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Monthly Archives: September 2009

Sad in a good way I guess

29-Sep-09

Nora dumped her pacifiers last night. This and potty training were the things I feared. Potty training isn’t going well at all, so as a consolation prize we started suggesting to dump the pacis. She doesn’t need them – she hasn’t had them in the car for months now (though, those were some brutal car [...]

Saw that coming

26-Sep-09

The last truck video was the last time it ran. Blah. It seems I completely burnt out the motor – it was a couple of runs coming – the car wouldn’t immediately move unless I pushed it, and I had switched out the gearing without tearing down the motor. Part of the reason was that [...]

Gripes

25-Sep-09

Google Voice is off the hook awesome. Lisa and I learned that by changing a few settings, you can have the call forward to your phone, but if you decide to send it voicemail, it goes to google voice’s inbox. Then, if you wanted, you could have the vm translated to text and texted to [...]

Horsepower

23-Sep-09

I should go to work, but I don’t quite feel like it yet. – Going downhill, with my foot literally pushed down as far as it could go, my car managed to go from 60 to 70 in about 10 seconds. The person behind me was patient enough to wait for me to merge onto [...]

Neighborly

18-Sep-09

In the first half of the video, you can hear our neighbor’s leaf blower. He has one of those pro blowers, so the whole neighborhood can hear it. Get the latest Flash Player to see this player. [Javascript required to view Flash movie, please turn it on and refresh this page] As you can see, [...]

Upgrades

17-Sep-09

The parts came in, so I got down to work. I upgraded the driveshaft to carbon fiber, and swapped out the spur and pinon gears. This process took eons, as 1) I had no idea what I was doing, 2) installed things backwards, and 3) was sleepy. End result? It does things that it didn’t [...]

No weekend weekends

16-Sep-09

We have to drive to Lisa’s parents this weekend. It’s not that I don’t like them, it’s just that I hate the drive. It’s a killer five hour journey, if we don’t stop for more than a few minutes, Nora sleeps for part of it, the weather is good, and we speed. Ultimately what happens [...]

Burnt out on politics again

15-Sep-09

I’ve been telling Lisa that I want to join a club – something, anything to go outside and interact with people and such. Not that I don’t have wonderful friends, but nobody is in a position to buzz to go do something on the spur of the moment. And technically speaking, neither am I. However, [...]

Obsessed much?

13-Sep-09

Yes, absolutely. That’s Nora’s truck, which she is driving. We haven’t played with it since getting the new one, since her truck, though huge, can’t really drive on the grass. Nor does it have the theatrics of driving on the street as my truck. This could be be in relation to the badly damaged spur [...]

Excited!

11-Sep-09

Congratulations to Mary and Michael, who delivered Benjamin Vincent R. The boy is as cute as a button, and very attentive. He’s got some lungs on him too. I’m thrilled that our boys will be so close in age. I couldn’t help but backslap Michael repeatedly. I’m sure he’s bruised but seriously, can you blame [...]