Archive for April, 2005

Rain rain get the hell away

All this rain is driving me crazy. The main reason is it’s affecting my ability to do lawn care.
Now that’s not necessarily a bad thing–I generally hate lawn care so any excuse to get out of it is usually good. But I really want to do some serious re-seeding in the brown spots I created […]

Bought another useless domain

I’m not sure I’m gonna keep this when it expires next year, but I just bought the Looavul.com domain. That’s the way a lot of people here pronounce the name of our city–”looavul” rather than “loo-e-vil” which is how outsiders say it.
I was a little surprised that this phonetic version was still available. Somebody […]

Will DualDisc save the music industry?

I was wandering the aisles of the nearby Wal-Mart Supercenter one night last week, looking to buy a large padded envelope so I could mail the local Sunday paper to somebody. As I wandered the aisles I of course had to stop in the electronics section at the back of the store. That’s […]

Coldest lawn mowing weather ever

Today has got to be the coldest I’ve ever been outside mowing the lawn. Lat week this time it was like mid-70’s but the last few days we’ve had a big cold front that has lowered temperatures 20 degrees or more. And dumped a lot of rain on the area.
That’s the problem–my lawn […]

Flat-panel TV’s starting to enter my price range

I was at Best Buy today, mostly just to pick up some s-video cables. I’m changing my hook-ups from old RCA cables to the s-video cables–Dish, DVD, and PS2 now are all s-video thru a little switch box to the old TV. I don’t have a fancy home theater set-up, unlike some people […]

Gonna skip Thunder

The forecast is for a cold and potentially drizzly Thunder Over Louisville tomorrow. I went to the airshow last year, though I skipped out before the fireworks. It was a lot of fun, but a lot of that was because the weather was absolutely spectacular–temps in the 80’s and not a cloud in […]

Phase 1 of the War is done

So I forgot to take a photo of it, but the weed killer seems to have done its duty–there are brown dead spots in the lawn where the dandelions used to be. I re-seeded last night and watered the lawn a little bit. There’s supposed to be rain tonight or tomorrow so that […]

Loving Lego Star Wars

The new Lego Star Wars game is sucking up a lot of my time. The premise is done so well–you play thru the first three episodes of Star Wars, but as Lego characters. It’s a kid’s game but it’s fun enough that adults, or at least adults like me, can enjoy it.
What I like is […]

Leaving Las Vegas

Well, actually I have already left Sin City. I’m back home as of very early Friday morning. Posted some photos over on Webshots.

The War Against The Dandelions

This is my second summer owning a house with an actual yard. As opposed to owning a condo in the city. So last summer I had to spend my money accumulating the tools for lawn care–a mower, a string trimmer, hoses, sprinklers, rakes, hedge trimmer, and so on. Leaving me no budget […]