Mostly Harmless

I found it terribly amusing that I went through all the trouble of installing Movable Type and the first time I made a test post I filled up my disk quota.

I have since deleted months worth of pointless usage logs and once again have a little bit of breathing room.

Oddly, my web host is now pushing 50 megs for the same price I’m paying for 10 megs. It seems to me like they were supposed to be upgrading me as they increased the base account. Rat bastards. I’ll give them a stern talking to.

I am forced to decide between buying a house or buying a Segway at Amazon.

I think I’ll go for the house, it’ll be cheaper by the time the auction is done. Plus I’m not certain I could find a stupid rich person to buy the Segway from me for twice the price; not that I could buy it in the first place…”You want a loan for what? Bwahahahahaha!”I can’t be spending cash on trinkets though, I need to save up for another two or three months for a down payment on a house. Not that I’m actively looking or anything. I just wanna be chillin’ in the Central Air Conditioned goodness of Somewhere Else before the Big Heat of Summer rolls in.

And! My Big Ass TV (KV-35V36) is starting to show signs of dying a spectacular death, e.g. an apparent voltage surge followed by the screen going black. If I turn it off and back on it will be fine for 5 minutes or a few hours, depending on its mood and planetary alignment.

Apparently Sony’s Big Ass TVs have soldering issues (i.e. the soldering is bad), so it should be an easy enough fix for someone who will charge me upwards of $100 (or $500?). If it dies and will cost a lot to fix I’ll eventually get a different Big Ass TV — I will fail over to my redundant 20″TV if necessary (Oh the Humanity!).

Conveniently (that would be sarcasm) the TV weighs 198 lbs, so moving it is generally something that isn’t done.

I spent entirely too much time tonight doing an O-Ring and gasket overhaul on my bathroom sink, although most of that time was spent trying to get the grease out from under my fingernails once I got done.

How’d she turn out? Like a champ son, like a champ.

"I just cleaned the tub — on purpose!"

I took my new ScumBuster for a test drive tonight ’round the dangerous curves of the surly bathtub.

The verdict: Dude, you gotta get one of these! The tub hasn’t been this clean since I moved in two years ago.

I busted scum til there was no scum left to bust, yet the battery never showed signs of running down (plus, it uses the VersaPack system for easy battery swappin’ if you need continuous power).

I’ve heard of this thing called "elbow grease" and I’ll have nothing to do with it. It’s much nicer to simply apply light pressure and let the ScumBuster’s screamin 180 RPM motor and cleaning pad do the work. (OK, 180 RPM is actually quite slow, but it works plenty well.)

Today the bathtub, tomorrow the greasy stove!

Next week, the cleaning frenzy continues when my Steam Buggy arrives. (My main point in getting that is the mass murdering of dust mites. I got it for $79 + shipping; it’s $129 at Target.)

The Answer is: 42

The Question is: How many more episodes of BtVS do I need to complete the set?