Category: Miscellaneous babble

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.

After a 2 1/2 year patient wait, we were summoned to the Charleston USCIS office (formerly INS) for my Adjustment of Status interview. Armed with my ream of paperwork (still ended up forgetting a couple of things), we headed off to their new location off Highway 7. A much nicer setting than their previous location on Meeting St, although not nearly as nice a view. Actually no view at all.

After a short wait (30 minutes or so), we met with the USCIS officer, told him our story, gave him the requested documentation, answered his questions and at the end I was rewarded with a stamp in my passport giving me permanent resident status (more colloquially known as the “green card”)! I’m told the actual card should be coming in 2-6 months. Hopefully it doesn’t get lost in the mail when we move.

Now I can live and work here without having to remember to renew this or that every year. Big weight taken off now that I don’t have to worry about it.

Now if I can only get this house thing wrapped up…but that’s a story for another post.

There are two great big honking machines on the site of the new hospital hammering big long concrete pilings into the ground. You can almost do the bat thing and practically navigate the construction site with your eyes closed just by listening for the echoes from the pile driving. With a little bit of concentration, I can just about make a mental map of the surrounding buildings just by the echoes. Of course knowing where the surrouding buildings are helps a bit too.

When they’re both going at the same time, they make quite the racket. And from the looks of all the big long trucks delivering pilings, it’s going to be going on for quite some time.

So Nala’s been with us almost 3 weeks now. We got her just as pollen season was heating up. With the weather warming up, now everything is getting into full bloom and there’s the usual light green dust covering everything. Even the dog comes back home with a light dusting of green after going out for a walk.
This year the wife is being hit with allergies harder than ever. Sniffling, sneezing her head off and the Alavert/Claritin isn’t helping much this time. Time for a trip to the doctor for something a little stronger.
So, is it the seasonal pollen allergies, or is it the dog? Or maybe both?