strange behaviour

Hmm. Suddenly my comments are coming to me as attachments. I don't know if that is a thing with MT or Outlook.

power outage

We lost power this morning, probably around 6AM. I think it lasted around 40 minutes or so, because the little clock on my desk is flashing "4:00" so it's been four hours since power restored, and I woke up at 6 after hearing the smoke detectors let out their little squeaks saying that main power is gone, so "now we're on battery power". At first I thought one of their batteries died (because that tends to happen in the dead of night), but then I realized I couldn't see the alarm clocks.

I think that also the fact that I couldn't hear any ambient noise produced when the power is on helped wake me as well..

Does anyone else get woken up when the power goes off in the middle of the night just for sheer lack of ambient noise? Just curious. Gotta get ready for work now.

oops…

I realize that every single entry that I've posted since starting this thing is probably visible on this single page... I'm working on fixing it!! I'm not sure what went wrong...

update: Ok, it's fixed, temporarily.. not quite to my liking, but I have other things to do.. like watch tv and go to sleep. :o)

now that that is done…

Ok, I feel better now.

Today being my middle-of-the-week day off, I drove to Barnet-Dulaney-Perkins to return a refund check that they had mailed to me. (it was a double refund.. unfortunately I am an honest person and made sure they were aware of it)

While I was out, I stopped by Jutenhoops (sp?) on Camelback, because I know they carry dragon sculptures there. They had three curios full of them by various artists... I was mainly studying them, how different artists interpret how a dragon should look and whatnot. I noticed that many of them give dragons opposable thumbs on the front paws, which is what I do as well. It just makes sense, else how are they supposed to grab the virgins left for sacrifice and bite their little heads off grab nifty jewels or spheres?

Feh. There were plenty of pretty ones, and just as many ugly ones. While I haven't mastered making a dragon with scales all over its body, I still think the one I'm working on currently is better than most of those I saw today. So I'm tooting my own horn, sue me. ;o) I'll post a pic of the one I'm working on when its done. I know I said I expected to have it done like last Saturday or the one before, but I was lazy. It's nearly finished, I just have to attach its wings and re-bake it... and the dragon itself will be done. Then I'll have to make an "environment" for it, 'cause it'll look a little strange if I don't (it's pose).

Time to go watch some television before bed.

Reorganizing

I'm doing some reorganizing of posts in my blog.. I made a protected folder for especially incriminating work rants, so if you want to be able to read them you'll need the username and password for that directory.

e-mail me if you want it, but be forwarned, I won't be giving it out to just anyone. I prefer that you already have a blog that either I visit already, or that I can go visit to get an idea of your character before giving the password. Basically, I want to make sure you don't work for my company (one person excluded, and you know who you are). If you don't have a blog, e-mail me and I'll mull it over carefully. But don't be too offended if I say no.

Oh, and special thanks to D for her tutorial on how to set this up!

testing..

testing something in my blog. disregard this post.

pictures, many pictures..

Well, even though we had up to four hours to wander in the Big Room and take pictures, we only spent about an hour there. Since that is a live cave, the humidity is at 98%. It was about 69 degrees inside, but with that much humidity, it feels like 80. Maybe even 85. It was quite warm. And damp.

Anyway, we got plenty of pictures. I'm not sure how many Josh took, but I took over 90. I tried deleting the really bad ones as I went along so I wouldn't have too many blurry shots to sort through later, but there are still some of those I'll have to eliminate. Most of my blurry photos are the ones where I tried using the low-light setting. A very difficult task since the shutter stays open longer and you have to hold the camera really, really still. Tripods were not allowed inside so I had to make due by propping the camera on the hand-rails and trying my best to hold it steady.

Eventually I'll sort through the pictures and post a few here. Ninety pictures is a lot to go through, folks. So don't expect any really soon. ;o)

it was inevitable…

I do believe I've been comment-spammed...

The comment had nothing to do with the entry, and it was advertising a non-blog website... so it is spam.

I am going to ban that IP, and if was done by someone I know (or whose blog I read), e-mail me privately.

share a little of that luck, will ya?

In the last two weeks, there have been three new millionaires in Indiana.

One won half of the big Powerball jackpot. The drawing immediately thereafter was also won in Indiana.

The drawing from Wednesday was also won in Indiana.

Maybe I should move to Indiana. They seem to be luck-hogs. And here I thought those extra numbers the lottery officials added to the pool were supposed to make the drawings harder to win. Sheesh.

Bastards.

taking it day by day…

No food poisoning, for the curious.
But next time I know where to look for that handy-dandy expiration date.

As for other things..... well, let's just say, I'd much rather be home sculpting, today more than ever.

I will refrain from discussing work, while I'm at work.

Oh, how I want to rant, but it must wait.

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