OMG its cold

Man this house sucks at holding in heat. We have one of those houses where it doesn’t have an attic so it doesn’t have the ability to hold in the heat. I’ve ran around the house making sure all of the windows are closed and that the

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DSC06181 Originally uploaded by abstrakone. Well I got our Xmas lights up. I used the handy dandy chrismas light awning clips they sell at Big Lots. They made a 3 hour job into a 30min job! Thanks Xinu and Ivamae for the tip!

Podcast

Quick podcast from last night. http://www.abstrakone.com/podcasts/abstrakONE-11-23-2005.mp3 Note: * And no, the march of the penguins movie doesnt come out for another week (Nov 29th). I ended up renting Charlie and the Chocolate Factory instead. * I learned that there are a ton of accessories being traded

Sickies

Well, My family is getting sick again. This time is a weird stomach head throat thing. Jen and I have had headaches for a few days now, Caitlin is perfectly fine, Chris threw up at school, and Jessalyn coughs every so often and has been getting a stuffy nose. I

Utah Student Building Hybrid ‘32 Ford

Brett Singleton, a student at a Utah technology college is converting a ’32 Ford from a not-so-enviro-friendly lead-fueled engine over to a primarily electric hybrid engine. The engine Singleton is designing is different from other hybrid engines because it is primarily going to run on the electric motor rather than

NadaChair Backup

I know a lot of people on my LJ and blog sit at computers all day long, I saw this on engadget and thought I would share: http://www.nadachair.com/backup.html If you buy one tell me how it worked out.

Target and the word Christmas

Jen and I were talking about this a while back but it was about Walmart, well heres the Target side of things: Claim: Target has eschewed use of the phrase “Merry Christmas” from its in-store promotions and public advertising. Status: True. http://www.snopes.com/politics/business/targetxmas.asp

Pictures

Something fun to share

Take a picture of your office space and post it as a comment, then post this in your blog so others can post pictures of their office space. I’ll start it off, here’s mine:

Weekend Update

Saturday we went Jen’s Ex’s family’s Thanksgiving. We drove down to Sandra’s house and met up with the family. Traffic was a nightmare on the 5 freeway something happened in Anaheim’ish area and it was backed up for miles. I got off the freeway and

CommuteCast

I recorded this on friday and was having some issues with WordPress so I didn’t get around to posting it over the weekend. Anyhow here it is. CommuteCast 11/18/2005 Here is some driving home postcasting for ya. abstrakONE-11-18-2005.mp3

Boondocks quote

I just finished watching the Boondocks on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim and oh man, this quote is classic: back story… Grand Dad met up with some white hooker and hes sprung on her (he’s clueless that shes a ho). The boys and him are discussing this as hes

Routines..

Speaking about routines in my previous post, I wanted to see what sort of routine you do daily. Here is a few of mine: * 10:30 I take my Water bottle to the kitchen and fill it 1/2 way (if I fill it I’ll never drink it all,