Bungle Ink

Still October

2009-10-28T03:10:25Z

Hey, I noticed the calendar a second time in a month!

Where has the time gone?

2009-10-03T01:39:22Z

Try to remember, that time in September. . . .

I must have blinked.
The calendar is now showing October.

Scientists Ponder Zombie Attack

2009-08-18T17:58:59Z

From the BBC news:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8206280.stm

Calgary bound

2009-08-02T11:47:20Z

There is an eighty percent probability that I will be in Calgary for Conversion this year.

Ambushed

2009-06-29T04:54:07Z

Chapters, buy 3 get 1 free.
My poor bank account.

Cataloging books

2009-06-27T20:28:02Z

Two thousand, six hundred and sixty eight ISBNs either typed or scanned.
Using the Readerware program, I know have more than 2600 paperback novels in my database.

Now to figure out how to load them into an Ipod Touch. (files lite seems to be doing the trick).

Next, the hardcovers.

Reading

2009-06-10T21:40:36Z

Novels I started reading since May 28
Thu: Twilight by Stephenie Meyer
Fri: Sat: The Devil's Due by Jenna Black
Sun: The Lost Fleet: Relentless by Jack Campbell
Mon: New Moon by Stephenie Meyer
Tue: Grave Sins by Jenna Maclaine
Wed: Eclipse by Stephanie Meyer
Fri: Breaking Dawn by Stephanie Meyer
Sat: Second Skin by Caitlin Kittredge
Sun: Republic Commando: Hard Contact by Karen Traviss
Tue: Host by Stephanie Meyer

Levitating spider

2009-05-13T23:36:34Z

Last week as I was walking I noticed a spider hanging motionless in midair about chest level. Normally I would suspect it was hanging on a thread of spider silk. However, I encountered this situation in the middle of a parking lot with nothing but sky overhead. I walked around it, and it was just hanging there. I passed my hand half a metre above it and it slowly floated in the direction of my hand. It seemed to wake up and rappelled down to the ground.

I think this mode of travel is called ballooning. The spider spins a long thread into the air and eventually gets carried away on the wind. Except when the wind keeps it one place, I guess.

Moving floors

2009-04-20T00:16:57Z

I found my kitchen floor.

However, I seem to have lost my living room floor.

Daylight

2009-03-13T17:32:55Z

I arrive at work at 09:00 today, plenty of time to get ready for a 10:00 meeting. A few minutes later I get a call wondering where I was since the meeting had started. Oh well, thinks I, somebody seems to have gotten the meeting time wrong or they forgot to tell me that they had changed when we were to meet.

I find out at the meeting that everyone else believed that it was past ten while my watch was showing just past nine. Jokes were made about me being on B.C. time. After the meeting a thought occurred to me that there was one possibility about why my watch was behind an hour. After making inquiries, I determined that yes, the shift to daylight savings time had occurred last weekend.

Happy Friday the Thirteenth!

Metacarpalphalangeal joint

2009-03-12T19:17:04Z

People with arthritis often have a swell time.

Land of warm ladies

2009-02-02T01:00:35Z

I received an email from a friend in Australia. She was mentioning things like 45.2 degrees celsius. I almost put a minus sign in front of that number (actually, I did put a minus sign there and had to go back and erase it). So I told her about waking up to minus 36 last Monday and getting up to plus 2 the next day.

45.2 degrees, eh? I guess those Australians like their women hot!

By the way: Happy New Year, Everybody!

All adults can add one to their age as of January 1. And I congratulate all my readers on another successful trip around the sun.

Square tires

2008-12-15T20:28:52Z

Minus thirty six Celcius this morning, and the Fit started with only minor grumpiness. The first few minutes of driving went bumpity-bump as the tires were still frozen in the parked position.

Aiding entropy

2008-11-27T05:22:54Z

Started tidying and gathering the loose Lego together in order to begin the sorting process. Only a few dozen kilograms to process. . . .

Annoying how the tidying process makes it more difficult to move around the place.

Ford Fit

2008-11-07T13:33:29Z

I am now the owner of a Ford Fit. It is very much like the Honda Fit, except that I could have it in any colour I wanted. As long as it was black. Thus ends over a month of being without wheels.

It was the subconscious, I tell you

2008-10-31T22:31:31Z

After awakening from sleeping the sleep of the innocent this morning, I glanced into the hallway mirror. I was wearing black sweat pants and a bright orange sweatshirt. I then remembered that today is Hallow'een.

I wonder if it's because I turn into a pumpkin at midnight.

Carless behaviour

2008-10-25T01:38:29Z

Still without a car.
Has anyone noticed that the world economy has been misbehaving ever since I lost my wheels?
Just wondering.

It's all about meme

2008-10-15T15:32:27Z

Your results:
You are Derrial Book (Shepherd)

Derrial Book (Shepherd)		75%
Dr. Simon Tam (Ship Medic)		65%
Kaylee Frye (Ship Mechanic)		55%
Zoe Washburne (Second-in-command)		50%
River (Stowaway)		50%
Alliance		50%
Malcolm Reynolds (Captain)		45%
Jayne Cobb (Mercenary)		45%
A Reaver (Cannibal)		40%
Wash (Ship Pilot)		30%
Inara Serra (Companion)		30%

Even though you are holy
you have a mysterious past.

Click here to take the "Which Serenity character are you?" quiz...

Shocked?

2008-09-20T19:27:04Z

Occasional clunks have been occurring in my 1998 Chevrolet Malibu. The first couple of times I checked, I did not spot the problem. Turning into my driveway, another sound was heard. Upon inspection, I found that there is some sort of helical contraption that is now touching the right tire. I am thinking that I broke a coil spring on my car's shock absorber. First the legs, then the wheels. I am starting to sense a conspiracy.

Crutches? What Crutches?

2008-09-19T19:50:57Z

So I wake up way too early this morning. Both knees having decided to have a swell time. No crawling for me, not being a fan of pain. So I proceeded from my bedroom downstairs to the kitchen upstairs on my back, dragging the legs behind me. Found drugs, found couch, and somehow managed to eventually fall to sleep. Woke up around eleven to find the swelling had gone down a bit. Found the crutches, which were downstairs in the storage bedroom, and regained mobility since the right leg can now support my weight.

Oh, I was suppose to be at work since there is a big event where the University recognizes employees with five, ten, fifteen, twenty and twenty-five years of service. Me, I should have been there with the ten year group. And I am missing out on the free food, dang nab it!

You know, it is much more convenient when only one knee is swollen. Like my left knee for the last seven days or so. Although the resulting cramps in the corresponding thigh, butt and back muscles are rather distracting.

Enough of that. Time to find more ibuprofen and have myself a nice mug of tea.

Machine reproduction

2008-09-04T00:04:22Z

They fixed the Von Neumann machine.

Now it no longer reproduces.

Did you

2008-08-28T22:35:38Z

Have you heard about the military cook who refused to prepare regular meals and spent his time making pastries, pies and cakes instead?

Splurge is over.

2008-08-25T20:21:47Z

On June 26 I started down the path of copious spending.
On August 14 I won my last auction.

During that time I bid on 790 auctions, of which I won 210.

About sixty five hundred dollars of Lego and a thousand on other toys.

I am glad that that is now over with.

Back in the middle of the province.

2008-08-24T01:41:09Z

Once again I find myself North of Edmontown and pretty darn close to the geographical middle of Alberta.

Red lights

2008-08-18T01:28:49Z

My sister said to me that she just had a sign that she was reading too much. When I asked what, she pointed to a bright ruby dot and said something about laser sights. One glimpse and I immediately looked for the source, in order to know which way to duck, dontyaknow. Sunlight had found a pinhole in the aluminum foil taped to the window, snuck through the dimmed hallway and found a very red purse on the steps. Too much imagination? Nah, couldn't be.

To the motorbikers and everyone else on the roads this summer: May your journeys be safe and enjoyable.