Yesterday it took about 3-4 moves forward and back to get situated to get out of my parking spot at the end of the work day. This irritated me for two reasons… 1) people shouldn’t park so close to you that you have that problem and 2) the person behind me had their @$$ end in a no parking zone. I had an ounce of sympathy yesterday. Today my patience evaporated. The dipsh*t who parked behind me had fully half of their car in the no parking zone … *plus* … they were only 3 inches behind me, leaving *no* room to maneuver out. So, I stopped in to visit Public Safety to find out who tickets for that no parking zone. They say RFPD … they were nice enough to give them a call. RFPD came out and ticketed the person behind me. They were lucky they didn’t get towed … Liz happened to have parked in front of me so I was able to move her car and get me space to get out. So, I moved Liz’s car and the person behind me got a ticket. 
Archive for December, 2005
w00t! I got a PVR-150 for Christmas from the in-laws! I installed it on Monday night after we got back home. Unfortunately it didn’t work quite as smoothly as “drop it in and it will just work”. It was recognized but there were some issues with drivers and whatnot, which required upgrading to the latest and greatest ivtv (version 0.4.1), which re-worked where the card firmwares are kept, so I had to update those as well. Even after that there was some funkiness which required clearing out all the card settings and re-creating them (in mythtvsetup). Thankfully that worked! Yay. I now have a MythTV box with two tuners and therefore can record two shows at once!
In other news, we needed a trailer this past weekend to bring back a mattress set from DeForest (not to be confused with DeWoods or DeBushes). This required making a pit stop up at a neighbor of my parents on Friday. Unfortunately it was icy on Friday. My truck decided it wanted to play in the snow, but it neglected to consult me on the matter before taking advantage of a nice ditch full just south of Wheeler. Thank goodness for 4WD … put it in 4-low and backed our butts out of there… no problem.
Well this was a pretty good weekend. I didn’t get as much sleep as I would have liked, but I had fun. Saturday we hung out with my old roomie and his wife down in Mt. Horeb. We got to see where he works. He decided to show us a since demo that he uses in his class… a vacuum bazooka. Very cool. Not exactly lethal to us with the ammunition we were using (ping-pong balls), but it was quite lethal to the (Ken-type) doll he was shooting at (blew off the head and a leg).
Today was pretty uneventful. We took delivery of my in-laws’ new mattress; they got a Tempurpedic set like ours and hung around until they got back and the Packers game was done. Drive home was uneventful … stopped at Happy Wok in Eau Claire for yummy cashew chicken. Got home and shoveled the driveway. Watched MythBusters with Liz and learned that diving into water is actually a rather effective way to avoid getting killed by bullets. Now it’s time fore bed, so ttfn!
Well that was great fun! Liz and I went out with her brother and her brother’s significant other last night. We went here. We got Liz quite drunk (I was DD … no drinking) on a pair of midori sours and a chocolate martini. I’d like to give a special thanks to Sonja for her special attention. 
