matt | August 31, 2007
Here's a pseudo-meme for everyone.. What are your plans for the long weekend? Mine are: – sand the old paint off the porch railings, then paint said railings. – pull the carburetor off the tiller (again) and see if I can stop it from leaking by replacing the seat for the needle – see if [...]
matt | August 30, 2007
(Previous post was here) So, I heard back from the dealership, and the service manager said that the guy who said that 505.00 spec oil was used is neither the parts guy nor an actual tech. When he (the manager) went to the parts guy and said “I need oil to do a change on [...]
matt | August 29, 2007
So, to recap: Car goes in for oil change and 40k service @ 39,00 miles (oil has been changed every 5,000 miles, except once where I went 7,000 because I was busy. Recommended change interval is 10,000 miles). @ 40,000 miles, I start noticing a ticking noise. I try various things (fixing some screws which [...]
matt | August 29, 2007
As some of you may know, I am in Kyle Cassidy's () book Armed America: Portraits of Gun Owners in Their Homes (page 134). Since it was new to the market, and I'm in it, I've avoided commenting on it until recently. Since Mark Vanderberg over at the Gun Rights Advocates Podcast asked me to [...]
matt | August 28, 2007
Liz and I have started cooking together, embracing cohabitation in the kitchen made possible by division of labor. Sunday, we made venison enchiladas (I browned the meat, rolled them up and put them in the pan; she made the sauce), and yesterday we made pasta and sauce (she made the fresh pasta, I made the [...]
matt | August 21, 2007
Writing my own game based off the d20 Modern SRD is annoying me. The parts I don't like are the ones that everything seems to tie to. So, lets think about this from a different angle – I like Shadowrun 4th edition. It's gritty, realistic, and bloody. The game mechanics are not quite as simple [...]
matt | August 19, 2007
So, my father in law's corn is starting to come in, so we're picking it, taking it off the cob, bagging it, and freezing it. Now, growing up, we did this with a knife, sitting around the table. However, there is a better way – enter the Kernel Kutter. I'll have to get one for [...]
matt | August 19, 2007
So, I'm kind of unimpressed by the Deepest Sender widget and am back to using the LJ web interface, which is fine, especially since FF now has spellcheck. Anyway, we've been reasonably productive. We should be getting new potatoes soon, the peppers are coming in nicely, and I got a recipe for roasted pumpkin seeds [...]
matt | August 10, 2007
(This is partially a test of Deepest Sender, an LJ app which runs as a FF widget. I am not tremendously impressed – it gets clobbered if you use it in the sidebar and then open your history, which was the compelling thing about it…) Anyway… Video games: I started playing Baldur's Gate 2: Shadows [...]
matt | August 8, 2007
(In case you don't get the reference, it's an old sea shanty. To hear it performed, try this version courtesy of the good lads over at the Dragon's Landing Inn Podcast). So… Grabbed some pickling cukes from the garden and found that the leftover brine wasn't working anymore. It seems that you can reuse it [...]
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