I’m making a simple apple pie. This will be my first ever. If it’s pretty when it’s done I’ll post a picture.
Ok, it’s kinda pretty. Here’s a picture of it.
You can follow this a bit better on my implant blog. Just returned from the extraction and a bit groggy. Starting to feel a bit hungry too.
I am now officially retired. That doesn’t mean I’m done working but it does mean I’m taking some time off.
It felt really strange coming home yesterday knowing I don’t have a job. I would be very scared if I didn’t have 2 things going for me. One, I’ve got a really good pension from Hughes/Boeing. Two, I’ve got a pretty good skill from those 21 1/2 years at Hughes/Boeing so I will be able to work again in a few months.
I’m taking off at the very least 2 or 3 months and the most 5 or 6. I’ll probably get bored soon but I do have some stuff to keep me busy around here. I’ve got a bathroom that needs to be painted and have a new floor and I’ve got a workbench in my garage that I haven’t seen in years.
I also think I will take my wife to Hawaii in a few months. We would like to see it before we aren’t able to.
There is a Beta version for Thunderbird 3 available. I usually jump on betas but since I’m not sure what this might do to my email I’m not going to try this yet. If you want to here’s the link.
William Ayers. Jeremiah Wright. Michael Pfleger. Tony Rezko. Rod Blagojevich. Barack Obama.
Can you say “bad choice of friends”?
I’m getting implants!!!
Here’s a very stange but interesting link to something going on this Thanksgiving weekend.
This is put on by an Internet group called LoadingReadyRun.com. They are a group of kids in Victoria BC that make videos that they hope will become viral. Some do, some don’t but this weekend they are playing a game called Desert Bus. They are raising money for a charity called Childs Play which helps kids somehow.
Desert Bus is a game by Penn & Teller that was never actually sold but somehow got onto the internet. It consists of driving an empty school bus from Tucson to Las Vegas at 45 MPH in real time. There are no cars on the road and no real scenery except for an occasional tree and supposedly a bug splats on the windshield at about hour 5. If you make it to Las Vegas you earn a point and have to decide if you are going to drive back to try to earn another point. I guess you can do this as long as you want. If the bus goes off the road and crashes it gets towed back to Tucson in real time and you can start all over.
At any rate it’s interesting to watch the feeds and see sleep deprived kids doing silly things.