tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-49180893415224451122011-08-01T02:16:31.035-04:00incoherent ramblings from an incoherent ramblerbadmoodguy (Бадмўдгуи)http://www.blogger.com/profile/00737755278975395898noreply@blogger.comBlogger981100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4918089341522445112.post-58442961949849746882009-07-28T18:00:00.002-04:002009-07-28T18:27:50.173-04:00

Fig. 1: Murphy, laying in the yard.This is Murphy, our Tibetan Terrier. She was such a sweet little pain-in-the-ass. I will miss her kisses with her little soft tongue. She would get scared if someone cooked something that got a little smoky, like burgers or bacon, and she would track me down specifically and hide under my feet ... no one else's. She was stand-offish and would ignore you until

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The tape drive on a server at work went belly up yesterday. I hoped that it was something simple that I could fix, but alas, it was not.The subject tape drive is a Compaq DLT 40/80 drive that uses DLT3 tapes and can hold up to 80Gb compressed. We use this tape drive to back up the data and applications on our old minicomputer, a DEC AlphaServer 2000 which runs HP's OpenVMS. DLT drives are great .

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I went to Canada over the weekend! I went, specifically, to attend Anime North 2009 and to visit with "Piper" and "Psyche".This was the first time that I had ever been to Canada. Upon arriving at the border for the immigration checkpoint, the agent was surprised ... well, shocked, really ... that me being as old as I am and living in Ohio had never been to Canada.The trip up and back was rather

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I really do intend on blogging more. Really! I promise! I have a lot more "Nihonjin Nibbles" to do as well as I am slowly working through Orchid's care package...Within the last year my workmate and best friend CB started eating at a buffet south of town called Amar India. They put out a decent buffet spread for lunch and they are usually quite busy. It is very much enjoyable, but very much

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According to Wikipedia...Crunk is a type of music which originated from southern hip hop and EDM in the early 1990's.The term "crunky" would then be seen as something to do with this type of music, not a Japanese candy bar.Fig. 1: A Crunky chocolate bar. The Crunky bar is manufactured by Lotte, a large South Korean company. The bar appears to be the Japanese answer to Nestle's Crunch bar, though

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I have been away from blogging for far too long, so this will be the first of two today!Next in the series of Japanese Junk Food to review, and one that I have been especially excited to review is Mikan Pocky.Fig. 1: Mikan PockyI am familiar with the chocolate variety of Pocky, having had them before on shopping trips to the international market in Cincinnati. Every time I go I make sure to grab

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Over the holidays, I spent lots of time at home napping. Napping is one of my favorite activities since I lead a relatively sedentary lifestyle, especially in winter. Sleeping is not really a problem for me, it is getting to sleep that can be a nightmare.In one of the houses behind me is a family that has a dog. That, in and of itself, is not unusual. The problem is that this dog does not bark,

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Fig. 1: Halloween Theme KitKat The first item up for review is a Halloween Theme Kit-Kat. The first striking thing is the packaging. It is bright and colorful in a blue, orange and yellow themed wrapper and has some of the typical accoutrements that we Americans associate with Halloween…bats, witch’s hats, ghosts, the moon, stars and houses.Halloween seems to be a relatively appropriate holiday

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Japan: the Land of the Rising Sun, home of Japanese people, ninjas, sushi, good cars, lasers, robots, five million varieties of KitKats and VCRs. I love Japan and the idea of Japan. It has this mystery and alien-ness to it that I find so appealing. I can't quite put my finger on why; I'm not particularly fond of anime, but I love me some sushi; I could never quite bring myself to buy a Japanese

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Here's a funny one from Neatorama, one of my favorite websites in the whole wide web...There were three medieval kingdoms on the shores of a lake. There was an island in the middle of the lake, over which the kingdoms had been fighting for years. Finally, the three kings decided that they would send their knights out to do battle, and the winner would take the island.The night before the battle,

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There's a little nuthatch that keeps visiting the pine tree in my front yard for some of the many bird and squirrel goodies mother sets out for them. I managed to shoot a few pictures when it would stay still long enough, so here they are for your enjoyment.Fig. 1: Closeup at 300mm, f5.6 @ 1/125.Fig. 2: Closeup at 300mm, f5.6 @ 1/320.Fig. 3: Closeup at 300mm, f5.6 @ 1/125.I was able to get rather

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September is usually uneventful here in Ohio...as is pretty much every month. However, September of 2008 will go down in infamy as being the windiest on record. On Sunday, September 14, the remains of Hurricane Ike blew through our area and knocked out power to about 330,000 people in the Dayton area. In other words, everybody.I have never, ever heard the wind howl like this. Ever. And it wasn't

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I was planning on putting up a posting tonight about the hurricane and power outages here in Ohio, and some musings about some of the stupidity and interesting things that went on during the extended blackout. I swear I had it all ready in my head, complete with pictures!That, of course, was in a perfect world where I could come home from an extremely annoying day at work and vegetate. This, alas

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No one expects the Spanish Inquisition!The bits and pieces of Hurricane Ike blew through the Dayton area on Sunday afternoon knocking out power and throwing full-grown trees around like matchsticks. There were wind gusts of up to 75 mph throughout the area and this went on for hours and hours. About 225,000 people are still without power.I have been powerless since Sunday at 1pm EDT. Other than

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Fig. 1: The remains of Mailbox No. 2When I moved in to my little house, one of the first things I did was replace the mailbox. The mailbox that was here was kinda funky and falling apart, so I decided to get a new one to start my house on its way to a non-amateur-pharmacy identity.The post you see in figure 1, above, I purchased for it and bought a heavy duty mailbox made out of thick steel. I

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Fig. 1: Screen capture of my record Solitaire score.I play Solitaire way too much. It is pretty much a mindless game that can be easily worked in while waiting for something, to alleviate boredom or whatever. It is an interesting game because each deal results in a different combination of luck and skill required to complete the game. A lot of the time it works out that you can't place any of the

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The always lovely Orchid, in her blog entry titled Griefers, related experiences about how many people seem to get a charge out of causing pain, anguish and difficulty to others. This was in the context of an online game that her husband was playing.This type of behavior seems to happen a lot in the online world. Unfortunately, some circumstances can cause it to get out of hand quickly,

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I had some errands to run today, so I left early. After completing them, before going home, I needed to go to the car dealer to get my oil changed, tires rotated and have some annoying rattles looked at.I tried to get on the highway and was almost at the end of the ramp when I and numerous others were stopped by security escorts for the motorcade carrying presidential hopeful John McCain and his

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I was aggravated today at work and decided to play a few hands of Solitaire on my computer rather than deal with dumb things and people. In one game I played, I beat it in 93 seconds for an end score of 8,222.It is these pointless, stupid little victories that can make life kinda sweet and calm the nerves.

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Fig. 1: The Art of Dan, in his Black & White period.The image above was sent to me by my friend, Chris, whom I work with. It was drawn by his son, Dan. It was sent along by his wife...Chris' wife, not Dan's...with the following (unedited) explanation as was dictated to her by the artist himself.The attached illustration depicts how Daniel views his family lifestyle.On the left, we notice that he

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I believe that the image below is one of the few that could change history. Study it carefully, for this is a scout working for our future insect masters. He/she/it is obviously scoping out territory and gauging our expected response to their impending invasion.Fig. 1: One of our future insect masters.Sony alpha 200, Minolta Macro Zoom 300mm, f5.6 @ 1/200 sec., ISO 400.Enclicken the image for a

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I was thinking of my dearly departed grandfather on my mother's side, or papaw as I always called him.I remember a riddle that he would tell me all the time, and I was thinking of it just now for some odd reason.On my way to St. Ives,I met a man with seven wives.The seven wives had seven sacks,the seven sacks held seven cats, each cat had seven kits.Kits, cats, sacks and wives;how many were going

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I had a Dr Appointment today with my radiation oncologist. He mentioned that it is my first anniversary. I officially started cancer treatments on August 15, 2007.It doesn't seem like it has been a year. Time keeps on slipping...Anyhow, I am still doing just fine. I have gained 10 lbs, so that means that I am about 90 lbs down from when I started the adventure a year ago. I find that this weight

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...are big and bright in New Madison, Ohio.Since I got my new digital camera, one thing that I had been itching to try is a bit of astrophotography. Nothing special, just pictures of the stars. I had seen numerous images of the stars flowing in circular arcs and thought those were just way cool and wanted to do it quite badly.However, in my former life of having film cameras there was too much

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Since I am on vacation this week I managed to get caught up with all the programs that I had recorded on my DVR.One of the programs is "Alf", one of the quintessential television programs of the 1980s, which is now shown regularly on WGN out of Chicago. I had seen is advertised and set it to record, but I had not watched it up until now.Just hearing the theme music set off a series of brainfarts

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Fig. 1: Playing with FireSony alpha 200, 300mm, f5.6 at 1/250".Klicken für größeres Bild!Fig. 2: Later that same evening...Sony alpha 200, 105mm, f4.5 at 1/2".WTF!?I tried to think of a better title for this post than a simple follow up to my previous post "Please stop setting fire to my neighborhood" but I really couldn't. I thought of a few, such as:- Please stop setting fire to my neighborhood

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I get a lot of email. As per usual, about 98% is crap that I can delete straight away. There are a select number of people that I get emails from that I automatically delete because they are forwards of some crap email that they got and just HAVE to send along.You've probably gotten such emails (almost always, the subject is prefixed with "FWD:", which is a telltale of pseudo-spam) that have a

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I am anti-social. I hate crowds, meeting new people, meeting people that I already know. One of my biggest pet peeves is talking on the phone. If you call me, get to the point...don't just ramble on pointlessly keeping me tied up all night.One of my dearest friends whom I love to spend time with is one of the worst offenders. She will often call and keep me on the phone for an hour or more. Last

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I was bored and started futzing around with the Blogger templates and created one based on one of my favorite artists, Piet Mondrian. I use this style on my personal webpage as well and I have grown to like it very much.It is easier to make a Mondrian-esque webpage with tables than the way Blogger does its layout with DIVs, but it did not turn out too bad once I got used to what-does-what in the

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Here's some pics of the lilies from my front yard. They toil not, neither do they spin...but it would be nice if they would chip in on the house payment.Fig. 1: 28mm Fixed (wide angle lens), f22 at 1/50", ISO400.Fig. 2: 135mm Fixed (portrait lens), f22 at 1/50", ISO400.Fig. 3: 135mm Fixed (portrait lens), f22 at 1/50", ISO400.Fig. 3: 135mm Fixed (portrait lens), f22 at 1/50", ISO400.Whenever I

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I live in a strange neighborhood. Well, really, all neighborhoods have their black sheep, outcasts, weirdos, but we seem to have more than we need.Now, don't get me wrong...I am strange in and of myself. I have quite more than my fair share of antennas and satellite dishes on and around my house. Some have compared my homestead to SETI. I just tell everyone that I'm waiting for contact from the

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It had to happen some time. My old water heater gave up the ghost...in a rather violent way.Some back story...There was one particularly warm day, back on May 14th, when my air conditioner was running. The A/C makes a rather distinctive, though rather quiet, hissing sound. This is the compressed refrigerant coursing through the copper piping from the compressor to the coils in the furnace. Since

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I've a Picasa album now and uploadified some of my favorite images.http://picasaweb.google.com/badmoodmikeView them, enjoy them.

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Yes, I hate BlackBerries. No, not blackberries as in the fruit...though they are not my favorite fruit and I could take them or leave them...it is the handheld cellular telephonic device by the same name (with the exception of the capital "B"s) that is the focus of my ire.Our CEO was having trouble with is cellphone, a Samsung Windows-based smartphone. Rather than have us get him a replacement,

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If you are asking yourself "WTF?" in reference to the title of this post, well...so am I. LOL!I run an Asterisk phone system at home. It is great for totally destroying telemarketers! If you don't know what Asterisk is, familiarize yourself here: http://www.asterisk.org.I run two Nortel Meridian Option 11c phone switches at work, each in a separate building about 1km apart. They are connected

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I just recently treated myself to a new digital camera. I was tired of my little point-and-shoot since I'm used to an SLR. I hesitated to get a digital SLR because they were so expensive and I wanted one that would be compatible with all the Minolta lenses I have for my Maxxum film SLR bodies. The one I chose, and found a good deal on, is the Sony alpha 200.Sony purchased the digital camera

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SnowThe snow from my last post is almost completely gone. There are a few piles of filthy, black snow lying around in the shadows of buildings. However, with the warmer temps...it was 63° yesterday...they won't last long. It is supposed to be in the 50's today with rain, which will further beat down the remaining slush.TimeWhat is the deal with this daylight savings crap? Now when I get up in the

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It's snowing.Fig. 1: My house.It has been snowing since about 12 noon on Friday, 7 March. The weather people were calling for about 10 inches of snow to fall.Fig. 2: From my porch, looking north (church across the street)Fig. 3: Looking east up my street.The snow has been coming down so quickly that the city has not been able to keep up with the plowing. My street is a major thoroughfare and

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I have a syndrome. I call it "Phantom Pager Syndrome". This is going to sound weird, but stay with me.You see, I have had a pager, cell phone or both...sometimes even more than one each...since I have started working. That's about 17 years now.I wear my pagers/cell phones on my belt, on the right side, just above my right leg. For the last few years, I have felt strange vibrations in this area...

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It is, right at this very second, 64° in Dayton. It is a beautiful sunny day. I didn't think springtime would ever come. For the first time this year I did not have to warm up my car before leaving for work...I just got in and went.Alas, this is a cruel joke by good ol' mother nature...it is about 15 minutes away from pouring down rain. Then it is supposed to turn cold and snow on Tuesday.Typical

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I got an invite today in the mail from the HR department at work. It is an RSVP to attend the annual "Service Awards" banquet. For us office workers, it means that we have been employed by the RTA for a number of years evenly divisible by five.This is my fifth year of working at the RTA. I have to say that it is the best job I have ever had. The strangest thing is that I kinda asked for it.I used

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A person on a board I'm on asked what my home network was like. So, here it is...Fig. 1: Network RackThis is my network rack where all the network connection in my house land.On the left side is the electrical box that my dad and I installed when we rewired the house.On the right side is the coaxial connections for (top to bottom) DVB Satellite for free-to-air weird international programming, a

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For those that didn't know, or didn't care, the ancient dragons were out and about devouring natural satellites of small, blue, backward planets. This is to punish us for evils such as "The View", reality TV, gas-guzzling SUVs, North Korea, the fur industry, artificial sweeteners that cause cancer in rats, cigarettes, government "by the people" and hard water.There was a great, total, lunar

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I apologize in advance for the poor quality of the pictures...It was really, really cold this morning. On our internal webpage at work, I have an applet that I wrote to display the current weather. Here is what it had to say...Fig. 1: 3 degrees of Dayton's weatherMy house this morning was nice and warm. I can't wait to get my next gas bill. I am still working on the designs for a device so I can

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First off, let me say that I am now down to 200 lbs. That makes 96 lbs lost so far. I feel great! Other than still having few clothes that fit.In other news, I had a doctor's appointment today with my E, N & T doctor to go over the results of the Contrast CT that I had last Thursday. He examined me, looked over everything from my ears to my throat. Then gave me copies of the reports from the

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The weather people stated that we were doomed today. We were supposed to have gotten 5 or so inches of snow.I woke up today at 3:30 am with some mild heartburn from the Diclofenac, an anti-inflamatory, I am taking for my jaw pain. I took some stomach pills, and upon doing this, I walked out to the living room and looked out the window and saw the weather.There was a 1/4" of snow.When the radio

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I had a doctor's appointment today with Dr. M2. You might remember him as the "medical oncologist", the one responsible for my chemotherapy treatments.This was just a short follow-up to go over the PET scan results again, and go over the information that he received from my E, N & T doctor, Dr. S. Dr. S has me scheduled for a contrast CT coming up next week, which I am not looking forward to. The

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I don't have anything to say in this blog entry. I've been really busy with a number of really annoying things at work and have been really aggravated by my boss because of a number of nit-picky little stupid problems and the micromanagement of a number of my projects.Last week Chris played the movie "Hostel" on his laptop for some background noise while working. He, unfortunately, called me over

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I just now got done filing my taxes for 2007. I think this is the fastest I have ever gotten it done, and I am surprised that I got all my documentation on time this year. I'm getting a good refund, which makes me happy...but it is almost all spent already. I have to get new tires and brakes, plus a new water heater.Anyhow, I don't do a lot of web surfing. This is because once you see one website

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I was reminded this morning of my elementary school days.On the radio this morning, the dee-jays were discussing a contest in which someone would get to meet two members of the band Duran Duran. They stated that you can enter as often as you like. This lead to a math difficulty. One of the dee-jays said that if 10,000 entries are recorded and you enter once, then you have a 1 in 10,000 (1/10,000)

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I already blogged about the other two dogs. I didn't want to leave out dog number 3.This is Murphy. She is a Tibetan Terrier, a relatively rare breed that is not, in fact, a terrier. She's something around 12 years old now, and is now more gray than black.Fig. 1: Murphalene Hydroxide. Use only as directed.Her full name is "Murphy Brown", named for the television character of the same name played

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I watch Everybody Loves Raymond pretty much every night. It is on TBS around the time I eat dinner. (when I eat...see previous posts)I make remarks all the time about how defective their family is, how much of a doofus Ray is, how overbearing his father is, how much of a bitch Deborah can be, how nosy his mother is. The only one that doesn't really have a problem is Ray's brother, Robert. Well,

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I got the results from the PET scan I had a week ago. I, and my mother, met with Dr. M2 this afternoon.The scan results indicate that the three tumors in my neck, all lymph nodes, have reduced in size significantly. The also have much less "uptake" than before. The "uptake" reading indicates how fast the cells are eating up the radioactive sugars. Mine were listed as a "3" on the scale of 0 to 9.

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I love BMWs. About two years back, Chris and I were invited to the "BMW Ultimate Drive", which is to experience BMWs, at none other than a local BMW dealership.Fig. 1: The refreshment spread.BMW has a great program. The Ultimate Drive benefits the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation. Every mile put on the sample BMWs is one dollar that BMW donates to the foundation. Chris and I were proud to

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Since I posted about the Pillowhound, I thought it only fair to post about Big Dog. Big Dog is, like his brother, a golden retriever. The difference is that he has a different mother, and he was the largest puppy of both litters.Fig. 1: King-size puppy.Big Dog is huge. I don't mean fat, he is not over fed and gets lots of exercise. He is just BIG. The average golden is supposed to weigh about 80

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My family have always been dog people. There has rarely been a time when we did not have a dog of some form. After our beloved Sassie, the little black and white cocker spaniel passed away, we were left with only Murphy, the evil Tibetan terrier. Also black and white.Murphy is good company, though. But mother longed for a puppy to replace Sassie. I was against it, based on that mother always says

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My friend Chris at work takes a lot of abuse from me. Generally it is unintentional, and I try to shield him from "harm" as much as he does me. We run interference for each other a lot, and sometimes I wonder if my boss thinks that we tag team him to get things done our way.On Friday, after our staff meeting and on the way back to the building we work in, I started getting madder and madder. One

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Sometimes I get completely absorbed by something. I get to the point where I get so obsessed that I cannot live without whatever the subject of my obsession is.When I was young, I, of course, had video games. I had a Nintendo system and played the likes of Tetris (which I was very good at) and Super Mario Brothers. In fact, my dad and I would play marathon sessions of Mario, at one point we would

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I just realized today that I hang around a lot of smart people. I think I do so, so I can try to feel like I am in kindred company. I don't think I'm very bright...sure, I'm a college grad, and I have both Microsoft's MCSE certification and Cisco's CCNA certifications...but, still. A chimp could pass the MCSE, and I know quite a few of what we call "Paper MCSEs"...people that just studied the

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While I was getting radiation treatments, a number of people asked if I was still radioactive after the treatments.No. I don't glow in the dark, either, though it would be cool if I did!There are quite a few different methods of radiation treatment. The most common and typical treatment, which I underwent, is x-ray therapy. This involves a machine, not unlike an overgrown x-ray machine, that

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I just now got back from my post-treatment PET scan. This one seemed to go faster than the last one, which was very nice.My appointment was this morning (January 8, 2008) at Miami Valley Hospital, our premier humongous hospital just outside downtown Dayton. My office is about 1/2 mile from here. There is always a lot of activity around the hospital, not necessarily medical-wise...but

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My mother makes an incredible dessert around the holidays. She made two or three of them for us, and make me one to take to the RTA Christmas Party. She is pleased to make this dessert because it is something that we actually eat. When we have cakes and pies as desserts, we usually only eat up to a little more than half...and the rest gets thrown out.There is an incredible number of variations...

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On Monday, I had to work. It was kind of lame, there wasn't a lot of people around and I did manage to get some needed work done.Chris, RDW and I went to a local mexican restaurant, Elsa's, to have their buffet. They make the greatest enchiladas, a whole mess of them, for their buffet. They are cheesy and moist and go down real easy. Especially with a nice smattering of sour cream and a splash of

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I have a big interest in the phones and the phone company. I have always wanted to work for the phone company in a central office, and I would love to get my hands on a central office switch...like an AT&T 5ESS or Nortel DMS-100. Sure, playing with my Nortel Meridian PBXes at work and my Asterisk VoIP switch at home is cool, but I want to learn how the big boys do it. I try to learn all that I

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I complain to damn much about everything, so I've decided to try to not complain in my blog entries. Well, not complain as much. Like I said in my last post, I guess I am turning back into the unpleasant old curmudgeon that I used to be.Anyhow, I read on CNN today...after reading about Benazir Bhutto's assassination, which came as a terrible and saddening shock to me and could thrust Pakistan

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I got up this morning and got dressed for work. When I put on my socks, one had a hole in the big toe.Just a great start to the day.In this day and age of technological achievement, how can we not have wear-proof socks? I mean, come on. There is fabric out there that can absorb the shock of a roadside bomb, fabrics that can take a bullet without so much as a fray. Yet we cannot make toe-resistant

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I am such a ridiculously lazy person. It is pretty disgusting, actually.I initially had my beloved great big TV in my living room, because that is supposed to be the central locus of the typical home. In the living room, one is supposed to entertain visitors and generally use it to relax. The bedroom is supposed to be used to sleep, period.Many people argue that the bedroom is for sleeping only.

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Christmas Day was pretty lousy. Well, not really...it was a beautiful day. We had a great breakfast of ham and egg and toast (my favorite!). The crappy part is that dad had to leave at about 2 in the afternoon to get to Joliet, Illinois for a pickup. He is a truck driver, after all, but it still sucks that he has to leave on Christmas Day.Mom didn't want ham again for dinner, so we decided to go

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I have a lot of memories from when I was a child...some good, some bad. Everyone does, so I am not unique. It is funny how some things that you come across in life trigger long buried memories that you didn't even realize that you had.I have had an iPod for a long time. I love my iPod, and I am not sure how I would survive without it. It comes in really handy when I need to concentrate at work. I

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Would you believe that Australians don't know what Marshmallow Fluff is?Fig. 1: Marshmallow FluffMarshmallow Fluff is great stuff. You, obviously, can't make rice krispie treats without it. Well, you can melt down standard marshmallows...but why go through the trouble. My mother has some friends in Australia and on one of their many phone calls, she mentioned that she was making something (I

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House NumbersI bought these cool little neon letters at ThinkGeek and I am using them as my house numbers. Pretty cool, huh?They are bright enough to see over the street lamp and porch lights. I sent the picture along to ThinkGeek's "Customer Action Shots", with the caption: "The geekiest house in the neighborhood gets geekier!" LOL!They are little, low-voltage (relatively) cold-cathode

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I made a comment on one of my favorite blogs that I read regularly about the supposed terrible state of Downtown Dayton. I decided to expand on that a little bit...mainly because I want to bitch about it here rather than at work.I have worked in Downtown Dayton for more than 10 years, right on the Third and Main corner that is the focus of most of the attention. Many organizations in Dayton,

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I did my Christmas Shopping on Saturday. All of it. I did it online. I've done the online Christmas thing every year. I generally get people gift cards or gift certificates because I cannot figure out for the life of me what to get anyone.I had an exception this year. I got my good friend McA a new HP35 scientific calculator. HP re-released a modern, enhanced version of the HP35, which was their

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Here is some silly, funny and patently naughty poetry that a friend sent me. I hope that it will lighten the mood from my last post...Mary had a little pig,She kept it fat and plastered;And when the price of pork went up,She shot the little bastard.Mary had a little lamb,Her father shot it dead.Now it goes to school with her,Between two hunks of bread.Jack and Jill went up the hillTo have a

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Early this year, the City of Dayton finally got approvals to tear down the abandoned Admiral Benbow Hotel behind our building in Downtown Dayton. They, of course, demanded that the RTA pay for it. We did have a grant to do it, and the land we will use to enhance our downtown hub and allow the buses to be off the street. It will be easier and more convenient for our customers.Before the teardown

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A friend and colleague of mine, APK, is from Sri Lanka. He sent me the jokes below to give me some insight into Sri Lankan culture and humor. I hope one day to travel there, and he said that he would be glad to show me around and we would stay in his family's home.Udurawana's Getting MarriedUdurawana's Girl Friend: "I'm one year elder than you....will it be effected badly to our marriage?"

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I was cleaning my mailbox out at work and came across this list that someone sent me. It is 38 things that you wish you could say at work, but can't. Unfortunately, I have said a few of them...1. I can see your point, but I still think you're full of shit.2. I don't know what your problem is, but I'll bet it's hard to pronounce.3. How about never? Is never good for you?4. I see you've set aside

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If you have been following along, you already know that I dislike driving. It is an aggravation that I wish I did not have to deal with. I work for the local bus company and I get to travel on our coaches for free. The only problem is I live in a town in another county, and the bus doesn't gome anywhere near my house. If it did I would use it rather than drive.I love having a car, though. If I

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I am a computer geek. I have been for a thousand years. I like to think of myself as a lover of all operating systems. I've run pretty much everything at one time or another. I once had a computer that I could multi-boot with a half-dozen operating systems. Windows, DOS, OS/2, the vast number of Linux flavors, BeOS...they all have their uses and they all have their strong and weak points.My

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An open letter to drivers everywhere:I have a major pet peeve. I see it daily and it irritates the hell out of me. It shows total lack of courtesy and respect for fellow drivers and can be easily overlooked.Giving a single, weak-ass turn signal blink to change lanes.This ticks me off. Why even bother to signal a lane change? One pitiful blink is all you think I deserve before you pull directly in

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I'm sitting here in bed after breakfast (egg and toast) contemplating my next dose of Vicodin. My jaw is killing me, and I mean that both literally and figuratively. Every time I move my mouth, I get shooting pains from my jaw up to my left ear. Thankfully, it is only the left side. I have been taking copious amounts of Vicodin to alleviate the pain. I feel like House.Interesting fact, in case

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I hate to travel, really. I like going by airplane, though. Most people think I'm crazy, and they would be right.Years ago, a group of friends and I would travel all over the place. It was always a good time. We generally went to Louisville, Kentucky, or Columbus, Ohio for a weekend stay, usually at a Hyatt Regency.One of our friends, "A", had a boyfriend that was in the Navy. He was due to stop

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Honest, I didn't realize how much I was going to enjoy blogging...Recently, my boss asked us to let him know our plans for off time for the upcoming year. Nothing set in stone, just an idea so he can get a feel for staffing levels for big projects and so forth.This reminded me of the last vacation I took. Well...tried to take. Sure I have taken a week off to ready my new house, or spend time with

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Smoking is a dirty habit, and a deadly one. Don't get me wrong, I don't mind if people smoke, I just don't like it to happen around me. I know a lot of smokers, too, and I don't complain when I go to their homes and they smoke. I made the choice to be there because I enjoy their company. And my friends are generally considerate enough not to smoke around me outside of their home, or in

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Rx: Take one every few minutes until cuteness craving is satisfied.This is a picture from the blog "The Daily Coyote". It is about a nice lady that takes in a baby coyote who's parents were killed. This is an absolutely adorable blog, and an absolutely adorable 'yote and I suggest you read it.

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One of my favorite things to do is watch TV. I know this sounds like a lazy person, and you are right. I watch a lot of TV. My favorite things to watch are generally Food Network, BBC America and Cartoon Network.The other night I watched my favorite program on Food Network called "Good Eats" with Alton Brown. This is a show that delves into the history of whatever chosen topic the show is about,

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My friend Chris sent me this today, and I liked it so much I had to post it here...This is something that I find fascinating, and it is more common than one would expect. I am not sure why people don't secure their wireless, whether they don't care or just can't because the instructions on how to do so are difficult to understand. And it can be, as there are numerous options. In my neighborhood,

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I was a jerk this morning.I left work to go to speech therapy. My speech therapist is a very nice, younger lady whom we will call "J". I pulled into the parking lot behind the doctor's offices (same building as my E, N & T doctor, Dr. S) and tried to maneuver into a parking space that was close. There was one that I wanted, but I was not in a good position to pull into it. I drive a full-size car

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My birthday fell on Thanksgiving Day this year. Pretty cool, that. It is always nicer to have a big to do, like a huge dinner, than just cake or pie. I don't like having a big deal made of my birthday, and generally refuse presents...especially of my parents since they tend to give me lots of stuff throughout the year. Like food and clothes and such.I don't ask for anything, either. This is the

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The help desk policy at my company...

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Note: Some of the below might be deemed unpleasant to those with weak constitutions...I must be grasping at straws for something to blog about. I was bored at work today, so I blogged about my water softener. A water softener for goodness sake!Anyhow, I was annoyed by several things today.Nortel SymposiumThis is software by Northern Telecom that manages the call centers we have at work. For some

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Note: I am usually loathe to recommend a product or brand, but this is a big exception.One of the things that I liked about "This Old Crack House" was that Mr. & Mrs. C had a water softener installed, and that it was still there when I took possession of the house.You see, the water in Fairborn is crap. Sure, it is chlorinated and filtered and all that, but it is still nasty. The smell of

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In my description here on the blog, it says I live in a nondescript house in a nondescript town. This is true. I live in "This Old Crack House".About four years ago, the elderly lady that lived here, Mrs. C, passed away. So her family cleaned up the house and put it on the market. This is not an expensive neighborhood, so it was priced pretty low. Along comes a nice young man who had come into

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As an addendum to my previous posts, I neglected to state the importance of my friends and family. I am not sure how I would have survived if it was not for them thinking about me and looking after me. I know this sounds sappy, blah, blah, blah. But, it is true. I did not leave the house except for medical appointments (and work in the early days) for about three months total.It is, unfortunately

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The aftermath...Yes, I am done with my treatments and I have gone back to work. I still have a few lingering problems, though. I have no appetite still, and my tongue is very painful. I cannot eat bread or anything heavy like that, lest it become stuck in my throat.I've been living on macaroni and cheese, and other assorted pasta-and-cream-sauce dishes as these go down the easiest. My mother

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If you have stayed with me so far, then you should be up to speed...so I shall continue...I had my first appointment with Dr. M1. He examined me and looked at all the data and recommended radiation therapy daily for about eight and a half weeks. I didn't know what this entailed, but then he explained it. They will be using some advanced medical systems that are fully computerized to direct the

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A few months ago I was diagnosed with cancer.Imagine you are a guy (or girl) sitting at work and getting a call from a doctor saying that they have found cancer in a biopsy. What would you initial reaction be? I just sat in the "pink chair" in stunned silence. I didn't know how to react, since I had never been truly sick before. I called my boss and told him the story and he sent me off for the

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This is my first blog post. I never thought that I would be doing this. I mean, who would want to ready anything that I have to say...or anything that ANYONE would want to say?Over the past few weeks, I have been reading a number of blogs. Some have been great, such as the blog of Shari in "My So-Called Japanese Life" (link on the lower right). This blog truly opened my eyes as to how interesting

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