Got my truck back on Friday. It wasn’t quite as happy of an experience as I’d hoped, but I’m not going to go into details just yet. Maybe tomorrow.
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On Friday night, someone apparently decided my trees weren’t festive enough, and they needed to decorate them for me. So I got to spend a half-hour on Saturday morning in the front yard, pulling bits of butt-wipe out of my trees with a rake. Makes me miss living in the country, where if someone came into your front yard to commit asshattery like that, nobody would say much if a guy happened to unload a shotgun shell loaded with rock salt into their backsides.
It seems as though this week is going to be even more compressed than is usual for the week before Thanksgiving. Almost everyone I work with is either taking the entire week off, or heading out of town on Tuesday evening, to get out of town ahead of the traffic
. Me, I’m just hoping to plug along and get something done in the midst of the home improvement that’ll be going on around here, but I wonder if maybe Tuesday’s rush-hour will be a killer, and Wednesday will be fine.
A couple weeks ago, I decided that there were a number of projects I just wasn’t going to complete before the snow flew around here, and that I wanted to see done so I can settle in a little better around here, so I called in professional help. They’re starting work today.
The guys are due to swing by about 8:30 this morning, and are going to start by patching up some holes in the kitchen wall, mounting the support for the ceiling fan in my bedroom upstairs, replacing the last few windows on the ground floor that aren’t weather-tight, and other bits that need to be done before the paint starts flying. I expect there will be priming today, too, since they don’t want to work on Wednesday either, and that’s the only way they’ll be able to finish things up tomorrow. I’m expecting a flurry of activity, followed by a shot to the checkbook. Hopefully warm fuzzies will follow.
- I knew this was supposed to happen soon, but now it’s official. For Harry Singh, hopefully the Fifth Time’s The Charm. It sure sounds like he’s got a good location on Nicollet, and the food has always been excellent. The roughest part about dining at Harry’s has always been finding the place, and the new location should help with that.
- Weird. Here’s a full-size desk model GSM cell phone. But it makes a lot of sense if you’re going to go completely wireless, I guess. [fark!]
- Here’s a list of The Top 40 Bands In America Today, according to a panel of bloggers.
- Joey wants to Notify Morgan Spurlock! and Mitch is Feeling Queasy Already about the new Hardee’s Monster ThickBurger (weighing in at 1420 calories, and 107 grams of fat). Me, I didn’t think much of it until I started reading the comments and discovered Dangerous Dan’s Diner’s Quadruple C (no nutritional information available, but here it is on the menu), which includes a generous side order of poutine. The big question is whether there’s a Tim Horton’s nearby so a guy can get a 40-pack of Timbits for dessert. [accordionguy]
- In It’s The “English” Stupid, steveo explains how to use quotation marks, with an emphasis on helping marketing types get them right in ads and on signs. [steveo]
- A tax-returns measure that would have given the chairmen of the House and Senate appropriations committees, or their agents, the ability to examine the tax returns of any American was buried in the thousand page omnibus spending bill and has been called
indefensible
by Bill Frist. Once again, I think it points out that we need some way to ensure that Senators are actually reading the bills they’re voting on. They’re talking about punishing whoever slipped the provisions into the bill, but I think all of the senators who voted for it without reading it share in the culpability. [fark!] - Finally, jr noticed my blogiversary with Dave Is a God. I’m pretty sure I’m flattered. [jr]