ROFL!!

No, chicken curry and fried rice.

Bought HK a new trackball for her PC, the same one she got me for Valentine's Day... except SHE didn't have to wait for a holiday.

How do you spell "spoiled"? H-e-l-l-o-K-i-t-t-y, "spoiled".

Well, I wouldn't be if you'd of thought of it yourself??? Duhhhhh!

^ S-P-O-I-L-E-D ^

BWAHAHAHA AHAHHAA

Today, I woke up, went to the gym, and had some breakfast. Then I showered, and now I'm about to post some news while listening to The Beach Boys!!

Watched my team dump Liverpool out of the FA Cup!!!

Working on my price list... hmm, we rape AND get raped.

Went golfing in a howling gale, my two competitors bailed out at the ninth leaving me to win by default!

Finished my price list, earned a headache and watched a whole NASCAR race!!!!!!

Watched the NASCAR 'Cup race (I just can't force myself to say 'Nextel' yet) and in soon to be in the process of hanging a new microwave above the stove.

Sat on my butt, attempted to do some work, but really watched a good Cup race. Shame Rockingham lost it's second race to California.

Went to my sisters confirmation at church, had a family dinner, took a nap, worked in Visio for 2 or 3 hours.

This one's gonna be long, so grab a beer in the bar, kick your feet up, and settle in:

Just got back from some wheeling- totally impromptu, just as I was finishing up my dual battery and self-slave system <which works like a champ, FYI> one of the new guys in the Jeep club calls me.

When I finally got there, there's a 93 YJ mired to the axles in goop. Not only that, but the guys running it <2 young kids> were hooking a winchline from it to a tree and rope out of range. I pulled well ahead and listened as they pulled a tree down. Then watched as they somehow managed to snarl the line on a $1100 winch, putting it out of the fight.

Offered my help and then positioned myself for a diagonal pull <I know, not the best, but no other choice> and proceeded to slowly pull them out- up and over an embankment, out of ruts they were straddling as they were high-centered along the long axis.

Backed off to let them out, and told the other guy <brand new Rubicon> "watch this-- they'll cut the turn too tight and get stuck again". Sure enough, they did.... then sat there with no progress forward or back and just tached out the engine, bouncing it off the rev limiter. Idiots. So I pull forward again and this time do a compound line pull to get them on their way. They weren't very happy when, after they said "man, that's a good winch- what kind is it?" I answered: "Harbor Freight. Bought it for $150". Sure it's slow- but their super-zoot fast Warn $1100 winch wasn't getting them anywhere.

The Rubi and I decide to penetrate the bush farther <this area has tiger grass about chest high everywhere, with bogs just under the surface in random areas>. I blaze and penetrate about a klick farther before I startle a brace of deer. Luckily, they were there- because after I stopped I noticed there's a bloody BIG hole in front of me. Reverse march.....

I let the Rubi blaze the way back we've come, since he's got lockers. Figure, worse come to it, I can always tug him out backwards and once he gets to hard ground on the far side if need be, I can use him as an anchor and pull myself to him. Wasn't about to have to do that though, at this point.

Sure enough, he manages to get stuck- for whatever reason, he decided to put his wheels in the ruts instead of atop the berm. Just about the time I notice the tripod trail he's leaving, all forward progress stops. Had to tug him back about 75 feet, dragging all the way. Then he gets the bright idea to blaze across the thickest tiger grass to the other side of the right-of-way. Sure enough, he got stuck again. Wish I'd worn jeans- the grass and the thornbushes ripped my legs to shreds. Another long pull, made worse by all the grass resisting his progress <he had no traction at all and with the offset angle he got pulled out a different way>.

So I tell him again- take the same path you took first time, but bear to the left and put your wheels on the high point. Give 'er 4Lo, hell bent for leather, and don't stop till you either make it to firm ground or stop making any forward progress. He does this time, and sure enough he's out. He's nice enough to stage as a hardpoint at the other end for me, in case I need a tug, too.

I just put my rig in 4Lo, and gave her a moderate flogging all the way. No worries- in and out in a jiff, my rig bouncing all over the place as I careen through the surprise dips in the mud, a la Camel Trophy. With all the high grass and muck, it looked like some of the coverage I've seen of the Outback Challenge and the like. Of course, dumbass here forgot my camera. Grrrrr!!!! I was being tossed all about the cabin on the last part as I made my run- definitely going to have to put the camcorder hardmount in soon.

Darn good thing I had my auxiliary battery wired in- as I left for the trip, since I'd had my doors open and ignition and radios on for hours, the primary battery was flat and wouldn't crank. No worries- hit the Auto-Slave button for such occasions and she cranked right up, good as new. This is definitely something I'm going to do to my other rig <89 S-Blazer, soon to be wearing Wagoneer D44's front and rear>. If you other XJ Jeepers haven't considered removing the factory air box in favor of a second battery, I HIGHLY advise it. It's just so useful for jumpstarting in the middle of nowhere and so on. Checked all my voltages- batteries are showing 13.4, alternator charging at 14. A tad higher than I'd like to see on the alternator, but fine enough considering how many times I've dunked her.

So yeah, I had a lot of fun today. Got a bunch of work done on my rig yesterday- started at 0500 with the ujoints <done by worklight!>, then wired up my CB <which the antenna cable was promptly ripped apart by a root today- gotta finish my bumper!>, ran some wires through the firewall, and did some welding on a friend's CJ's belly skids.

Went to work and help out one of colleague in replacing faulty motherboard on one of the compaq (Spit Spit). Then to find that he boast that he did it.....

I got dressed up and had some pizza!!!

Pizza demands respect, worth dressing up for

You got that right, big boy!!

Start some assignment, install Nero 6 and cooking the late tea....

Got up. Made coffee. Drank coffee. Worked all morning. Ate lunch. Worked all afternoon.

Took notes in one class, took a quiz in another.

Played secrets weapons of normandy at work .............. all day

saw my atendance record at shool.. i mised 40% of it 8|

Worked in Visio for a while. Watched KU lose.

Merged two of my main pastimes by helping a friend virus-scan his son's hard drive with my laptop and USB removeable HDD unit sitting on the tailgate of my Jeep - since it was such a nice day outside.

I took some nice pics of my motorcycle and have it up for sale on Ebay. Wifey says if it sales I get a new one.

Got up, wish I hadnt, gonna go home soon and back to bed, feel a real bad cold/flu coming on.

Poor Bazzy!

Today, I noticed how multicultural my company's coroporate Web site is. And wished I was still in bed, sleeping.

hmm...Guess I should have read the email that introduced the "revamped" site:

Had a class on Sexual Harassment avoidance with all the other droids at the company.....

... in a COMPLETELY unrelated event <of course> wondered how it is that a certain buxom female and I haven't been fired.

EDIT: oh yeah- found out Saturday that Jimmy Buffett is coming back to Columbia in April. W00t!!!!!!!!

I'm SO there! Already asked for that day and the day after off. I'm doin' it right this time-- driving up at 6am the day of the concert, setting up my tailgate, partying all day, and going to crash in a hotel after the event so I don't have to be "quite so careful" driving back home.

Oh my BK, careful, some people are nice on the outside, but real sharks on the inside!

So far, I've done some reading...some chatting...some catching up on email...and some Christmas party planning.

But the most exciting of all is getting ready to watch some hockey tonight and have some good grub!! Detroit is going DOWN!!! Hurrah Canucks!!

Got up to heavy rain, thunderstorms, and a flooded back room. Seems the roof patching I did wasn't enough, so spent all day on the roof patching some more.

Heck- after that class, I was "Mr Eggshells"- being completely careful....

..... and she got a bit worse about it! ;>

<office space> show her my OOH! face.... OOOH!... OH!!</office space>

I feel yo' pain Brutha!

Remember almost 2 years ago when all those hail storms hit? Well, we had a lot of the same, as well as broken skylights along with hail and rain in the living room, in addition to the 2 damaged and 1 totaled out car(s).

You can't imagine how gun shy I am when it comes to rain storms around here anymore.

*edit* Oh yeah... I came home just in time to try and resurrect my Webserver/FTP Server/Router/Gateway to no avail. After an hour of exhausting every resource available to me, I got the permanent BSOD (blue screen w/white vertical streaks) while reinstalling Win2K Adv Server. Time of Death, 16:45 - 22 Feb 04

If anyone would like to deliver a eulogy for our dearly departed Rusty, the service will be held sometime this weekend.

I had to break down and buy a new rig for meg, as my old one she used to use didn't survive the move... ... That didn't happen today, but I feel your pain, E. That thing was my first build ever...

...."the wife"

at work again, feel a little better today, but way too much work to do...

Went to work late.....but don't care! As am da boss for the week.....

Sorting out few thing then a coffee break!

Had a very hard time staying awake at work.

Got up and cooked some noodles, which I'm eating right now.

Went to an intership fair and got a lead on a job.

Removed a virus from 1200 PC's

I tidied up my desk at work But I really should wipe it down.

Tidy up my workbench at home and trying to get my pig sty house into order with Harvey being in my face!! Grr!!

Then an early tea then am off to see my mother....

Got most of my back-log of paperwork/threatening e-mails to the Weasel done!!!!!!!

Worked in ASP.NET and SQL Server all day. Still not done but have 2 of the four things required done.

Worked on some of our clients today as we could make progress due to nicer weather and did a few chores, plus I am going to get the bathroom cabinet installed. Dang it.

Finished filling out my portion of the FAFSA. Now to mail it to my parents so they can fill it out and mail it in.

FINALLY received my Aussie bush hat:

They must have had the damn thing shipped on a dinghie- it took about a month to get here. That's what I get for wearing a size XXL hat. My head is literally 2 feet around it's circumference.

Sure, doesn't sound like much of a big deal, but when you've gone over to the ranks of those sans hair, it's AWFULLY welcome when it's cold and rainy like it was today.

I wished I had my Black Eyed Peas CD with me.

I had a more stress free day than yesterday