Today we finally got around to finding the grand-daddy of all Australian product shops, Simply Australian.
Although we had some problems finding the place we eventually got there after zooming around the Rainier countryside! Better yet when we told Jan at Simply Australian that we had trouble with the directions we found via the web site, she got straight onto Bruce and we replicated the problem. Needless to say these great Aussies are going to fix the problem ASAP!
However I digress! The main reason for the trip was some Vita Brits of which I purchased a couple of boxes. However I also purchased Smarties, Violet Crumbles, Coffee, Mars Bars, Vegemite, Columbines, Mint Slices, Flags, Melbourne Number Plate (for Miata Club Parades) and Cordial.
So now I have my little supply of Aussie food. Definitely worth a trip out to Rainier if your in the area.
Today was a glorious day here in Seattle. A great day to start off with a cooked breakfast, follow up with some shopping, go on to a lovely Thai Restaurant, wash the marvelous Miata, and then round off the day by polishing off the Thai leftovers!
I bought one of those dent pullers to try out on the Miata's small dents. I shall report on how that goes.
More importantly I was finally able to find a Pop Sensation Barbie to send to Hayden. I promised her one ages ago yet have not been able to find one anywhere. At this point I believe I shall keep it for the Christmas package I am accumulating for her.
All up it has been a nice relaxing day!
Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence.
Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night.
If any one faculty of our nature may be called more wonderful than the rest, I do think it is memory. There seems something more speakingly incomprehensible in the powers, the failures, the inequalities of memory, than in any other of our intelligences. The memory is sometimes so retentive, so serviceable, so obedient; at others, so bewildered and so weak; and at others again, so tyrannic, so beyond control! We are, to be sure, a miracle every way; but our powers of recollecting and of forgetting do seem peculiarly past finding out.
The Barenaked Ladies new album (released yesterday), Everything to Everyone has been in my hands for one afternoon.
I bought it. I put it in the car CD. I worked on my car and listened. I drove my car and listened again. I sat and I listened.
The title is fitting. I haven't read what they were trying to do with this album but it seems they are making fun of a lot of different pop styles. As always the songs are fun and whimsical.
It is well worth adding to your collection. Oh and yes I am biased.
Well it falls everywhere! Record rainfalls yesterday! Glad i held onto the SUV as if I had been in the Miata yesterday I would have been swimming or stuck here.
The SUV ploughed its way through spots that had over a foot of water over the road.
Rivers are flooded, roads are washed out, the news teams are all over it.
As long as my bed stays dry, warm and comfortable I will be happy!
Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.
I like to cook. Recently I have added a number of Indian dishes to my rapture.
Tonight I went one step further and made pappadums. They are amazing to make! I bought ten in a box for US$1.86 and then after testing the frying oil realized I would only need to make two!
You drop them in the oil and they quickly shrink and then instantly explode ten times bigger!
It is amazing! It is fun! Try it yourself!
Follow the grain in your own wood.
Ok now I am really confused.
Nathan Allan has a glass studio run by Barry Allan.
Being Nathan Allan this is news to me. However I can comprehend that another Nathan Allan owns this. However there is no picture of Nathan Allan (the glass dude) at all.
So would the real Nathan Allan behind this site please come forward?
Yeah baby my glorious life of fame rocks on!
From Australian nobody to top selling recording artist.
Ain't life grand?
Filthy rich and having all these groupie chickibabes after me.
Oh hang on!
Oh I am sorry that is the other Nathan Allan.
What on earth is happening to me?
I found myself talking with a friend about baseball the other day, namely the chances of the cubs getting into the World Series.
Now I find myself watching the World Series!
Too add to my American ways, I am even interested to see how the top of division Seattle Seahawks are doing in the NFL.
Results! Why, man, I have gotten a lot of results. I know several thousand things that won't work.
As I mentioned a couple of weeks ago I purchased some gadgets from Cyberguys. Well they arrived a week ago and I found them to be very impressive!
Of course the cool gadget was the USB powered massager. I thought this may be a piece of junk but it is great! It vibrates and massages really well and the USB cable is long enough to reach all of those sore and tired joints!
Then my more practical purchase was a pair of removable hard-drive bays. After easily installing these units, the drive I installed in them became my portable data drive. Very, very handy! I now use this and keep my portable firewire drive for secondary backup purposes.
I throughly recommend both products!
When anger rises, think of the consequences.
I am passing this on to you because it has definitely worked for me.
By following the simple advice I read in an article, I have finally found inner peace. It reads:
"The way to achieve inner peace is to finish all the things you've started." I looked around to see all the things I started and hadn't finished.
So today, I have finished one bottle of white wine, a bottle of red wine, a bottle of Drambuie, my Prozac, a large box of chocolate and a quart of beer.
You have no idea how good I feel.
You may pass this on to those you feel are in need of Inner Peace.
Have a marvelous day.
(My friend John Young passed this on to me)
You can't have rosy thoughts about the future if your mind is full of blues about the past.
I was starting to wonder if Seattle really is as rainy as people say. Well it is. At least this week. It is sort of nice except when your driving.
Time for the hardtop to go on the Miata!
When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece.
"Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed."
US President Dwight D. Eisenhower
April 16, 1953
Intimate relationships cannot substitute for a life plan. But to have any meaning or viability at all, a life plan must include intimate relationships.
Just as you began to feel that you could make good use of time, there was no time left to you.
I am pleased to say I got my webcam functioning again. After I rebuilt the computer I set it back up. Until I get my TV tuner card working again I am sticking with ConquerCam.
So I am off the opinion that Cable just may suck. Their customer support does at least. Let me explain.
I had digital cable put on at my place (so I could get the Aussie Rules Football).
My first experience with Customer Support (CS) was when the channels I should have got didn't come up. They could not fix it over the phone so they booked a call out. The guy who came out had one look at it, called customer support and had it fixed. He said the phone CS should have been able to fix it as all he did was talk to CS and get them to reset something.
The second experience was calling to get a new remote as the one I have is faulty (checked the batteries and all that sort of stuff). Now remember I pay 30 cents a month to rent this thing. I was informed I would have to pay for a new remote. About $7.15. Where is the logic in having to pay for something that is faulty that I already lease? so I asked to have a supervisor call me back.
Experience three with CS was with a very nice woman who knew what she was on about. I had called because I never received the call from the supervisor I was promised. This woman was great explained that she was the person on CS with the most experience and that everyone else was new and simply read the scripts.
So I am left with a dilemma. Do I cancel the cable and get satellite? It appears I would get a heap more channels for less overall cost. Are there hidden costs? Looks like I will need to do some research.
Let me know what your experience with Cable and Satellite have been like!
The highest proof of virtue is to possess boundless power without abusing it.
The good or ill of a man lies within his own will.
You're not to be so blind with patriotism that you can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who does it or says it.
Certain people have voiced that some of my opinions are a little disturbing to them. For example some person doesn't think that my gardening opinions are valid. :)
Remember folks that half of what I say in the personal posts is in jest. Also note that my opinion can be purchased or bought, normally with Arnott's Biscuits in particular Tiny Teddies (no Teddy Grahams are not the same), Tim Tams and Mint Slices.
Ok so the point of this post is to get yummy biscuits.
Well as I mentioned earlier this week my computer decided to die. Not completely, just an unexplained mess-up that needed to be remedied ASAP.
So I rebuilt Black Beauty and now it is working fine. I am even now using the concept of a data drive, coupled with a firewire portable drive for backup. Believe me after this little song and dance I want to make sure my data is well backed up.
I didn't loose anything in particular but I did find that my email list for the newsletter is backed up in a format I am not quite sure on how to bring back to life. I have Eric on call to help me with that, and we are going to call Brett the developer of Newsletter Ease for some assistance (well really just to bother him).
Things are looking good! I have put an order in with Cyberguys for a couple of cool things, first a massage ball that works of a USB connection and then some removable hard drive racks for letting me move my data drive between computers and locations easily.
Boy I love gadgets!
Call on God, but row away from the rocks.
If you don't run your own life, somebody else will.
The most wasted day of all is that during which we have not laughed.