OCDO at Chang's Mongolian Grill
News, Technical, Guns ·Monday July 28, 2008 @ 19:55 EDT (link)
20080720: Somehow, our (miserable) ISP, Broadstripe, has partially broken our network access: just Yahoo! and connected sites (e.g. yimg.com, which means Honey can't see pictures on the Drudge Report, and sites that use their store, such as OpticsPlanet, which appears to also be hosted by Yahoo!, are partially broken: the main site still comes up, but my cart is inaccessible). Called Broadstripe about it, they filed a ticket, but it came back around midnight; since the only outage was Yahoo!, it does look like it was their problem, except for the fact that I could still reach it from work (via VPN) and DownForEveryoneOrJustMe said it was up.
20080725: E.R. season 9, Bourne Supremacy, and my Olympus ME-15 tie-pin condenser microphone arrived from Amazon today. We also had The Maids here, which will be reimbursed by our realtor at closing; I left early to meet with him so Honey and I could do paperwork. We tidied up some of the friendly clutter in the rec. room, and I cut short the tree that was trying to overhang the front patio: we use the garage door, so it's not a problem for us, but it makes the patio look smaller and obscures the front of the house a little (I was seeing how far it would grow sideways, but alas, apparently the answer is "no further"). Logged into work later to make up for leaving early.
20080726: (Early morning.) Zune is still a piece of (crap). It likes to maintain a "collection" where it requires you to have files on your hard drive if they're on the Zune, and, here's the kicker: if you delete anything off of your disk, it deletes it from the device too. Now we're in a state where we can see (viewing the POS as a drive in Explorer) that files are there, but the Music section is empty. W T bloody F?
Stayed up most of the night tidying up. Went to Wal-Mart to get passport photos done since my Canadian passport had expired in April; that'd end our Alaska trip very quickly (or strand us in Alaska, I suppose) if we were turned back at the Canadian border.
Went to Chang's Mongolian Grill in Everett to meet with various Open Carry folk (OCDO = Open Carry Dot Org); had a good time. Before I left, I posted my Zune on Craigslist for $110 (seems to be about $175 new at Wal-Mart, plus tax, and I just want to get rid of it and use the money towards getting Honey an iPodÂ
I'd like an Archos, but they seem to only have overpriced video machines now, no plain music players).
For the longest time the Zune wasn't letting me put any files on it—if I'm going to sell it (Yes, we have a buyer!) it needs at least one sample file to play; that's only reasonable. I finally formatted it with the secret handshake (it's tricky; time between the two key combinations is important), and managed to get some Handel onto it. Now I shall never burden my computer with connecting to it ever again.
20080727: Nothing further from the potential Zune buyer… maybe her ISP dropped my reply. Jill, can you hear me now? (Turns out her ISP was silently dropping my mail; Comcast, bastards. So that fell through.)
20080728: Went to the range after work; shot some better groups, due to a tighter grip on the gun and lining up the front sight better; good article by Massad Ayoob. Looked over my old French Bible and some other Christian books with Honey.
Books finished: Asterix in Switzerland, Asterix the Gladiator, The Pawn.DVDs finished: Lonesome Dove, The Bourne Ultimatum.
20080726: (Early morning.) Zune is still a piece of (crap). It likes to maintain a "collection" where it requires you to have files on your hard drive if they're on the Zune, and, here's the kicker: if you delete anything off of your disk, it deletes it from the device too. Now we're in a state where we can see (viewing the POS as a drive in Explorer) that files are there, but the Music section is empty. W T bloody F?
For the longest time the Zune wasn't letting me put any files on it—if I'm going to sell it (Yes, we have a buyer!) it needs at least one sample file to play; that's only reasonable. I finally formatted it with the secret handshake (it's tricky; time between the two key combinations is important), and managed to get some Handel onto it. Now I shall never burden my computer with connecting to it ever again.