A great start to the day January 30, 2008
Posted by Kurt in : Classes , add a commentI’m thinking maybe I should’ve just stayed home. High winds today. Fortunately, unlike last time, we didn’t seem to lose any of our roof. Driving to work was entertaining. Not so much with slipping. But, very high winds.
Finally, I get to work and as I get out of the car, the wind grabs my bag from me. Dumps the powerbook out (Which is fortunately okay). And scatters my papers for my two classes to the wind. Fantastic.
Ring Found - Wife Happy Again January 20, 2008
Posted by Kurt in : Classes , add a commentIf you read Pamela’s blog you will have read about the fact that her engagement ring went missing this week. She was miserable about this, and we did a fair bit of searching the house for it to no avail. What upset me most about the loss was about how upset she was about it. I mean yes, I’d prefer it not lost, but on the scale of things, I feel she’s way more important than the ring…
In any case, this morning she was folding some laundry and found her ring inside of one of my clean black socks. Not really sure how it got there, but YAY! Ring Found!
Classes and Milk January 20, 2008
Posted by Kurt in : Classes, food , 1 comment so farSo I had my midterm practical in Routing and Switching and my midterm exam in System Admin 1. No grades back yet, but I think I did well on both. I actually finished the practical with time to spare, something I didn’t think I was going to manage.
Today Pamela and I went to Pittsford Farms Dairy. You know, I’ve meant to there for some time. I’ve had their egg nog from the grocery store before. Java Wally’s steams their chocolate milk for hot chocolate, and it’s delicious. We picked up creamtop milk, whole milk, free range eggs (darn cheap considering they are free range) and some Fiz Birch Beer and Cola. It was so good, that Pamela sent me back and I picked up another Creamtop, a 2% milk and the chocolate milk we forgot. I also grabbed some Tupelo honey, maple walnut ice cream (from Corn Hill Ice Cream), some more birch beer (having finished the first quart) and a couple cookies. Amazing stuff. Oh, and did I mention the milk is all in glass bottles? I think we’ll be going back every week from now on. If you haven’t tried them out, I’d suggest you do.
An update on classes, houses and cars January 15, 2008
Posted by Kurt in : Classes , add a commentI’ve definitely been remiss in updating my blag.
In my defense, I’m taking two classes and dealing with the crush of requests not only from the normal work stuff, but the senrior projects that have started this quarter.
The classes are going well, I just took my midterm in one class a short while ago (I’m actually writing this in lecture, naughty me, while we go over crontab entries which not only do I know, but we went over last class). I have my midterm practical tomorrow night in Routing and Switching. And I’ll have an online midterm in RnS soon too. But, things are going well, and at least moderately interesting.
We just experienced the joy of owning a home last week when part of our roof blew away. Sounds a little more dramatic than it is… A bunch of shingles blew off a patch of the roof. We had it fixed (and if you need a roofer in the Rochester area, I’ve got a good one). Should be done, right? Eh. It seems that the former owner used a… suboptimal roofer to put on the shingles. You can screw up a roof by putting the nails in the shingle in the wrong place. Which they did. The solution? Basically, you do a tearoff and re-shingle. *sigh*. What are the symptoms of this nail misplacement? Shingles blowing off more easily. Ugh.
And I finally got the car door fixed recently. The outside driver’s door handle hadn’t been working. The part should have been a fiddly little 25 cent plastic clip. However, no one will sell you the damn clip. Hyundai makes you buy a whole door handle assembly. Yeah, thanks Hyundai. So the door handle assembly costs $50. Gah. While the car was in, we had it inspected, oil changed, and put the snow tires on the car. So you can’t blame the snow on me. My snow tires are helping to keep the snow away 
On the subject of the roofer, we didn’t have one before, and had no idea who to use. So then I had an idea. We really like the plumber we used to put in our disposal. Very honest, no bullshit. So I called him up and asked him who he would use for a roofing job.
Him: Charlie Howell. 25 years in the business. I just had him put a new roof on my Mom’s house.
Me: Do you like your mom?
Got a good laugh.