Ξ November 29th, 2006 | → Comments Off | ∇ General |
It’s snowing really heavily tonight. In the last 6 hours we’ve gotten 3 or 4 inches of really lovely powder. According to the weather forecast we’ll have snow overnight through tomorrow morning, and possibly snow or freezing rain tomorrow afternoon or evening. It’s still 7 below out there right now, so it seems weird to me that it would warm up by 10 or more degrees tomorrow, but stranger things have happened.
The snow has been amazing. The cold has been a pain in the ass. I have to remember that I’m not 18 anymore and I can’t go outside when its ten below wearing a t-shirt, light jacket, and doc martins. Nope. I’m old, cold, and need to be wrapped.
It’s been interesting to me how isolated the town we live in becomes in the event of a major snow storm. Parts of highway 1 become impassable when it snows because it either freezes over or because of white out conditions. It becomes almost impossible to get into Vancouver, or even Langley for that matter. I actually really enjoy being out a bit further afield. It’s nice to get a variation in weather other than downtown Vancouver’s wet wet wet wet.. wet… daily routine.
Thankfully we have not had any issues with our power. It seems that we’re in one of the few outlying areas that haven’t had power outages. The house would get really cold very fast without power. We still need to get our fireplace checked out and some firewood stockpiled just in case. I don’t want to burn anything in the fireplace until we’ve had it looked at and had someone tell us it’s safe to use. A chimney fire would be very very bad.
It’s time for bed. My lovely wife has been cleared for sexual activity by her doctor, and we’ve got 6 weeks to make up for!
Ξ November 27th, 2006 | → Comments Off | ∇ General |
SOLD!
Or so it seems. It passed mechanical inspection, with the only issues being the battery failed a load test, and there are a few tiny teeny leaks on the transmission cooler lines. Very minor issues, and not something I’d have fixed, personally, at this time. It starts, it runs awesome, it’s beautiful, and it’s SOLD! Wheee! I’m arranging transfer of ownership for hopefully today, and then when the papers have been signed, it’s truly sold.
In other news the bath tub has been grouted and caulked! Fucken A! 36 hours from now we can have a shower!
Time passes..
And it’s sold! And the bath tub is finished! Yahoo!
Ξ November 27th, 2006 | → Comments Off | ∇ General, Sex Talk |
Snow!
We’ve got about a foot of snow outside. Unfortunately, there have been no snow plows along any of the roads on my area. I am supposed to drive to get the van looked at tomorrow, but if the snow is too deep I’ll cancel and do it another day. The van drives well in snow and I drive well in the snow, but other people’s driving SUCKS when it snows. Thus I tend to stay off the roads to avoid the jackasses that drive on summer tires or goof off because it’s slippery. It’s only 2-3 miles to the garage, so I’ll likely give it a go if the roads are reasonable in the AM.
It’s absolutely gorgeous outside. It’s gone from being very wet and dirty outside to nice and white and clean. Luckily we still have power. Some areas of BC have had their power knocked out from snow laden branches falling and hitting power lines. The view from our front window is amazing. The wind is quite strong and it’s snowing quite heavily and the combination means lots of blowing snow and snow drifts.
As much as I love the snow it’s an inconvenient week for it to arrive. I have the van appointment tomorrow, and Leila has a follow up appointment for her hysterectomy surgery on Wednesday. Otherwise, everything I need is withing a 3 block walk. There’s a grocery store close by, a vet clinic, 2 movie rental places, and a gas station.
Even so, I’ll be sad when the snow goes away. The weather is supposed to warm up by Thursday so there will be lots of rain and melting snow. The roads will even be ‘lovelier’ at that point.
As I mentioned, Leila has her surgery follow up on Wednesday. We find out how well she’s healed and whether she can work out again. And, most importantly, whether she can have sex again! Given she’s now without major reproductive organs, her uterus and cervix, it will be interesting to see if her sexual response has changed any due to the missing parts. Hopefully it won’t have changed, or if it has changed it will be for the better. We shall see in 3 more days!
Ξ November 25th, 2006 | → Comments Off | ∇ General |
I wandered into the basement a few days ago and I noticed a small puddle of water under the bathtub. I figured the bathtub wall was leaking and needed new caulking. Boy was I wrong. I got into it today and noticed the grout had cracked in about a 16″ section of wall and was allowing copious amounts of water in behind the tiles. Nasty business. So today I bought my tools and my cement board, and wandered into the bathroom full of resolve to ‘get it done’. I spent the last 5 hours removing tiles, cutting out the rotted backboard, cutting a new piece of cement board, putting the cement board into the hole in the wall, screwing the board in, thin setting, and re tiling the bath tub wall. In 24 hour I can grout. 24 hours after that we can use the tub again. And -hopefully- the tub will be completely sealed again at that point. After I re caulk the tub seams, that is.
The bathroom needs to be redone at some point, but this was a nice, cheap, way of extending the life of whats there now.
I AM…
HANDY MAN!
Ξ November 22nd, 2006 | → Comments Off | ∇ General |
YouTube - XM Radio Ad
Gotta love this ad!
and the music Video
Cherry Pie - Warrant
Ξ November 21st, 2006 | → Comments Off | ∇ General |
The Llama Song
Ξ November 18th, 2006 | → Comments Off | ∇ General |
No, not a sperm donor; although that might be an interesting way of spreading one’s genetic seed. Even though I don’t want to raise a child, I still have the urge to make them. Strange that.
What I’m referring to is being an organ donor. My old medical card died so I ordered a new one and when it arrived today in the mail it came with an organ donor application. I had signed up to be an organ donor in my late teens but it expired when the new registry came to be. I didn’t apply to be a donor again because I wasn’t sure how I felt about my parts being taken out of my body and redistributed. So, I read the papers when they arrived today and put them aside. There is something about pulling my body apart, even in death, that bothers me. I decided to give it some thought and decide whether or being a donor was something I wanted to do or not.
I did sign up to be an organ donor after a few hours of thought. The idea of parts of me helping someone else was appealing, and also the thought that parts of me could live on in someone else was appealing. I am of two minds regarding death. I want to live forever but I don’t fear death. If I had the choice I’d stay as I am until life stopped being interesting to me anymore; however long that took. I don’t think I’m much different than many in that respect.
As I get older I start to think of things like what my legacy will be when I am gone, and whether or not I’ll be remembered. For some reason being remembered is important to me. I won’t have children, so won’t be family to remember me. What legacy will I leave behind? Right now, not much. In 50 years, who knows…
I think about things like this a lot. On a tangent, I knew that kids were not in my future when the only reason I could think for ever wanting one was to obtain a form of immortality vicariously through offspring. Not a great reason In my humble opinion.
Anyways, I overcame my initial reticence for becoming an organ donor. I’ve even signed up my organs to be post death research items. Go me. Organs good, mmm-kay.
Ξ November 11th, 2006 | → Comments Off | ∇ General |
I just finished watching the Ultimate Fighter 4 finale. As I expected, Matt Serra won his fight. It came down to a split decision, and what I think won him the fight was that he controlled the action throughout the entire fight; he was always pushing and moving forward and going for the take down. Lytle was mostly able to neutralize Serra, but the fact was that Serra was controlling what Lytle was able to do or not. Quite honestly it was a boring fight, with too much hugging and not enough banging, but when you get two guys so evenly matched, it often comes down to who controlled the fight and did the most (if any) damage.
The fight that I really enjoyed was between Pete Sell and Scott Smith. THAT was a good fight! Pete sell had basically TKO’d Smith with a body shot, but as Sell was moving in, Smith delivered a beautiful right cross… and then proceeded to fall down unable to move for several minutes. Very cool finish.
Battlestar Galactica was disappointing this week. The whole genocide thing was handled poorly and I feel the story has lost direction so far this season. It has been flitting about with too many plots and not dealing sufficiently with any of them. I was worried that the way the story jumped ahead a year would do that, and it has. I will keep watching, because I’m invested in the show now, and because I know it has the potential to get back on track very quickly.
As long as I get to see grown men beat on each other, I’m happy.
Ξ November 9th, 2006 | → Comments Off | ∇ General |
Star Wars Rap
The bedroom is finally finished. I painted the last bits of trim yesterday and we organized it last night. It is a lovely bedroom. The colour we have on the walls & ceiling is called Royal Red, but it should really have been called Bloodbath Red. It is a lovely colour, but it does look like someone sprayed the walls with blood. Ah well. It suits us!
I also finished painting the dark brown trim in the hallway. All that’s left of that is to paint the bathroom door and trim. That is my task for tomorrow.
Business is really slow right now. I wonder if it’s something many other sites are dealing with. Our traffic is still good, but not many are buying right now. We have to get some bald models soon. That will certainly help.
We got our first nursery booking, which is awesome. We’ve working hard setting up the nursery, so it’ll be really kick ass. Hopefully we’ll be able to start working on the dungeon soon. As with anything, it depends on having money, which we don’t, so it may be a while. The thing I can do cheaply is sand down the walls and get them ready for painting.
I’ve been looking for a part time job. There is a distinct lack of any job that pays over $9/hr. That’s much lower than I am willing to go. I’ve been looking into more self employment options as well. Aside from wanting to earn some money, I also want to get out of the house and interact with people. I just don’t want to do it for a crap wage. It’s actually been quite a challenge to think of things I’d like to do that I qualify for that pay reasonably well. I am reasonably confident I’ll find something to occupy my time… eventually!
We’ve got the RV for sale as well. We’ve had a few folks look at it, but no offers yet. Winter isn’t the best time to sell an RV though, either. RV’ing is very seasonal, and sales don’t usually start to take off until March. Given that, we’re lowering our price in hopes that we’ll generate more interest. It’s a nice RV, but we need something a wee bit smaller that gets better gas mileage. It comes out again in the regional buy and sell today, so hopefully we’ll get more calls and a buyer.
Hopefully we’ll be ready for a housewarming party soon. Once we get the last bit of painting done and the art hung, we should probably be able to set a date. The challenge will be to get our friends, all of which live in or near Vancouver, our here to the burbs. 90 minutes isn’t so far though, so maybe we’ll have a big old partay! We shall see!
Katt is continuing to recover from her hysterectomy. She hasn’t gotten hysterical once since her surgery date. We went out for coffee with some local kinky folks we just met, and Katt dolled herself up. Man that girl is hot. She’s lost over 70lbs and she’s looking mighty fine. We were walking and she got a compliment from a passing lady pedestrian. I think that made her night. She’s pretty fatigued, emotionally and physically, from the surgery. A hysterectomy, even if you never wanted kids, is still a very emotional thing to have happened to you. Just the resources required from her body to repair the damaged tissue is astounding. I think she’s doing pretty well though. I pick up the slack where I can so she can rest and recover. I want her to stay healthy and not injure herself because she did too much.
I’m at 205lbs right now, down 25 lbs from where I was at last November. I’m also completely out of shape, where I was in awesome shape last November. It’s been one year since I exercised regularly. Not so good. Though, to be fair, I had ankle surgery in January and I was supposed to avoid impact exercise completely for 6 months. The yard work and painting has been good for me though.
Surprisingly, I have been having a lot of pain in my surgically repaired ankle. I am a little concerned about that. Once we can afford a membership at the community centre, I’ll start going to the gym again and I’ll work on strengthening the joint and see if that helps.
This has been one of my mish mash entries. For someone who doesn’t have a lot going on, I have a lot going on.
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