Rants

We Have Lift Off

After about a week of 10 minutes here, 10 minutes there, before or after breaks and lunch, the Tor.com Stubby Rocket is finished. It is 2 times scale of the downloaded PDF and is literally hung by a thread from the drop ceiling in my cube.

I wonder what the reaction will be, if any, on Monday from my supervisor and my manager, who were both are out of town on business this week. The big cheese Director of Operations, who sometimes makes a sweep of the area, wasn’t in today either. He is probably who told my manager to instruct his charges that the new offices should be more business-like and not be shrines to our individual personalities…

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Woot Ka Nal

Fourteen months ago I had a root canal done. Yesterday was Donna’s turn to go under the drill. Last week she had a bad headache that nagged her for a couple days and then over the weekend a tooth started to pain her. The headache was her body trying to tell her she had an infection in the tooth. On Monday she called the dentist and got an appointment for Tuesday and an antibiotic prescription because her face was starting to get swollen on one side. Monday after work we got the script filled and she took one as soon as we got home. Then we read the sheet of side effects and precautions only to find out that persons with Crohns or Colitis shouldn’t take that medication.

On Tuesday she saw our regular dentist and he immediately sent her down the hall to the specialist. The infection was so bad that there was a possibility that she might have to take antibiotics for 10 days before the root canal could be done, but they ended up doing it right then. They sent her home with a prescription for an antibiotic she could take, Amoxicillin. After a root canal your mouth is sore because they have been in there working, but the pain is minimal. For Donna’s root canal they had to give her two shoots to kill the pain and lance part of her gum because of the infection. She hurt pretty bad and neither one of us got a lot of sleep. Around 3:00 Am this morning we contemplated going to the emergency room for help. But Donna the trooper gutted it out, but called the dentist for some pain meds today. She now has 15 Lortab (7.5/500) to take every 4 to 6 hours, the pills do a good job of knocking the pain back, but only seem to last, at most, a couple hours. Hopefully the antibiotics will kill the infection and that will make the pain go away without having to keep taking the pain pills.

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Minimimmo

My latest fixation, started in the usual manner, a random blog post on a random web page. Now I just can’t help myself, I just have to cut something out of card stock and glue, insert tab into slot or press it together to create “art.”

Today’s papercraft piece, Minimimmo, is from Italy and hopes to colonize the world. These boogers are just so cute, I might just make a hundred of them, starting a southeastern US outpost. Good thing there is a video on the web site as the downloadable instructions were only available in Italian.

No package in today’s mail. No failed attempted delivery notice. Some rat bastard postal worker is wearing my Pacific Playland T-shirt.

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Still No Shirt :-(

The Hostess truck from TDZM was easier than making a mini-me. The truck was held together by tabs glued to panels, but this had tabs going into slots and while the head was kind of easy the body was tricky and the “legs” were a real pain. And even though I used a metal ruler for a straight edge, cutting parallel and perpendicular was equally important as straight. As you can see I had to resort to clear tape to keep me together.

It took UPS two days to move my Pacific Playland T-shirt from Groveport, Ohio 530 miles to Atlanta, GA. It has taken the USPS two days to get it from Atlanta, GA 150 miles to Augusta GA. I wonder how long it will take them to go the last 25 miles? Two days?

Little Rock: Have you heard about Pacific Playland? There are no zombies there.
Columbus: The amusement park?
Little Rock: Yep!
Tallahassee: That place totally blows!
[Little Rock and Wichita shoot Tallahassee angry looks]
Tallahassee: … my mind. Just fun for the whole family.

My current car insurance is with State Farm and after watching Two and a Half Men this evening I think I can get 21st Century insurance to pay me to be insured with them. First, switching to Geico will save me 15%, then switching to Allstate from Geico will save me an additional $396. Changing to Progressive from Allstate will save me $474. Then converting to 21st Century from Progressive saves me another $550.

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Two And Nine Tenths Men

Having recently discovered the joy of dessert TV in the form of Two And A Men reruns I was unpleasantly surprised by how much I didn’t enjoy a first run episode. After House last night I was surfing for a background show while blogging and ended up watching a new this season episode. It stuck to its basic formula, but everyone seemed to be trying to hard. All TV shows have an expiration date and last night both House and 2-1/2 Men last night confirmed that they are past theirs.

If I still owned a first gen Miata I might still be running the Barndoor Fan Club and I would definitely be sporting one of these NA-Culture Tees.

Now, how about some papercraft? Stumbled on this link to How To Geek somewhere and thought, cool. How to Create Your Own Custom Papercraft Toy. Based on my old Mad Men Yourself self-portrait I’m going to make one of those of me. Photo tomorrow.

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What’s Your Sign?

I’m glad you asked that question. I used to be a Libra, but now I’m a Virgo thanks to 2,000 years and wobble in the earth axis. link

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