BioHell
While Mel was shopping at Borders last night, I sat and read a book. I was moderately interested in it based on the back cover. It was a sci-fi with nano-tech enhanced humanity (for a price) and zombies, apparently.
Anyway, the author was _terrible_. He suffered from being unable to describe anything with few than three adjectives or adjective phrases. Everything was superlative. In prologue, the hero kills a three aliens of a race previously supposed to be extinct. By their very existence, they had killed entire colony *planets*. Yet our hero kills them bare-handed.
After his successful kills, he heads to a bar. Inevitably, a female of unparralelled attractiveness walks in. The author describes the effect that this woman has on the main character as “literally poleaxing him”. Except that there are no poleaxes involved, so I’m fairly certain the author just doesn’t know what the word “literally” means. The next two sentences cement in this fact: “My jaw dropped. It actually dropped.”. Our unfortunate author could have used “literally” to good effect in that sentence.
Anyway, avoid “BioHell” unless you’re looking for a laugh at the author’s expense. (:
Blog’s back
My webhost had a raid array fail (long story: drive fails, they replace drive, try to rebuild array, array fails). It took out all my websites. They had the server back up after 4-5 days, but took almost two weeks to get the files restored from tape.
Now, I have to work get get things moved back to where they belong. It’s a bit of a pain, since I was using slightly more than half of my webspace prior to the backup.
I think I’m going to petition for a larger space allotment in the name of customer retention.
Thin soled shoes
Lately I’ve been wearing a pair of shoes with really thin soles. They’re probably somewhere between 1/4″ and 3/8″ thick. They’re fun to walk in because they’re so quiet, I don’t make any noise when I’m walking. Interestingly, I find myself standing up straighter when I had them on. Do the soles of one’s shoes really affect posture that much?
Bruised my palm
Last night at ultimate I caught a disc that was apparently thrown hard enough to bruise my palm. It’s not overly painful but I’m definitely aware of the injury.
First frost of the year
First heavy frost hit the house yesterday. It’s hard to see it in the landscape picture, but the ground was quite white. It should be easier to see on the picture of the jeep.
Scary costumes
Two of my coworkers made masks out of my face. They surprised me with them. I wasn’t expecting myself to be so scary!
Skimpy onion
Mel and I grabbed Steak and Shake on the way back home last night. Here’s a picture of the onions on my burger.
Veggie/chicken pasta
This is a pasta dish that I made for mel the other night. She really enjoyed it and insisted that it was picture worthy. That being the case, I figured I would post the picture here, for lack of a better plan.
It contains onion, green pepper, asprarugus, chicken and tomato. The linguini was boiled with a Thai pepper for flavor. Lastly it is covered with shredded mozzarella and garnished with fresh basil.
Speeding tickets and insurance
I learned an interesting fact today. I called my insurance provider’s office to find out if I should take the deferral on my speeding ticket. She was quite helpful in making a decision. Apparently, whether you take the deferral or not the insurance company finds out about the ticket, despite what the county clerk would have you think. The only difference is that the points don’t go on your license at the BMV.
The weird part is that the base ticket price is $150 but the deferral price is $225. That’s 50% more! That feels a little bit like extortion. “Hey, we know you’re in trouble here, how about if you pay us extra, and we make this like it never happened?”
Am I way off base with that feeling? Is there a better way to look at it that I’m missing?
Traffic ticket saga
Nothing is ever simple. I got caught in a speed trap a few weeks ago. Normally I do the speed limit, but I got caught in a place where the speed transitions from 50->35 fairly abruptly. The cop didn’t put the cost of the ticket on the ticket, so I have to call a Marian county office to get the cost. I’ve called seven times so far. Everytime, its either busy or goes to a message that says they are closed (even though its during their listed business hours). They also have a website, but the website can’t find my ticket’s serial number.
What an annoyance.