Scouting

04.16.2004

I was a Cub Scout when I was young. All I remember is trying to whistle while eating a pack full of Saltines and poorly constructing a pinewood derby car. I never pursued scouting further than that one year.

In one of those tangents that only comes about at work, we started to try and remember the motto (creed?): Scout Law - "A Scout is: trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.".

Let me see...

• Trustworthy - I'm sometimes trustworthy, depending on how well you know me.
• Loyal - 6 jobs in 8 years. Guess I can mark that one off.
• Helpful - Nyah.
• Friendly - Does a smile when passing in the hallway count?
• Courteous - I do tend to hold the door open for others.
• Kind - I don't slam the door into people as I hold the door for them.
• Obedient - Heh. heh heh. Hyah heh heh heee heh he he heh. Oh sorry. That was a good one.
• Cheerful - If anything, I'm too damn cheerful.
• Thrifty - I've spent $14K in the past 6 weeks on house renovations & refinancing. Dammit!
• Bra.....

Might as well stop now. I'm no boy scout. But at least I can be cheerful about it!

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Taxes

04.15.2004

It is tax day once again. Luckily, I mailed everything off Monday. But I mailed everything to Atlanta, and I thought I usually mail everything to Memphis. I just do what TurboTax tells me to do.

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Stupid Webpage Additions

04.14.2004

I was a little bored the other day and needed a stupid mental excercise. Nothing too hard, just something to occupy my mind for a half hour or so. I was surfing and noticed that this particular page had the local temperature provided by the weather channel. Well that's kind of neat.

I thought that would be a neat thing to have, but without all the gaudy Weather Channel advertisements. I'm sure there are plenty of services that give you the local weather in a format you can just plainly display, ut this looked like that good mental excercise I was looking for.

After signing up for a Weather Channel account, they gave me the link I needed to show my local weather. It links back to a script at the Weather Channel tha then serves their appropriate information and graphics. Looking at what their server was spitting out, it bacame rather simple to parse their output until the all important temperature was found. So for now, I'm listing the temperaturein a couple of places up at the top of the page. Here, The RV Park Mom stays at, Dr. Blondie's new home, etc. I don't know how long I'll keep it all up there (since this was just a little mental excercise, after all), but for now I think I'll leave it.

Oooh! 50° and fair right now.

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Camtoon Tuesday: The Return

04.13.2004

After my spurt of new camtoons last week, a follow-up toon has clawed its wat onto the internet.

I forgot to mention it, but I managed to get my riding mower back on Saturday. Of course, we've had nothing but constant rain ever since, so I don't really know if it's 100% fixed or not. once the rain stops, the mower will get a good christening, because the yard is a good 2 weeks past really needing to be mowed.

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Mail Day

04.12.2004

Today was the time for me to mail off a big, huge stack of stuff:

• Federal Taxes
• State Taxes
• Phone Bill
• Long Distance Bill
• New Refrigerator Warranty Card
• Bed Bath & Beyond Rebate Form (for my new skillet!)
• Credit Card Bills (including the massive Prince Concert Ticket Buyout I attempted from Ticketmaster)
• Utility Bill

I hate mailing off bills. Not because of the sudden drop in my bank account, I just tend to put off taking the time to get everything together, write the checks, stuff the envelopes, hunt down stamps, etc.

As a tangent, but still mail associated, I got a query from "Shaninio 2k4" asking about the wrestling game. More than anything, it made me relize how the game has been put on the backburner lately as I try to finish up the shopping cart addition to the BioVentures website. But I do need to hurry up and get back to making the game. I've been working through some of the DarkBasic tutorials, but I still haven't made enough progress to do the things I want to do for the game yet. But that's how the learning process is supposed to work.

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