Above the Law
Tuesday, September 25, 2007 - 02:39 PM
Here’s a great example of how cops think that they are above the law:
It’s a website actually devoted to cops complaining about getting tickets for speeding and other traffic violations. Apparently, these assholes believe that since they’re cops, they should be given a “professional courtesy” by other cops and not be given tickets.
I say a big F-U to any cop who complains about getting a ticket. And, kudos to any cop who does his job properly and issues tickets to these bastards.
Obligatory Weekly Update
Saturday, September 22, 2007 - 08:31 PM
Well, it seems that I’ve been getting a little lazy in the update department lately.
So, let’s catch up, shall we?
First, I’d like to note that I’ve been uploading photos from Carrie’s and my trip to Wisconsin to Flickr. Some good shots, and there’s more to come.
Second, last weekend I brewed my Vanilla Porter. This time around I used more vanilla. Hopefully I didn’t over do it! I just racked it to the secondary tonight, and I can’t wait to see how it turns out.
Third, I tried the Mystery Ale last night. It turned out pretty good, but it needs a little more time to age.
So, that’s about it for now. I’ll try to be a little more diligent in the future.
Modern Technology
Friday, September 14, 2007 - 07:50 PM
Some things were just better before computers came along. Some things just didn’t need to have computers added to them in the first place.
A couple of months ago, our coffee maker started acting strange. It’s supposed to shut itself off three hours after it finishes brewing the coffee. Seemingly a decent feature, if you forget to turn it off, it’ll turn itself off. What it started doing, however, was shut itself off immediately after the coffee finished brewing. Very annoying. After quite some time of putting up with this, I finally unplugged the thing, let it set a few minutes, plugged it back in and reset the time. It worked fine after that.
Let me sum up that last paragraph: I had to reboot the coffee maker to get it working properly again.
I never had to reboot my old coffee maker (which I had for well over ten years). It was very simple: put in the coffee, put in the water, turn it on. Our new coffee maker has features I will never use. Ever.
A few nights ago I stopped by the grocery store and picked up a pizza. (They have really good, fresh, hand made pizzas ready to be taken home and put in the oven.) When I got home, I set the pizza on the counter and turned on the oven to let it pre-heat. I left the room and sat down in front of the TV for a while. After about 15-20 minutes, I returned to the kitchen to put the pizza into, what I was expecting to be, the pre-heated and ready oven. However, when I got to the kitchen the oven wasn’t on, and it showed “F1” on the display.
The oven was displaying an error code. I could not believe it. The oven was actually displaying an error code. Un-freaking-believable.
I hit the “Stop/Clear” button and preceded to reset the desired temperature. Luckily, it worked fine after that, because I really dread the day when I have to call tech support to get my oven to work.
Last Comic
Thursday, September 13, 2007 - 09:20 AM
There wasn’t much on TV last night, and although I should have been practicing my guitar, or going through the vacation photos to start posting them to Flickr, I was feeling lazy. I landed on Last Comic Standing. I’m normally not into reality shows, but I happen to really like stand up comedy. Since, at this point, they were down to the last three comedians, I figured that they would be the “best of the best”. This turned out to be not so true.
As an aside, the highlight of the first show was last year’s winner, Josh Blue. He was freakin’ hysterical. I wanted to see more of him.
But, out of the remaining three comedians for this year, only one was funny at all: Jon Reep. I sincerely hope he wins.
There were two shows, back-to-back, and in the second they narrowed it down to the two remaining comics. Jon was one of the final two, but the other one I couldn’t believe. In fact, I couldn’t believe he had made it to the final three after seeing his act.
People, Lavell Crawford is not funny at all. Seriously, I didn’t laugh once during any of his routines. What’s worse, none of his jokes are even remotely original. All of his material was old jokes. He did a rectal exam joke where the punch line was that the doctor should have taken him out to dinner and a movie. Seriously? Unbelievable. He did a joke about hockey being a white man’s sport because it’s a bunch of white guys chasing a black puck. Are you freakin’ kidding me?! Let’s not even talk about the “fat black man ordering fried chicken” joke.
How is a comedian with no original material even on this show, let alone one of the two finalists? I don’t have much faith in humanity as it is, but if Jon Reep doesn’t win this thing I’ll be totally blown away.
Vacation
Friday, September 07, 2007 - 10:12 AM
I’m writing this sitting on the deck of a cottage in the middle of the woods in Wisconsin. It’s the start of the second day of our vacation. Carrie’s collecting acorns whilst I enjoy my coffee.
Yesterday was a good day. We got up, got ready (finished packing, I had to take the car in for an oil change, etc.), and hit the road a little after noon. We took our time getting here, stopping for lunch on the way, hitting the Brat Stop to pick up some good cheese and fresh, hand made brats. A little closer to the cottage we stopped at a farm to get some fresh vegetables and herbs.
The rest of the day was just relaxing: surveying the surrounding area, taking pictures all the way; a dip in the pool while sipping on home brewed wheat ales; dinner, consisting of the fore-mentioned hand made brats, home made salsa (made from the fresh vegetables and herbs), and of course, home brewed beer. The rest of the evening was just lounging around the cottage.
I’ve taken several really great photos so far, and plan on taking many more. (Unfortunately, I neglected to bring the USB cable for my camera, so I can’t post any photos until after we get back.)
Well, it’s about time to get back to the relaxing…