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Best Maine license plate I’ve seen so far

Wednesday, 12 October 2005

I talked with the owner of the vehicle. She’s handicapped (or physically challenged for you politically correct people out there) and wanted something funny to go along with the handicapped denotion on the plate. “Oops” was it. She’s had that plate designation for thirteen years.

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Keep on keepin’ on

Wednesday, 12 October 2005

That forty-four acre thing fell through. Pop was outbid by a very large margin. I can totally understand why - the land was A-1 primo stuff going for a fire sale price. How could anyone not want it.

All is not lost however. I went to look at another house on Pop’s behalf today. Looked good. He might go for that one instead. As far as I’m concerned with the whole land/subdivide thing I mentioned before, I’ll speak more on that at another time.

The job situation still totally sucks. Blah. If anything cool happens with it - TRUST ME - I will be mentioning it here. ;-)

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Moving

Thursday, 13 October 2005

Pop bought the house I looked at the other day, so all is good there. It may finally be that he’ll be able to move here without a hitch. Pop also got a real good deal on the house. That was cool.

In biz news, I may have something in the wings that could prove to be profitable. It’s too early to tell right now what will happen, but we’ll see how things turn out.

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Book ‘em, Dano

Friday, 14 October 2005

I get a local dishrag called The Weekly - Greater Bangor’s Weekly Community News Source in the mail. It’s a newspaper twelve pages in length (really small). One of the more entertaining sections is Court News. Here’s a few for ya. I’ll leave the names out but post age and gender:

38/m: Unlawful use of bait in artificial lure-only water, $50

18/m: Minor possessing liquor, $200

20/m: Failure to display ATV registration numbers, $100

24/f: Two counts operating vehicle while license suspended or revoked, $300 each count.

15/m: Possession tobacco products by minor, $100

25/m: Speeding 30-plus more than posted speed, $300 suspended; driving to endanger $400, jail 48 hours, license suspended 180 days.

38/f: Fishing without valid license, $100

22/m: Furnishing liquor to minor, $400

29/m: Operating vehicle without license, $75

48/m: Attaching false plates, $200; habitual motor vehicle offender, $500, jail 48 hours.

32/f: Negotiating worthless instrument, $100, restitution, $44 (I have absolutely no idea what “worthless instrument” means or stands for)

34/m: Fish violation of number, amount, weight or size, $140

19/f: Operating vehicle without license, $200

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From the apartment window

Saturday, 15 October 2005

This is what it looks like looking across the street from where I live.

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Feeds

Saturday, 15 October 2005

For those interested in this sort of thing, I’ve turned back on the RSS and ATOM feeds for my web site. If using Firefox (and you should), you’ll see a small orange icon at the bottom right corner of your browser you can use as a bookmark. If using Thunderbird (and you should), you can subscribe to the feed. Don’t worry it doesn’t cost anything. :-)

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And now, the Ben report

Saturday, 15 October 2005

Ben is a long time friend who lives where I used to live (Northeastern Connecticut USA). The rain has been hitting there hard, even moreso than up here in Bangor. The river Ben’s pointing to used to be several feet lower. Pop told me earlier on the phone that Route 171 was washed out in Woodstock CT earlier today (maybe still is?)

This rain is getting ridiculous - and it’s rainin’ hard in Bangor right now.

(The Ford Granada thing is an inside joke. Maybe someday I’ll tell the tale here)

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Ye Olde ‘86 Camaro

Sunday, 16 October 2005

Some of my friends have been asking for a long time for me to get a pic up of the old Camaro I used to own. Well, here it is. Decided to go artsy and take a photo of a photo (haHA!)

I had this car for five years. It had a 5-speed stick and a slow 173ci MPFI 2.8 V6, rated at 140 horsepower. Of course, my Camaro had well over 150,000 miles on it so it was probably around 125 horse at best.

All my friends absolutely loved this car. Girls I dated positively drooled over it. Originally the car was white. I had it repainted to 1999 Pontiac Manta Green (color is available by looking it up in any NAPA paint chip book, just go to a NAPA and ask).

Even friends of mine who positively hated Chevy’s liked mine because it was done right.

The car was 100% bone stock with no options and no mods whatsoever, but clean as a whistle. Interior was near mint and 100% black - the blackest interior you’ve ever seen. It had the original Delco 15-watt CD player which worked wonderfully.

Why did I get rid of it? I hardly ever drove it. It’s not that I couldn’t drive it (it was very driveable), it’s just that I couldn’t do anything with it other than cruise. Even with a car as cool looking as mine was, the engine just didn’t do it justice.. that and it had a shitload of miles on it.

I eBay’d the car for $1000 which is what it was worth. I don’t really miss the car, but all my friends do. ;-)

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About the Weird One

Sunday, 16 October 2005

No one, I repeat, no one should not know who “Weird Al” Yankovic is. I visit his site periodically. I get a good chuckle out of some of the things he puts there.

On his news page, he’s got AL on iTunes! that starts off with “Do you hate owning CD’s? Are they just too round and three-dimensional for you?” I like that because how can something be “too” round.

At the bottom of the news page is the poster Read along with Al. Why is this funny? Well, the American Library Association thought that a long-haired guy with a crazy look on his mug would get kids to read - that’s why. I seriously may buy it just for the comic factor. And if in fact it does get kids (or anyone else for that matter) to read, all the better.

I once read an interview on the ‘net some college kid did with Al. He thought that Al would be some crazy kook that was a few sandwiches short of a picnic. He wasn’t. Al is probably one of the most unfunny guys in real life because all of his parody material is manufactured to be funny. I’m not insulting Al here - far from it. Personally I think the guy is a genius and one of the best musicians I’ve ever heard. The point is that just because someone acts crazy on television (and in the movies) doesn’t mean they are. After all, the guy is a Cal PolyTech grad - he definitely isn’t stupid by any stretch of the imagination (although he would dare you to be stupid.. heh)

Go check out Weird Al. He is a genius of our time.

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Potpourri

Wednesday, 19 October 2005

Werk:

I’ve acquired two things concerning the werk situation: Jack and Shit. And Jack left town. You know, it’s not like I’m being overly picky when it comes to werk. I have applied for more or less any type of job I think I could do and no one calls. Depressing.

House:

Pop has encountered a hurdle. The closing will not occur today, but, it will occur next week so it’s a small hurdle. I also have to get a key to the house from the realtor because I’m in charge of getting Pop’s stuff in the house and supervise when the movers show up, et cetera.

Music:

I wrote what is possibly one of the best rock songs I’ve ever written last night. darn, does it sound good. Unfortunately it’s too “light” for the band I’m currently in, but I will definitely use it on a side project - no doubt about it.

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