Some things I've accomplished:
- I now have the Pioneer HD radio add-on doodad in my car. HD radio works remarkably well where I am, but WTOP's HD3 signal is just too weak at the moment to be of any significant use for my inbound commute. This is especially dismaying, as I get HD subchannels for almost all other stations that offer them. I think the only one I have problems with on anything resembling a regular basis is WIYY (98 rock, Baltimore) and even that is only once I get inside the beltway. All in all, I'm pretty pleased with it, though. It does make picking a route home easier, and getting into town to go to the zoo is easier with the added information.
- I've gotten maybe 15% of my film collection done. I still haven't picked any frames to put up, but oh well. I've got the pathway to where I want to hang some of my bigger posters clear, so at least there's that.
- For quite some time, I've been wishing someone would make a functional equivalent of Transitions lenses that weren't corrective. Turns out they do... I just ordered a set of climate control (i.e. removable gasket sealed, a feature I'm looking forward to for walking around in the winter) light adjusting shades. Bonus - polycarbonate lenses, ANSI rated to some standard or another. I'm going to give them a whirl; it seems like if they're good enough for the department of defense, they should do something resembling the trick for me.
- iPod Touch software 2.0: 10 bucks got me the ability to use my iPod as a remote control for iTunes on my desktop computer. Oh, also, I can connect to the campus network without needing a login page now. That's about it.
- Sweating. Why has it been so hot lately? I've actually gone to see two movies in the last 8 days... one of them actually cost me $10 to sit through.
So that's it for now. I'm starting to feel really useless with my inability to spend more than 20 seconds outside, but I imagine this will fix itself one day. I'm actually going to try to go out for a short walk tomorrow, so I will hopefully have killed a roll of the Kodachrome and have some pictures to post for once.
I seem to remember doing better than this last year and the year before... think it was the move?
Wow, look at all these pictures I took this weekend!
ReplyDeleteOh wait... I spent most of Sunday rolling around on my couch wishing it was cooler in my apartment than I can afford.
I did buy the last copy (volume 1 and 2) of the Gennedy Tartakovsky Clone Wars on DVD, so I watched that because it was awesome. Then I watched Empire because I wanted to. Take that, Sunday!
Hopefully you two were more productive than I was...
i moved the lawn, made a non-decision on a faucet to go in a bathroom we're getting closer to finishing (a FUNCTIONAL non-decision tho!), silly stuff like that. mostly just a nice weekend to have the Girl back from a 10-day business trip out of the country.
ReplyDeletemaybe next weekend will be more productivish
-GMT
Nat,
ReplyDeleteI feel your pain.
I spent Thursday and Friday moving my sister into her apartment in Towson, and the A/C was broken in the apartment until Saturday morning. The best the A/C could do was about 77-79 degrees, but with the door open for all the moving, it got hotter than that. It was about 90% of the worst days in B'ham, but down there you stay indoors on those days.
I haven't taken a picture since the middle of June at Eshqua Bog. The bar is Tuesday and Wednesday of next week, so by next Friday I should be able to get back out. Unfortunately, now all the wildflowers have mostly bloomed, and the waterfalls are dry again.
- Josh