This Is A Test Of The Facebook Note Import System

It's really nifty how it imports your atom feed and all. It just seems like it ought not to take more than three hours for the post to come through. Interesting.

It's Not Fair, I Tell You

Two bomb threats a school in two days. At the rate we're going, we're going to make Bonny Eagle High School's record a couple years ago look puny. Yesterday wasn't so bad because only the Portland campus was shut down and I don't have any classes in Portland, but today - today some prankster (I assume, until further proof) gyps me out of Work. Money. I would be getting paid to do build stuff.

Yeah, so it's debatable whether hacking up those chairs for Equus and reassembling them in Expressionist/Cubist style is really building stuff, but I would be getting paid for it if the whole blasted school weren't closed from Gorham to Lewiston-Auburn.

Life is really not fair. My brother lives through power outage, lightning, flooding, and general mayhem at school in Illinois and what do I do? I sit here in my kiester because of a stupid bomb threat. *sigh* I guess I'll just have to put up with it.

Score! (The Good-Books-Super-Cheap Edition)

I happened across a really nice looking copy of Johnathan Strange and Mr. Norrell today in Goodwill and absolutely *could not* resist picking it up. Only $2.99 for such a tome of excellence in such condition?! But of course! I must have it!

Sing I The Praises Of The UPS

I finally got around to reconfiguring things around here and put that UPS that I got a couple weeks ago into service. Now, unless you have a UPS (or a laptop), you have no idea how awesome a feeling it is the first time it goes into action. Oh, to be working on a forum post when the power goes out three times inside of thirteen seconds and then decides to stay there, I, basking calmly in the light of my screen, oblivious to the chaos of young siblings proclaiming near and far that the power has gone out.

Until, of course, the chirps of that most brick-like of saving angels grow more worried of the impending doom of an empty battery. Then one must, unfortunately, finish the forum post, power down the server, and shut everything off, awaiting eagerly such time as the electrons cometh again.

Woe Unto Me, Who Is Addicted To Free Junk

I realy kinda hope right now that Mum doesn't find out exactly how much free junk I've brought home in the week the family has been out of town. Because today I brought home a file cabinet, an 8' CB antenna, some miscellaneous small toolboxes and hubcaps, a largeish Bug Zapper and a couple keyboard trays.

Adding that to all the other stuff I've gotten (and not totally filed away yet), all collected it takes up more space than I really have at the moment. Especially that file cabinet. I don't think that will fit in my room very well....and I was going to bring home a different one with the short drawers for the basement. Hm.

Score! (The Ridiculous-Lot-Of-Miscellany Edition)

Work has been good to me this week. I have saved from extinction in the netherworld of Dumpster a two-port KVM complete with cables, a couple ancient modems, a raft of storage bins, a box of miscellaneous mice, power cables and data cables, an APC 1000VA UPS (dead batteries), and a handheld inventory scanner thingy, apparently still in it's original box.

And yesterday at a yardsale I acquired a DVD player, a drafting chair, Super Mario 64 and The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, all for $12. Now if only I could find the sword so I can go talk to the Great Deku Tree, my life would be so much better.

I Should Have Called This Blog "Diary of Sporadic Man"

Actually, that sounds sort of like I'm some sort of mushroom superhero, so maybe not.

So to recap the last month:

• Work.
• More Work.
• Housesitting.
• Along with work.

And that's why I haven't blogged. I have fixed my computer (new power supply & a real case to boot), acquired a real (if somewhat dorky looking) CB antenna for Genny, and collected a lot of other neat junk for free.

There are some advantages to working for a moving company: Sometimes people want to get rid of things and we have the priviledge of doing so for them and good stuff goes to the nearest guy who wants it. That is how I have become the owner of a Samsung Syncmaster 700IFT 17" monitor, an HP DesignJet 350C plotter, a couple IBM 380 laptops, another old computer & HP 17 monitor, and a large piece of corkboard, among other small odds and ends. Yes folks, this is a "Score!" post, edition "Super Stuff I Don't Have Room For But Can't Pass Up For The Life Of Me". But I guess that's ok because the plotter is going to a friend who might actually use it.