The coldest winter I ever spent
Archive for June 2005
I’m writing from my old friend Zim’s house in Denver Colorado. This at the end of 3 days travel. I spent each night in Elyria OH, Iowa City Iowa, a campground west of Grand Island Nebraska, and now Denver!
Tomorow I’m seeing Stevie near Boulder. Then it’s on to the south and Arizona. I think the Grand Canyon and some other spectacular places are in my future.
I’m so glad I stopped to see Zim, his wife and son. They’re just terrific.
Later!
Turning PC off now. Withdrawl symptoms imminent.
I meant Thursday. Yeah. Thursday morning, bright and early.
Jeez, this has been the longest goodbye in the world.
I’m paying close attention to Bob Parson’s come TJIC’s come Lee’s 16 rules to live by. Especially #3.
I’ll likely be in my car, on my way west on Tuesday morning. My computer will be in a box for the next couple weeks (yipe! What ever will I do without it?!). I’ll be able to check mail only sporadically. Much better to reach me by mobile phone or email short messages to my cell at [my cell #]@tmomail.net.
My good friend Eric puts out a mailer every Friday called TGIF. He’s been doing it off and on for several years now. It’s a wonderful time waster while you’re waiting for 4:45pm to become 5pm on Friday.
Check out the tgifhumor Group on Yahoo
and sign up for the weekly list!
To give you a taste, here’s a snippet from this week’s mailer
PETA: People Eating Tasty Animals: http://mtd.com/tasty/
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Rubber Ducky You¡¦re the One: (sound) http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/rubberducky.htm
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“In November 2004, Microsoft’s second-in-command Steve Ballmer made some headlines by mentioning that Chairman Bill Gates was getting four million spams per day. At the time, I was dealing with a little spam problem of my own – I was getting around a million spams per day. I found it a little comforting that my problem wasn’t quite as bad as Bill’s. However, a couple of weeks later Ballmer corrected himself, saying he mis-remembered the stat and Gates actually gets four million per year. This means I was getting one hundred times as much spam as Bill Gates. I’ve written a tutorial explaining why I get so much crapmail and how I deal with it.”
Tutorial: http://www.acme.com/mail_filtering
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Happy 4th of July (sound): http://www.jacquielawson.com/viewcard.asp?code=1483260750
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Google’s Mirror elgooG – http://elgoog.rb-hosting.de/index.cgi
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HotHotHot The Nets Coolest Net Shop since 1994! – http://hothothot.com It¡¦s not what you think, shame on you, although you should handle with care.
I’m offering a bunch of my stuff on Freecycle before I move, mostly to save on disposal charges and the hassle of hauling it to wherever. Turns out that giving stuff away is a hassle too.
I posted the stuff. In 15 minutes everything was spoken for. Hurray!
After 12 hours, I had 20+ responses. Everybody loves “free”. Yeah, whatever.
I was a bit bothered that some people emailed, asking for all kinds of details… details that I had already given in the photo or description. Apparently beggars can be choosers and even stupid choosers.
After a day, 5 of the 6 takers either didn’t return my call or backed out. Fuckers.
Now I’ve got to go down the list and try to find more takers… and more takers.
Next time, my OFFER letter will look like this:
I have a beautiful widget that can be yours if you can pick it up in [town] between the hours of [n] and [n] on [today or today +1]. Here is a photo of it: http:http://lee.org/[photo]
Email me with your name, phone number and a time to call in the next 12 hours and I’ll call you. If you aren’t available when I call, I’ll offer it to another.
As you can guess, I’ve postponed my drive out west just slightly. It might seem odd but I’m going around the house and scanning all of the photos in the house into my computer. I should have started doing this a while ago so I’d be ready to go when I said I’d be ready (on the 9th) but… I don’t know… I think it’s that just after my parents arrived and we started looking over the photos in this box I had this realization.
Every time, my dad would say, “Oh, I don’t want to look at all those old pictures,” or, “Oh, I didn’t know there were pictures in there ” (even though it’s a stack of open shoeboxes completely stuffed with thousands of photos sitting in a prominent corner of the room). Then I’d pick up some photos, “ooh” and “ahh” at them for a moment and he’d start look over my shoulder. We’d then share 15 minutes of history together. This has happened a couple times.
I have this fear that the photos and the memories that back them are going to disappear somehow. Maybe accidentally get thrown out, or burned in a fire, or just forgotten in the back of a 150 degree attic for 10 years.
So I’m taking things into my own hands.
In the last few days, I’ve scanned 700 out of about 2,000 photos.
So, I’ll make it out of here soon!! Of course, if I don’t leave by Friday, there’s a cousin’s graduation party I’ll have to go to on Saturday.. And then Father’s Day is Sunday…. Argh!
I decided to donate to the WordPress project since the program has helped me so much. While donating, I noticed that the receiver, Matthew Mullenweg has received 269 Paypal payments. Only 269?! There are more than 100,000 users!
Well, I put my buck in the hat.
Donating to WordPress will make you feel good. (and you’ll find out Matt’s phone number during the Paypal transaction!)
Sure, you might not care about this… but I’m going to SF Tivoless. I might buy one when I get comfy, or maybe not (oh, who am I kidding, I am completely addicted to vitamin T)
In no particular order (I thought about ordering them but which do I put first, “guilty pleasures” or “feelgood”, “easy to watch” or “engrossing”?
