Monday, November 10, 2008
What, August?
What happened in the last few months:
gained all my weight back
discovered Facebook
got a Android G1 phone
Got a broke-down Elite 99 (did I post that already?
skimped on my music project, but am 1/2 caught up.
cleaned the cat litter
didn't take great care of the garden, but the 2008 jalapeneo/black radish hot sauce is in the freezer
pet some cats
still trying to get rid of the nopeds, trying to get $300 for both.
still working at the record store, not much changes there
been in a reading slump, but powered through Chris Connely's RevCo memoir
played some Halo
what have you been up to?
gained all my weight back
discovered Facebook
got a Android G1 phone
Got a broke-down Elite 99 (did I post that already?
skimped on my music project, but am 1/2 caught up.
cleaned the cat litter
didn't take great care of the garden, but the 2008 jalapeneo/black radish hot sauce is in the freezer
pet some cats
still trying to get rid of the nopeds, trying to get $300 for both.
still working at the record store, not much changes there
been in a reading slump, but powered through Chris Connely's RevCo memoir
played some Halo
what have you been up to?
Labels: followthru, update
Saturday, June 28, 2008
Chef Chris De Barr quits the Delachaise
If you're like Teflon and I, we were planning a jaunt down to NOLA for a meal from Chef Chris and to see the new insectarium. Now what?
Details starting here: Chef Chris Ankles...
Details starting here: Chef Chris Ankles...
Labels: conspiracy, update
Thursday, June 26, 2008
This blog is now lame.
I'm sorry. I haven't been into blogging or anything else much, as of late.
I barely get to the garden, haven't worked out in months, quit the WW, haven't been fixing up scooters or computers, haven't gone out of town, haven't done much.
Sorry!
I barely get to the garden, haven't worked out in months, quit the WW, haven't been fixing up scooters or computers, haven't gone out of town, haven't done much.
Sorry!
Labels: update
Monday, June 02, 2008
Garden 2008 - ugh!
Yesterday I spent 6 & 1/2 hours up at the garden getting all the weeding done and getting it into shape.
I found out that spearmint from last year is evil and sent shooting roots under almost the whole plot.
We will confine the spearming to 1 pot this year. I got 4 black pearl pepper plants from the same seller at the Evanston Farmer's market that I got them from last year and they're in the ground now ready.
We need to get some soil and then get the rest of the plot planted, etc. Nights this week will be used for that.
Pictures later tonight.
Teflon did help for more than 2 hours.
I found out that spearmint from last year is evil and sent shooting roots under almost the whole plot.
We will confine the spearming to 1 pot this year. I got 4 black pearl pepper plants from the same seller at the Evanston Farmer's market that I got them from last year and they're in the ground now ready.
We need to get some soil and then get the rest of the plot planted, etc. Nights this week will be used for that.
Pictures later tonight.
Teflon did help for more than 2 hours.
Tuesday, May 20, 2008
What can we talk about?
Mopeds:
We've got helmets now, which makes me more comfortable. The QT50 just needs a turn signal flasher and a headlight.
The Express II needs work, this work is daunting.
Also getting them plated and titled looks hard and expensive.
Garden-
Yeah, we ended up there on Saturday. 1st visit this year. I was dreading it, but all in all it wasn't horrible. The spearmint from last year took over 1/2 the plot, with weeds in the other half.
There's baby birds in the birdhouse, I saw that crazy attacking bird too. And some garden neighbors.
I have my seedlings in the store window still, a place to buy more cherokee purple tomatoes, some rare radish seeds coming from Australia, & a lot of work ahead of me. Exciting.
Weight loss-
What's that? I may be back to my old weight. Stress eating is fun, seriously.
Music-
1/4 of the tracks for the year are done. Still going steady.
Pictures and better posts may occur in the future.
We've got helmets now, which makes me more comfortable. The QT50 just needs a turn signal flasher and a headlight.
The Express II needs work, this work is daunting.
Also getting them plated and titled looks hard and expensive.
Garden-
Yeah, we ended up there on Saturday. 1st visit this year. I was dreading it, but all in all it wasn't horrible. The spearmint from last year took over 1/2 the plot, with weeds in the other half.
There's baby birds in the birdhouse, I saw that crazy attacking bird too. And some garden neighbors.
I have my seedlings in the store window still, a place to buy more cherokee purple tomatoes, some rare radish seeds coming from Australia, & a lot of work ahead of me. Exciting.
Weight loss-
What's that? I may be back to my old weight. Stress eating is fun, seriously.
Music-
1/4 of the tracks for the year are done. Still going steady.
Pictures and better posts may occur in the future.
Labels: garden, moped, music, update, ww
Tuesday, February 05, 2008
an update of sorts
It's been a month of little victories. Nothing awesome to report, but things are starting to happen. Coming soon is my re-re-commitment to weight loss (maybe after this King Cake).
Labels: update
Monday, December 10, 2007
naming conventions....
Wednesday, October 03, 2007
Updated 32meg!
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
I took a spill off my bike!
Today I decided to get off my ass and back onto my bike. I haven't ridden in @ 3 weeks. I dunno what happened, The Gout, the headcold, rainstorms, & the laziness. But it had to stop.
I hadn't been to the garden in 2 weeks until Sunday, and wanted to get back to watering almost daily schedule. Sunday there was tons of weeding to do, 3lbs of hot peppers and a few tomatoes.
Anyhow...I got up and got out of the house, then went to get some air in my tires from the bike shop. I go to do this and it drains air out of my tire, I then notice a post-it 3 feet from the hose saying "our airhose is broken, feel free to come inside while we're open and fill up", well it was 3 hours before they opened. This angered me because this is the 2nd time this has happened to me there.
So, I ride off North to the gas stations. I get to the first one and realize I'm not carrying any money. So, no $0.25 for the air pump. I proceed to weave my way from Greenbay & Emerson to Golf & McCormick, hitting the 3 gas stations, but none are free air.
I end up along the sculpture parks by the river, but the low air tire is making me work extra hard, so at Dempster, I decide to go home, as I'll never make it to the garden in time to water and get to work on time.
So, as I pass Dodge, I decide to go in to Lake St. as Dempster is very busy. I get over to Lake, but they're doing construction, so I have to get on the sidewalk just a block before Asbury. Up ahead I see Nancy-Fertility Clinic and her double-wide stroller on the cell phone and can see I'll never get past her and that she's oblivious to me. Here comes an alley, so I can get back into the street where I belong (adults on bikes should ride in the street). As I turn into the alley ramp, it's all sand and gravel and the bike skids. I am able to slide out from under the bike and catch myself on my hands and the roll. I don't hit that hard, not knocking the wind out, but close to it. I barely scraped anything, my pants didn't rip, and I'm pretty OK, just shaken.
I get back on the bike, but the chain had popped off, but I fixed it and headed off.
I catch up with Nancy-cellphone at Ridge and see that she's still gabbing oblivious and that there's 2 seats in the stroller with one kid, the empty filled with crap.
I get home shower off and head off to work.
Work is a whole other post, as the letter we got in the mail may be the coolest bit of ridiculousness ever.
I hadn't been to the garden in 2 weeks until Sunday, and wanted to get back to watering almost daily schedule. Sunday there was tons of weeding to do, 3lbs of hot peppers and a few tomatoes.
Anyhow...I got up and got out of the house, then went to get some air in my tires from the bike shop. I go to do this and it drains air out of my tire, I then notice a post-it 3 feet from the hose saying "our airhose is broken, feel free to come inside while we're open and fill up", well it was 3 hours before they opened. This angered me because this is the 2nd time this has happened to me there.
So, I ride off North to the gas stations. I get to the first one and realize I'm not carrying any money. So, no $0.25 for the air pump. I proceed to weave my way from Greenbay & Emerson to Golf & McCormick, hitting the 3 gas stations, but none are free air.
I end up along the sculpture parks by the river, but the low air tire is making me work extra hard, so at Dempster, I decide to go home, as I'll never make it to the garden in time to water and get to work on time.
So, as I pass Dodge, I decide to go in to Lake St. as Dempster is very busy. I get over to Lake, but they're doing construction, so I have to get on the sidewalk just a block before Asbury. Up ahead I see Nancy-Fertility Clinic and her double-wide stroller on the cell phone and can see I'll never get past her and that she's oblivious to me. Here comes an alley, so I can get back into the street where I belong (adults on bikes should ride in the street). As I turn into the alley ramp, it's all sand and gravel and the bike skids. I am able to slide out from under the bike and catch myself on my hands and the roll. I don't hit that hard, not knocking the wind out, but close to it. I barely scraped anything, my pants didn't rip, and I'm pretty OK, just shaken.
I get back on the bike, but the chain had popped off, but I fixed it and headed off.
I catch up with Nancy-cellphone at Ridge and see that she's still gabbing oblivious and that there's 2 seats in the stroller with one kid, the empty filled with crap.
I get home shower off and head off to work.
Work is a whole other post, as the letter we got in the mail may be the coolest bit of ridiculousness ever.
Tuesday, September 04, 2007
Fun stuff
On Saturday night I got a new videogame and a special cable to hook up massive HD capibility from my cable box to my new (but at that time unpurchased TV).
The game was :
Art Of Fighting : Anthology
It has Art Of Fighting 1, 2, & 3! How awesome! It won't load on my PS2 hard drive, so I have to play with the disc, but that's OK, it's an emulator, and is the real game! Yes!
I get to play as the character that always reminded me of Eric back in the day, probably with Eric in the very near future.
We also got a new LCD TV yesterday, as the Westinghouse conked out. I used this as an excuse to get something bigger & better, a 32" Widescreen Vizio VX32L.
I got to actually use HDMI cables and see a DVD last night in upconverted 1080i! We watched the Bourne Identity and it was cool.
I don't have this TV on the wall, I could, but I like it on the shelf for viewing angle better (this week).
The game was :
Art Of Fighting : Anthology
It has Art Of Fighting 1, 2, & 3! How awesome! It won't load on my PS2 hard drive, so I have to play with the disc, but that's OK, it's an emulator, and is the real game! Yes!
I get to play as the character that always reminded me of Eric back in the day, probably with Eric in the very near future.
We also got a new LCD TV yesterday, as the Westinghouse conked out. I used this as an excuse to get something bigger & better, a 32" Widescreen Vizio VX32L.
I got to actually use HDMI cables and see a DVD last night in upconverted 1080i! We watched the Bourne Identity and it was cool.
I don't have this TV on the wall, I could, but I like it on the shelf for viewing angle better (this week).
Wednesday, August 22, 2007
Ooops! Clipped!
I went to the garden today. I usually ride out there on the bike listening to my iPod Shuffle and a book on tape. Yesterday I put the new Chemical Brothers CD & the new (from last year) Squarepusher CD and was jamming out to those.
My garden neighbor lets the weeds crowd into my space, so I was at the fence with a scissors and clipping away the intruders.
I clipped my headphones cord too. Silent ride home.
I know there hasn't been any pictures lately, but fear not, website updates are in the works (for ALL my sites!) and I plan on doing some web comics to catch it up.
My garden neighbor lets the weeds crowd into my space, so I was at the fence with a scissors and clipping away the intruders.
I clipped my headphones cord too. Silent ride home.
I know there hasn't been any pictures lately, but fear not, website updates are in the works (for ALL my sites!) and I plan on doing some web comics to catch it up.
Thursday, August 16, 2007
eBaying to replace a TV
Our LCD TV is all on the fritz, so I'm getting myself in sell mode.
Check out the goods on: eBay.
Gotta get a new TV. And figure out how to pay that ER visit bill. Tell your friends.
Check out the goods on: eBay.
Gotta get a new TV. And figure out how to pay that ER visit bill. Tell your friends.
Monday, August 13, 2007
All about my Gouts.
So, still pretty sure I has a gout. Here's a good link about it: Gout.
So, last Saturday I rode bikes and my shoe was loose and my foot started hurting. Then I had a big steak dinner. Sunday more hurting, but I didn't think much of it.
Monday more hurting, Tuesday more hurting. Wednesday more hurting, and losing sleep. Thursday, many many more hurting, up @ 4AM. Friday, up at 4AM and livid pain. Limped to work (took 30 minutes), went right home in agony. Slept.
Saturday 2AM, went to the Emergency Room. I was hurting very bad. Foot was very swollen, Jenny said it reminded her of one of those foam hands at a sporting event (go team!).
Every doctor that stepped in said "looks like gout", and I'm thinking gout is an elbow thing, and am going "my elbows are fine".
They hit me up with some pain killers and sent me home.
Now, I start retracing my steps armed with the internet of knowledge and realize what caused this...
my vitamin, energy drink & "new energy drink" regimin.
That's right, I caused it. Seems that I was having a 600% daily dose of Niacin as it started, and when eliminating uric acid, the body will chose niacin over it. So the uric acid hit my foot and deposited.
So, I cut out "new energy drink" which was those little 5-hour energy drinks they've been spotting on TV lately. Actually, I cut the regular energy drinks too, for the most part, as the Vicodin & Advil I was taking for the pain helped break that addiction. What can I caffiend on now? Espresso again, I guess.
So, last Saturday I rode bikes and my shoe was loose and my foot started hurting. Then I had a big steak dinner. Sunday more hurting, but I didn't think much of it.
Monday more hurting, Tuesday more hurting. Wednesday more hurting, and losing sleep. Thursday, many many more hurting, up @ 4AM. Friday, up at 4AM and livid pain. Limped to work (took 30 minutes), went right home in agony. Slept.
Saturday 2AM, went to the Emergency Room. I was hurting very bad. Foot was very swollen, Jenny said it reminded her of one of those foam hands at a sporting event (go team!).
Every doctor that stepped in said "looks like gout", and I'm thinking gout is an elbow thing, and am going "my elbows are fine".
They hit me up with some pain killers and sent me home.
Now, I start retracing my steps armed with the internet of knowledge and realize what caused this...
my vitamin, energy drink & "new energy drink" regimin.
That's right, I caused it. Seems that I was having a 600% daily dose of Niacin as it started, and when eliminating uric acid, the body will chose niacin over it. So the uric acid hit my foot and deposited.
So, I cut out "new energy drink" which was those little 5-hour energy drinks they've been spotting on TV lately. Actually, I cut the regular energy drinks too, for the most part, as the Vicodin & Advil I was taking for the pain helped break that addiction. What can I caffiend on now? Espresso again, I guess.
Labels: update
Sunday, August 12, 2007
I has a gout.
In my foot. It hurts.
Labels: update
Monday, July 30, 2007
I had plans...
I was going to switch over this and 32meg.net sites to my other hosting, but I have to do it within the next 10 hours, so I'll waste another $8 this month, but sometime soon, all the websites will have some updates and these 2 will be moved with the rest to the other host.
I spent the weekend playing with my 770, I have root access to it, and made it boot from the mmc memory card instead of the onboard (faster + room to grow).
Linux makes sense to me so far. Yuk!
I spent the weekend playing with my 770, I have root access to it, and made it boot from the mmc memory card instead of the onboard (faster + room to grow).
Linux makes sense to me so far. Yuk!
Tuesday, July 24, 2007
mini @ me's
Some quick updates to later be elaborated on (if I have drive):
We went to Kentucky last weekend to buy a bottle of bourbon only to find out it wasn't yet released.
The garden is well, except another lavender plant died, and the tomato plants are over run with aphids and dying. I identified the black peppers and they are "Black Pearl" and very hot to eat. Very hot. But not as hot as the unidentified green ones next to it. OMG!
I'm selling my Lifedrive, as it has become incompatible with my Macs. It has already been replaced by a Nokia N770, which is an awesome little thing running linux.
I made a decent DJ mix last night but am having software issues preventing me from sharing it (Tracktor crashes).
The cats are well.
So is the wife.
We went to an Apple store opening Saturday (Orland Square) and my mother-in-law got sucked into the RDF and bought a video iPod.
We went to Kentucky last weekend to buy a bottle of bourbon only to find out it wasn't yet released.
The garden is well, except another lavender plant died, and the tomato plants are over run with aphids and dying. I identified the black peppers and they are "Black Pearl" and very hot to eat. Very hot. But not as hot as the unidentified green ones next to it. OMG!
I'm selling my Lifedrive, as it has become incompatible with my Macs. It has already been replaced by a Nokia N770, which is an awesome little thing running linux.
I made a decent DJ mix last night but am having software issues preventing me from sharing it (Tracktor crashes).
The cats are well.
So is the wife.
We went to an Apple store opening Saturday (Orland Square) and my mother-in-law got sucked into the RDF and bought a video iPod.
Labels: update
Friday, July 13, 2007
Busy like a bee! bzz-bzz
Sorry.
I have updates in my head, I hope to type them out soon.
Overall life is good, though.
I have updates in my head, I hope to type them out soon.
Overall life is good, though.
Labels: update
Tuesday, July 03, 2007
maybe soon a real update
maybe not.
4th of July parade is tomorrow at 2PM, I'll be @ Central & McDaniel if you want to say hello and buy me ice-pops.
The garden is doing well, we harvest all of the radishes on Sunday (@3lbs) and planted more.
4th of July parade is tomorrow at 2PM, I'll be @ Central & McDaniel if you want to say hello and buy me ice-pops.
The garden is doing well, we harvest all of the radishes on Sunday (@3lbs) and planted more.
Labels: update
Thursday, June 07, 2007
whoa, where'd this week go?
Wow, Thursday already. Well, given the fact that I made a pig of myself and haven't ridden my bike at all this week, I'll be skipping tonight's weigh-in.
We've been busy getting ready for the 3rd annual garage sale Saturday. I'm selling, not 1 or 2, but 4 Macs (3 CRT iMacs & Jenny's old iBook).
Also, Eric & Hannah got married over the weekend, and we're cat sitting their "special" cat.
I cannot wait for Sunday's official day to myself.
The garden is coming along. The medusa is starting to fruit already. I will do my last nitrogen based fertilizer tomorrow, then it's on to a fruit inducing one. My purple jalepeno pepper seeds finally arrived, so now I need to get a pot and germinate one and get that going.
We've been busy getting ready for the 3rd annual garage sale Saturday. I'm selling, not 1 or 2, but 4 Macs (3 CRT iMacs & Jenny's old iBook).
Also, Eric & Hannah got married over the weekend, and we're cat sitting their "special" cat.
I cannot wait for Sunday's official day to myself.
The garden is coming along. The medusa is starting to fruit already. I will do my last nitrogen based fertilizer tomorrow, then it's on to a fruit inducing one. My purple jalepeno pepper seeds finally arrived, so now I need to get a pot and germinate one and get that going.
Labels: garden, update, ww, yardsale
Friday, June 01, 2007
baby fever--it's not catching....
So, Mojan is knocked up, Phil had a boy, Moe & Steve from the good ol'days just had kids.
Yay for you guys?
Yay for you guys?
Monday, May 28, 2007
I got a new computer...
Thursday, May 17, 2007
If I forget to mention it tomorrow.
Tomorrow will mark 4 years of this blog live. 4 years of the same layout. 4 years of my online blather.
Yikes.
Oops, make that next week:
The beginning was May 23rd, 2003
Yikes.
Oops, make that next week:
The beginning was May 23rd, 2003
Labels: followthru, life, update, way back when
a little thanks
Have you noticed I'm putting more pictures on lately?
That's because my friend & old neighbor Mojan is always putting up photos on her blog about her move to Israel. It's weird to see it, as I imagine it to be all dirt roads and dirt, as I tease Phil about living there, but it seems to have roads and stuff there.
Anyways, my camera isn't as fancy, I don't use/have an image editor (I import into iPhoto and then export the pictures to send as email, then copy those pictures into a folder, then rename them, then FTP them to the "pics" directory, and finally post into Blogger using my massive (feeble) HTML skills) , but I make do.
So, you can see, Tim=audio guy, Mojan=professional graphic designer.
Hopefully my posts are more interesting though, as I'd hate to lose my 4 readers to her blog...
That's because my friend & old neighbor Mojan is always putting up photos on her blog about her move to Israel. It's weird to see it, as I imagine it to be all dirt roads and dirt, as I tease Phil about living there, but it seems to have roads and stuff there.
Anyways, my camera isn't as fancy, I don't use/have an image editor (I import into iPhoto and then export the pictures to send as email, then copy those pictures into a folder, then rename them, then FTP them to the "pics" directory, and finally post into Blogger using my massive (feeble) HTML skills) , but I make do.
So, you can see, Tim=audio guy, Mojan=professional graphic designer.
Hopefully my posts are more interesting though, as I'd hate to lose my 4 readers to her blog...
Labels: followthru, tech, update
Podcast revival!
I finally got a good software to integrate my podcast and website. I'm still ironing out kinks, but I did submit a new small podcast for download.
See sidebar for URL if you're not already down. If you are and didn't see/get the new episode drop me a line, I may have more tweaking to do.
The software I am now using is called "Feeder" for OSX.
See sidebar for URL if you're not already down. If you are and didn't see/get the new episode drop me a line, I may have more tweaking to do.
The software I am now using is called "Feeder" for OSX.
Labels: followthru, podcast, tech, update
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Follow ups...
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
What if?
I'm really liking this new Blogger. What if I went back, and added these "label" tags to the last 4 years of posts? Too much, or an interesting reflection?
Tuesday, February 13, 2007
Changes
I got rid of the 32meg link in the sidebar, clarified that that link to iTunes goes to my Podcast that is available there, got rid of the weird sybols that were in the archive links, and shrunk down the font of those links.
This kind of stuff may reinspire my blogging.
This kind of stuff may reinspire my blogging.
Monday, February 12, 2007
Forced into the new Blogger!
I held out as long as I could, but right now, I guess I had to do it.
So far the move is transparent.
I have one of those digital photograph screens by my desk (@4"x6") that rotates jpegs, it's stuffed with cat pictures.
I'm inviting you to mail me in work safe pictures that I can load onto there, so that maybe your picture will end up in the 10 minute random rotation. I'm especially interrested in pictures you may have of you and me together.
send them to photoframe@eft-teflon.com or to any e-mail address you may have on file for me.
Weight loss? Oh, hi! Um, well, let's say I got myself 3lbs for my birthday and lost 1.6 then gained 2, then lost 2.2, so I'm still not actually losing anymore. The candy bars (yes bars) I ate today due to stress have surely to help me, that and I haven't worked out since it got cold.
I'm pretty sure I owe everyone an e-mail, too.
Did everyone at my birthday celebrations receive their thank you notes?
So far the move is transparent.
I have one of those digital photograph screens by my desk (@4"x6") that rotates jpegs, it's stuffed with cat pictures.
I'm inviting you to mail me in work safe pictures that I can load onto there, so that maybe your picture will end up in the 10 minute random rotation. I'm especially interrested in pictures you may have of you and me together.
send them to photoframe@eft-teflon.com or to any e-mail address you may have on file for me.
Weight loss? Oh, hi! Um, well, let's say I got myself 3lbs for my birthday and lost 1.6 then gained 2, then lost 2.2, so I'm still not actually losing anymore. The candy bars (yes bars) I ate today due to stress have surely to help me, that and I haven't worked out since it got cold.
I'm pretty sure I owe everyone an e-mail, too.
Did everyone at my birthday celebrations receive their thank you notes?
Friday, May 23, 2003
The test trying to get this right.
Labels: update
