Headed off to the in-laws for Turkey day. This year it should be a lot less work than past years has been. We’re going to be roasting a much smaller turkey than usual (only 12-14 lb instead of the monster 25 pounder we did last year) and doing less cooking this year. This time around the festivities are going to be held at my wife’s aunt’s place somewhere near Rocky Mount NC. Should be an interesting time.
More Hooligan Wedding Bells
On the heels of one Hooligan wedding Friday (congratulations again to the round-headed kid and his blonde-haired girl…sorry I couldn’t make the festivities) comes word of another wedding allegedly coming soon. Best known for going underground and vanishing for months at a time, he’s surfaced once again to let me know he’s gotten himself engaged and thinking of a cruise ship wedding possibly in the spring.
Someone’s going to have to go along and make sure he doesn’t forget his wallet.
Another season winding down
It’s finally coming to an end. This year’s hurricane season winds down at the end of the month, and thankfully the last couple of months was blissfully quiet and uneventful. Gaston, which was the only significant storm to affect us this year, got upgraded to a hurricane. Time to pack away the hurricane kit for another 6 months.
Bye bye old vacuum, hello Roomba!
We decided to get a Roomba. Went for the Discovery model after checking it out in the store and reading a few reviews. Hopefully it lives up to the some of the rave reviews I’ve seen about them online. There’s a lot of carpet in this place and it’ll be interesting watching this thing wander around doing the vacuuming for me. And it’ll go under the bed too.
While I’m at it, I need to remember these sites:
Roomba Community Forum.
Roomba guts
spam spam spam spam
I’ve been getting a bunch of comment spam lately with .info URLs in them, so in an attempt to block them I added a pretty broad ranging MT Blacklist regexp to block anything that looks like a domain ending in .info. At least that’s what I think it looks like it’s supposed to do. The regex looks like:
^[a-zA-Z0-9]+([a-zA-Z0-9\-\.]+)?\.(info|INFO)If you get blocked trying to leave a legit comment, fire off an email to me and let me know. The regex will probably need a little tweaking.
BTW, for those of you that aren’t regex gurus, there’s this fantastic site, Regular Expression Library where you can search their library of user submitted regular expressions, and even test out your own. They also have a bunch of links to other regexp resources out there to use.