to get it all but it worked. I'm not a big beer drinker but I certainly needed one after that. **shakes head** Told you you wouldn't believe me. :D I swear I do everything azz backwards just to punish myself.
I've personally installed every car stereo I've ever had except for one car cuz I ordered it that way. No massive woofers for me. I like to hear more than just the base line. For me, the heart of a song comes from the layering, shadows, inflection...
Hey, CWR! Sounds like you had a great run. How long you in WV for? do a drive by up here and pick me up. I can't seem to escape on my own. :D
*BIG SHINY EYES*Quote:
Originally Posted by Xrayted
I do declare...
You, X, are givin' me the vapors!
:D
How have I not met you yet?! PA?! That's much too far. That won't do at all. We'll have to fix that. CWR? Could you pick X up and drop her off in Portland on your way back? Thanks!
We're gonna play with my little blue racecar. :D
Oh, yeah! Great piles of old punchcards with "x" over them, and use the other side for scribbly notes.Quote:
Originally Posted by DebW
I remember scheduling for classes, you'd go to the gym, stand in line for the class you wanted, hope there was still a punch card left for that class when you got there.
After you got your cards (and often you had to change your schedule, cuz if there weren't cards left the class was full) you took the stack to the scheduler, who fed them into the machine and then gave you your official schedule.
KNOT - I love jambalaya!! Eat some for me??
KIT - you are too young to know about vapors. Next you will be telling us you know nuthin 'bout birthin' no babies!
X - ya gotta have woofers, at least in the south. (Its a redneck thing.....;))
CWR - I almost used my Photo Editor to crop incriminating evidence and post the remains but my DH said it would probably NOT be appreciated..... he's so much more considerate than me.... Glad your trip was safe!
*huffs* It's *not* a redneck thing. :mad:
It's a techno thing. And if your rearview mirror doesn't vibrate just a little, your system needs TLC. ;)
That was far more sophisticated than MIT in 1974. You picked classes (on paper) and turned in the list. The computer printed your schedule. If it couldn't fit you into the classes you requested you got a schedule that said "one hour for lunch unless unavoidable conflict". I think about 20% of the students got that schedule. Yes, MIT was on the forefront of the computer age :rolleyes: But everyone ate lunch without fail.Quote:
Originally Posted by KnottedYet
Back to punch cards. If the card punch machines weren't enough to make you deaf and fray every nerve in your body, then there were the card readers. They made lots of errors. They failed in the middle of a 200 card deck. But the worst one I ever used was the one that bent your card every time it read them, and then would not read them again because they were bent. You had to store them in a card drawer with objects inserted at various points to try and bend them back overnight so they could be read again. And almost as bad as the cards and readers was JCL for IBM 360/370 computers. This was a computer language consisting of "//DDxx" and things like that. I never did understand it.
I swear I was born on the wrong side of the country. :D See CWR, Kit agrees, do a drive by or fly by or whatever!
***quietly the Animals are playing in the backround on an old 45***
We gotta get out of this place
If it's the last thing we ever do...
Nah, no big woofers poundin' me in the chest. I trust my heart to pick it's own pace, thankyouverymuch. I pretty much listen to just about anything. I'm always up for something new with few exceptions... just can't handle Rap or Hip Hop/boy group type of stuff. Or hate rock. Blech.
Overall, I'd rather have music on anytime than the tv. I literally go days without turning the tv on. (50" w/ s-s setup) I haven't watched a current tv show in I don't know when. Couldn't tell ya what's on these days. I used to help create TV Guide and I had no idea if I was putting the right pic on the cover. :o Loooove Seinfeld and Fraser reruns tho. Intelligent comedy that doesn't make you more stupid for having watched it.
Yeh but picture 2 bookshelf type subwoofers mounted in the back window of a 1971 Fastback Mustang....... REDNECK!!!.....thats what my brother did to his and I am the lucky car keeper while he retires from the Army in Germany..... go figure. Oh, and let's not leave out the centerline rims. :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
and X - there IS a better life. It involves winning the lotto...... and you still use a turntable?????????????
[QUOTE=KnottedYet;141548]Tonight's repast:
Jambalaya. Chocolate and fruit for dessert.
mmmmmm. I love Jambalaya!!!! Care to share the recipe? It gets cold here too.
Martha
Love Fraiser, hate Seinfeld. Dunno what it is. We have *a* TV, but it doesn't have an antenna (just DVDs for that TV) so I'm 'with ya'. I don't like "hate rock" but I love Manson (that is *not* hate rock. It's not.), old-school Punk (Ramones, Sex Pistols, Revolting Cocks, Bad Religion -esp. their '80-85 album-) and then the old-old stuff that's just timeless- Beatles, Stones, Jimi, Janis and Jim... ;)
Economy, technology, does it really work?
The guy running the government's another jerk
Try to teach some values and they all erode away
You're lucky if they listen to a single word you say.
What is right and what is wrong, government decides
You don't have to like the laws as long as you abide
We're all being oppressed by the upper-middle class
The government you vote for is the one that you possess.
I'm so tired and now I'm through, I'm through and so are you
Oppressive fear from presidents, it's us, not the government
We control the masses of the whole entire race
Soon our streets will all get filled without a happy face. Bad Religion- Politics- '81
You could pick up and move, I'm sure St. Vince's here could use an X-rayted technician... ;)
And we will *not* start the vinyl vs. CD "discussion" here... ;)
CyclChyk - OMG, you know what a 45 is? Ya old woman. :p Think I got a turntable (or record player as they were called back in the day) stashed somewhere in a closet. Not sure.
And on the 'Stang, I'll be there at dawn for a spin. What he don't know won't hurt him. We'll just turn back the odometer like Ferris. :cool: Oh, wait, that didn't work, did it? Shoot. Well, I know how to unhook the cable so we're still golden. Do you have keys or do I need to bring my "tools"? :D :D
That's X-rayted Technologist, dear. St. Vince's huh? Do I have to be Catholic? Cuz I just don't think my knees could take it. Maybe I could just listen to confessions? :eek:Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
*suppresses awful urge to make an awful joke* X, thou leadest me to temptation.
I don't think you have to be Catholic. Sorry I messed up your title... I still want you to help me install the turbo chip in my little blue racecar and maybe take 'er for a spin sometime... ;)
Turbo huh? Ever try Nitrox? Nah, better not, we'd get arrested. Would be fun tho.
I'm gonna ignore what I think you were gonna say cuz I'm nice like that. ;)
Thanks. :) I've been told I could try Nitrox, but the risk of blowing seals (Neons and head gaskets... it's a love-hate relationship...) and cracking the engine block are just... not things I want to do. The cold air intake and flo-thru exhaust system *coughsemiillegalmufflercough* help up the HP too. It's my baby. Now I wanna bike commute so I never have to drive 'er. :D
Are you doing all this sh*t to a Geo Metro!?!?!?!
HA! No. *sniff* The metro was my baby and my first car. This is a '01 Dodge Neon. yeah, cheap, I know, but cheap and with minimal modding you can make it one of the fastest Dodges on the market (aside from the SRT-4, Charger and the Viper)... so... yeah. :) I've never been clocked, but I did have a good run on I-5 with a Camaro where we both topped out at ~120. :D
OMG!!! Kit you just kill me! I may as well just sell the tv. This is so much better.
Flo-thru... I knocked out the baffles on my Harley to get a little sound. Then went to straight pipes, rejetted the carb and ZOOOOM! Sadly, I'm supposed to be a grown up now. S**ks.
"grown up" just means you haven't managed to kill yourself before reaching maturity. Either tone it down or try harder. ;)
You should *hear* the purr the engine makes. It idles at a G flat and coordinates remarkably well with Tool. :D
OI..What is it with you ladies? OI..Stop posting so much. Those of us at work can't keep up with yers..:(
Hawumph I say..:(
It's so hard to come to TD and try not to giggle whilst working...
Yummmyy lunch...Want some fruit salad?
c
Yeh well my first record player played 78's, 45's AND 33's.... Now if I had a Victrola THEN I would be old ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Xrayted
Come on down - I got keys and we have to get the manual choke warmed up but Man does that baby purr!!! You ok with Skynard??Quote:
Originally Posted by Xrayted
(We just can't crash it like Cameron did.... Frank might get a little pissed if I did that )
You ladies promise me you'll pick me up on this little joyride, okay? :o
OY X!! You killing me here with the memories. My DH's first bike after we got together was a Kawi Classic 800 (he later upgraded to the 1500; looked alot like a Fatboy) but anyhoo, we knocked out the baffles too and dam* was that thing LOUD! I still have the scar on my calf from the pipe when I "dismounted" from the wrong side of that baby.....Quote:
Originally Posted by Xrayted
Sigh - those were the good ol days.
Ok KIT but you and X get to fight over shotgun cuz I'm driving first!
Kit, that job was really back to the future. In 1984, we had a hospital with CPU that used Vacuum tube memory....Quote:
Originally Posted by Kitsune06
Punch cards: It was decided that I had promise as a systems programmer, and they could not get parts for the punch card readers, so I was given the task of making the punch card drivers read a tape drive. The instructions we sent to the sites was to read the cards we sent first, then read the tape with my programs. you can guess which order the operators followed. fun job, but the company went bankrupt.
anyway, Monday, I go back to being a career dinosaur... COBOL is so much fun.. not Maybe I can get some more Java studying done.
CyclChyk - South Carolina, 71 'stang, Skynard... ah, I think I'm home! :D
I went to a Skynard concert last year. First concert in a looong time. They still kick azz. Nuthin' like a little southern fried rock to get the blood pumpin'.
Get this... SO fell asleep during the show!?! (Yeah, I know. :confused:, right??) SO also got bored at the Earth, Wind and Fire/Chicago concert. Started nodding off so was sent for a nice cleansing walk. No more concerts w/ SO. Period! **shakes head** At least I don't have to sit still anymore. I can get up and rock as hard as I want when I go with my GF's. What happens at the show, stays at the show. :D
Ok X, I can accept that you fell asleep at an EW&F concert, but Skynard??? :eek: How is that humanly possible??? Do you have an "L" tat on your forehead?? ;) I realize Ronnie is no longer with us (may he rest in peace) but we still have Johnny and Donnie.......
I can't believe you feel asleep..... just for that KIT is riding shotgun and you are banished to the back seat......:D
(my last concert was in July - it was Def Leppard and "Journey" (if you can still call them that). I tried to rock out but my DH got a lil embarassed so I have to "act like an adult" - GAG )