July 26, 2006

Amazon Groceries

I didn’t even know they were doing it until I saw a link over at instapundit but Amazon.com has gotten into the online grocery business. I have always liked the idea, but living in eastbumblefuck as I do figured I would never have to worry about trying it.

I made a quick run through, and the prices are reasonable, particularly for a lazy ass geek like me. Most of the stuff is in bulk, so if you only go shopping once every couple of weeks or month like I do, it’s even better. I may have to try it out. As Instapundit says, if anyone can make it work, Amazon can.


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Blood Mountain

The Grey Biker’s post about a camping trip I made with my son a few years back. I couldn’t remember if I had told this story before and can’t find it in my archives, so here it is.

As a child I was very active. I enjoyed being outside and particularly loved camping, and hiking and all sorts of outdoor activities. I was active in the Boy Scouts and even into my teen years full of drugs and partying, I would still go hiking. I was in pretty good shape and walked everywhere I went even into my early twenties. Hell, I never even bothered to get a driver’s license until I was 21. I rode the bus, rode the subway, and walked everywhere.

As I get older I remember this with a fondness that grows more as I get older. I probably didn’t have as much fun as I think I did. So a few years ago, I think Chris was probably eight or nine, we decided to go on a hiking trip up to Blood Mountain. It’s not too bad. If I remember correctly, it’s maybe three miles from the highway up to the top. We started out fairly early in the day. Since Chris was still pretty young, I ended up carrying most of the stuff. Fuck. It took most of the day to get there. I was wheezing and hacking the entire day and pissed off, and just wanted to get to the top to get it over with. Once I got there, we got camp set up, cooked dinner, and set up the tent. It was fucking cold and I had not brought enough blankets. We were both miserable as hell. I was never happier to get the fuck off that mountain.

It IS beautiful up there though. I love the mountains. Just have to remember that I don’t like hiking as much as I thought I did. Day hikes are OK, but packing in all that crap is just not for me anymore. I like my comforts and conveniences too much.


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Happy Birthday Drug WarRant

Drug WarRant is one of the sites that are way down at the bottom of my blogroll, because it has been there longer (new ones are added at the top), so I only get there on days when I am starting from the bottom, like today. Anyway, I hate the so-called War on Drugs and support legalization of pot, so I agree with quite a bit that I find over here.

It’s kind of funny, because I don’t smoke (pot) and haven’t in a long time, but I see no good reason for that stopping any other adults that want to.


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Downtime

I don’t know what it is but I have been having intermittent downtime off and on for a couple of weeks. It is starting to get really irritating and makes me want to bash my head against the monitor, but since lightning took out my flat panel, this is the only one left. Damn it.


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Hornworms




Hornworms

Originally uploaded by rmiles.

This bastard was on one of my tomato plants. All it’s missing is a fucking hooka.

Andrea Yates gets off

A jury found Andrea Yates not guilty by reason of insanity. I think everyone knows that she was insane, but shit. She should have to pay some kind of penalty. Apparently she is being committed to a State Mental Health facility with periodic hearings to determine whether she should be released. Bullshit.


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DDOS Attacks

Fucking assholes. Got up about 30 or 40 minutes ago, tried to access my site. No go. I finally checked via IP address and did a bit of troubleshooting, and sure enough, it’s down. Sent an email to tech support, and they replied back within a couple of minutes. Apparently it’s DDOS attacks. Damn, must be Hezbollah trying to keep down my poignant wit, or trolls that don’t want you to read my intelligent commentary, or maybe right-wing, ultra-conservative, blue hairs that just don’t like the word fuck. Well, FUCK YOU then.

I have been pretty lucky. I have never seen much downtime with my current provider. Hell, I had more down time when I hosted it via the server in my basement, which is why I moved it offline.

Fine, I posted at MySpace. Then again if I am able to post this it means that my site is back up and the point is moot.

It’s 6:20am now, and the site is back up. Good deal.


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