Category: Miscellaneous babble

USCIS sent me not just one welcome letter informing me of my new permanent residency status, but 7 of them! Maybe this is some form of beaurocratic enthusiasm or something. One would have been just fine. But 7? I guess I could frame one, keep another one on file. Maybe friends and relatives would like one.

I’d better just file them away.

After 6 years of mostly faithful service, I said good bye to our 91 Honda Accord today. It really hadn’t been getting driven around much at all these past few months, and a few weeks ago decided not to start anymore. Plus there was something causing a slow drain on the battery. We decided that with all the outflow of money from the house, it was probably better to get rid of it. We don’t really need two cars right now anyway.

We ended up donating the car to the American Diabetes Association. I probably could have sold it for a decent price by spending some cash and getting it back up and running, but there’s not much spare cash at the moment to pump into the car to get it up and running. With our time frame for moving, donating the car seemed like it would be the most expedient way of disposing of the car rather than waiting for someone to come around and buy it.

Almost made it to 180 000 miles on the car too.

So I’m sitting at the light this morning waiting to get onto the main road so I can head off to work. Just as the light turns green, a couple of motorcycle cops stop in the middle of the intersection, stop traffic in one lane (headed the way I’m trying to go of course), wave traffic through in the other lane. I’m thinking this is a little bit early for a funeral procession and then shortly afterward a caravan of 7 or 8 police cars go through all with lights flashing. Definitely not a funeral procession.

Finally after waiting at the red light again, I’m finally on my way to work. The 8AM news comes on the radio, and they start talking about Bill Clinton (minus Hillary) taking a break down in Kiawah. Nowhere near the Folly Beach direction these police cars were headed from, but maybe he decided to take a jog down Folly or something.

Or maybe it was just a bunch of people headed to where The Bill was going.
Guess I’ll never know…

I was really looking forward to going to see Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy when it opens in a couple of weeks. But after reading parts of this review (warning: massive spoilers, non-spoiler version here), I’m not so sure I want to bother with it now.

I really wasn’t expecting much out of it anyway, since 99% of what makes HHGtG so funny is the small dialogue and obscure British humour that’s likely to get cut in any movie adaptation.

Rats…now I wish I hadn’t packed up my big HHGtG Trilogy in Five Parts compilation…I’ll have to wait until it gets unpacked before I can start reading it again.

Found at Slashdot.org.

Mark Treadwell over at Geekswithblogs.net has a hurricane category with a bunch of good tips for preparing and suriving hurricane season.

Now that I’ll have a house to deal with this year, there will be a lot of work for me researching and acquiring the tools to storm-proof the house.