Hope they have flood insurance...

Yesterday's storm brought some pretty heavy rain, so I thought I'd go driving around to see what kind of damage was done. I guess they can rename "Canal Road" to just "Canal" now in Valley View. All I can say is I hope some of the businesses pictured here have flood insurance. The guys riding on the front end loader in the last few pictures look like they're having fun anyways. Then again, maybe not?

By the way, I added a few links on the left hand menu for free software that I personally find useful. Being 100% free, I think it's pretty cool to have legit desktop antivirus (AVG Antivirus), FTP GUI Client (FileZilla), and graphical network querying (Sam Spade). I don't care if anyone likes it or not, it's mostly there for my own reference :)

Ouchie

So yesterday I found out what happens when you take a screwdriver and short the terminals on sixteen 16V/12Ah UPS batteries wired in series. It makes a nifty flashy orange light, chars everything around it, and oh yah... spot welds the screwdriver to the terminal before burning the terminal off the battery. This screwdriver was one day old dammit. So was this new battery.
The hit the penguin game (pictured on the right) is the most pointless game I've ever played. Yet, I can't stop playing the damn thing. Check it out. My high score is 320 on it. I'm so dexterous!

Oh, and I must be going to hell, because I can't help but find this video friggin hysterical.

Superbowl

Nuttin' much is going on. I watched the superbowl yesterday. Yay. I wasn't going to post anything, but came across the animated GIF to the right and it cracked me up. If you live under a rock or in an alley and don't know what it is, it's a clip of Janet Jackson gettin' "nasty" during the half time show.

I got a dog from the Cuyahoga County Kennel about a month ago. She's an approximately one and a half year old female pure bred Rottweiler that I named Xena. I uploaded some pictures here, here, here, and here. Beware, they're very high res and I'm too lazy to scale them down, so deal with it (or don't click the links). I also finally got an office at work, so I threw a webcam up there as well as home now, so check the webcam page to see what boring activity I'm engaging in RIGHT NOW!

Graph Expo 2003

Just got back from Chicago attending the Graph Expo 2003. What is the Graph Expo you ask? I don't know either. OK... actually it's some type of print industry show where the heavy hitters like Xerox, Canon, Heidelberg, MAN Roland, Scitex and others get together and show off the latest and greatest in high volume print equipment and technology. Why was I there? I'm still trying to figure that one out. In any case, follow this link to see some pics I took with my Motorola t722 phone when I was bored.

Oh by the way, in case anyone I know STILL hasn't seen the construction pics of my house (which has been completed since some time in June), they can be found at this link.

Joy

Just got back from Canada. Rock the house. Casinos, XXX, and cuban cigars... w00t! Anyways, the dumpster has come and gone and I can actually see the driveway and garage for the first time in six months. Now if I could just get the contractor the hell out and get the money he owes me...

Yah, People Suck

Oh boy! Here we are May 30th and I still don't have a dumpster! I was just told today that I'd have to go get the dumpster myself or basically pay for the dumpster before I got it (read: GET THE DUMPSTER MYSELF). If there's one thing I've learned from all this, it's to be more cynical and distrustful of people that are a bit too eager to take your money for services.

More movies, whee!

Just picked up copies of The Bourne Identity, Tombstone, Vanilla Sky, Pretty Woman (yah shut up, you know it's a good movie), and Rounders for $10 each. Best Buy was running a two for $20 DVD promo that ended on May 17th... and actually had some titles worth picking up.

The house is pretty much done aside from getting the JUNK out of here via the ever elusive "mystery dumpster". It is now scheduled to arrive May 28th. When that day comes, rest assured I won't hold my breath waiting for it to arrive.