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I guess there hasn't been that much to say lately. Last weekend I ended up coming down with something nasty, which kept me in bed all day Saturday, feeling like crap Sunday, and back in bed (after two hours of work) on Monday.
So my ex-girlfriend and another friend of ours are now engaged - the same two people who we set up on a blind date in April. Scary. I could be mean and post the contents of some e-mails from after their second data, but I think I'll wait until they are married;-)
Oh, and I quit Lexmark. Well, I gave my boss notice. I'll probably end up doing this for another couple of weeks.
Random note to Madison-area drivers. This city has a lot of bike lanes. That's good. However, they aren't only for bikes. To quote the signs, "Bicycles and right turns only". The key phrase here is RIGHT TURNS. What am I trying to say? If you're making a right turn, GET OVER. It amazes me how many people will happily make a right turn when there's a good car and a half of road between them and the curb. Not only is it confusing for people who actually *do* get over to turn left, but it blocks through traffic as well.
BTW, I still can't rip audio with my CD-RW. I talked to Dennis, who has the same drive and the same OS, and his works fine. Hrmm.
And I forgot to mention...replacing various exhaust pipes on the car cost me close to $350 today. Damn chemical reaction between iron and oxygen...
I got suckered into the little secret santa thing at work, despite the fact that I said I wasn't going to do it. Damn peer pressure.
So OS X is currently giving me a major headache. I've got my Plextor CD-RW drive in (1210S), which worked flawlessly under OS 9. Under OS X it burns and reads data fine, but digital audio extraction ('ripping') causes the entire OS to freeze - something I didn't think OS X was supposed to do. I've tried flashing the firmware on the drive, switching which SCSI bus it's on (I have two cards), adding iTunes burning support, and playing with the SCSI termination, but nothing works. What the hell can it be doing that the entire OS freezes up? I thought perhaps it was an issue with the SCSI card, but the fact that it does the same thing on both cards and burning and data both work fine leads me to believe it isn't that.
I've thought about putting on some type of "what I'm listening to now" thing here, but I never get around to it. The tunes of the moment are Badfinger's No Dice and Straight Up (DCC gold versions, of course).
DOB 2/16/79. I'm a web developer at the Wisconsin Department of Corrections. I like lots of old music, including The Who. I spend a lot of time working with computers. And my favorite TV show (when I actually decide to watch TV, that is), obviously, is The Simpsons.
In May 2002 I officially graduated from the University of Wisconsin with a BS in computer science. In 1997 (man that seems like a long time ago) I graduated from Washington Park HS. Yes, I know, that site isn't very impressive, and no, I haven't touched it for several years.
One of the best experiences I have ever had was on a trip called Western Field Studies. This is a 33 day adventure throughout the western United States. Students travel on a school bus to national parks, monuments, forests, and places of historical interest and camp out (in tents or under the stars). I was a part of trip 25, which took place in the summer of 1996. A first for WFS was we took along a laptop computer and kept up a web site. That link will take you to the 1996 site, where there is a link to the current site.	
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I could never figure out why everybody talked about spring baseball around here, when Park always played during the summer. Finally, an answer:
Prep baseball has two seasons in Wisconsin � spring and summer. According to the National Federation of State High School Associations (NFHS), Iowa is the only other state in the nation to offer summer baseball.
The spring season begins in late March and runs through the second week of June. The summer season typically begins the fourth week of May and goes until the final week of July.
I've been playing the contacts game again. I've had rigid gas permeable contacts since 1993, and my pair is actually from 1993 or 1994. A few years ago I noticed my eyes were pretty red and during my yearly checkup my current eye doctor agreed to try some things to reduce the redness. He is a big fan of soft contacts, and while I wasn't thrilled with the prospect of switching, I agreed to try them. We tried 3 or 4 different pairs, but my vision wasn't as good, and my eyes were still a bit red with some of them. After giving up with that, we tried some different RGP designs, but those had problems too. Eventually we ended up with a pair that was supposed to be identical to the pair I already had, but I still wasn't comfortable with those and ended up just wearing my old pair.
Fast forward to my yearly appointment a month or two ago. We tried a bunch of different soft contacts again, but again with no success. Right now I'm trying some different RGP's again, and while my vision is mostly fine, my eyes seem to be just as red or worse. I wish I knew what the heck was going on.
I like rain. A lot. I like the sound of it falling, I like the muted look it gives things, and sometimes I even like being out in it. I love thunderstorms.
Sunday morning it was pouring, so I went out and took a look at how things were holding up. There was quite a bit of water pouring over the gutter on one side of the house, so after it stopped and cleared up a bit, I went up and cleaned that out. So far so good. I've never been happy with the downspouts, though, so after a trip to Home Depot, I started to rebuild them using PVC. Of course, it started to rain about then, so I only got two of the four done.
Then it started to rain *harder*. My PVC contraption wasn't quite working how I wanted it to, and that nasty thing called gravity was channeling a good bit of the water right to the corner of the house. With no shirt on and it coming down even harder, I went out to move the pipes around. Problem temporarily solved.
Unfortunately, ponds were still forming in various places around the house. Eventually some water started to seep in from under and around the stairs. Nothing compared to some of the disasters at the old house, but still enough to make a good sized puddle. It didn't create too much of a disaster, but now I have to figure out how to get under the stairs and have Basement Systems come out to look at things.
Blah - somehow I managed to get sick. Wednesday night I started getting drainage down my throat, and for the past couple days I've been blowing a lot and have generally felt out of it. Today was a little better than yesterday, but I stayed home both days. Hopefully I perk up soon.
Last week was my Little Rock trip. Pretty whirlwind, but it was still nice to get away. I just wish airlines designed their planes for 6'6" folks. Anyway, I took a bunch of photos which are here.
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