Arm still attached

February 11, 2008 at 3:48 pm | blabbing.

It has been over a year since my first operation on my arm and I am glad to say that it is still attached. After the second surgery last July there was a time when I thought it would be painful and actually worse, but it healed pretty well, and now I don’t even think… Read more »

A Sailors Valentine

February 8, 2008 at 1:53 pm | blabbing.

I was doing some reading up on Valentines day, on Wikipedia and ran across these cool things called Sailors Valentines. Sailors while at sea would make these octagon wooden boxes and decorate them with shells to bring back to their wives and girlfriends. Some of them like this current one made by lynda susan hennigan… Read more »

Saving money

February 7, 2008 at 2:55 pm | blabbing.

I have been reading the Simple Dollar site pretty regularly and while some of the advice are things that I already do, I like the consistent tone and advice. The biggest thing that he doesn’t really go into is one of the first things that I learned. When at all possible “Buy in Bulk”. Bathroom… Read more »

Microsoft wants to waste lots of money

February 4, 2008 at 1:12 pm | blabbing.

I’m convinced that MS is on some sort of total self destruction path. $44 BILLION? for Yahoo? They need to get their heads examined. Even if it did go through, and that would take a year, then they would spend another year trying to integrate the companies and then they would only be like a… Read more »

Rain

January 25, 2008 at 2:10 pm | blabbing.

Rain rain rain rain rain rain rain. Rain rain, rain rain rain rain rain. Rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain. Rain rain rain rain rain wet. RAIN!

Google Finance and perspective

January 22, 2008 at 5:03 pm | blabbing.

The ajax tool in Google Finance is great for getting a little perspective on the markets, especially when they go crazy like they have been since the beginning of the year. You can see that the market looks totally crazy, but if you use the stretcher bars and lengthen the time line you see that… Read more »

INCONCEIVABLE.

January 17, 2008 at 5:54 pm | blabbing.

Inigo Montoya: You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.

Musicians Friend Customer Service = Hell

at 4:51 pm | blabbing.

I am still here, in hell. My recent post about trying to buy a Pre-Amp is still an ongoing customer service infinite loop. 1. Order a product 2. Discover product doesn’t have a power supply 3. Return Product 4. Customer service is nice and apologetic offers to reship product with power supply and take money… Read more »

New Years clean up

January 14, 2008 at 4:50 pm | blabbing.

I am spending a little time over the past week or so cleaning up my messy desks at home and at work. I tend to accumulate lots of little odds and ends on my desks. My work one is pretty good if I keep the papers in order but my home desk gets messy quickly… Read more »

Trying to buy a Chameleon Labs Pre-Amp

January 12, 2008 at 2:42 pm | blabbing.

I never thought it would be so hard to buy a working product. The comedy of errors around the Chameleon Labs 7602 pre-amp channel strip is truly epic in proportions. I am defeated and I have given up on the idea of owning one of these. I had heard some really good reviews of this… Read more »