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I think I've got a grand total of 110 pm's in my inbox right now that I haven't deleted (though I have read them all), I've probably gotten a grand total of less than 250 since the system was put in place.

So... for those of you who have been watching the weather as of late, you'll probably be acutely aware of the fact that "the southeast" (i.e.; southern United States) has been subject to a heatwave as of late. Temperatures of 102 degrees fahrenheight have not been unusual as of late, but what is unusual is the fact that we haven't had a good solid rain now for about 3 months. Last time I checked, we're at around 13 to 14 inches below the normal rain average for this time of the year.

And as such, my hometown this past week issued a water use restriction notice for the city of Portland, Tennessee. As the document spells out, you cannot under any circumstances dicker around with the hosepipe willy nilly or the Water Gestapo will show up and cuss you out (yet they left out the part about how the Highschool Cheerleading Team is still allowed to do carwash fundraisers, but that's a different story).

So yesterday after work, I went up to Franklin, Kentucky, just across the TN/KY border and filled up with gas (because it was about 10 cents cheaper than in Portland), then asked the gas station attendent where there was a good car wash. He directed me to go up the road about a half mile, and there was one on the right... a nice manual car wash, with no restrictions on water. YAY!!!! I went all out to, it sparkled like brand new when I was done... I even cleaned out and vaccumed the interior, 'cause I'm a big spender like that.

And then today, just as I was sitting down to lunch, I heard it.... thunder. I looked out, and it was raining.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!
!!!!!!!!

Yeah-- that happened to me too, years ago... I still remember because it makes me mad. My father's family was coming and he wanted the car "nice" which translates that... I have to clean it inside and out. I told him that it's going to rain. So, after doing a great job in the inside of the car and washed the outside...

It started to rain.

I haven't let my dad live it down. He knows how much I hate to wash and vacuum a car. We totally go at it during December, Feburary, and Januarary... The "wet months" in San Jose. He now knows that I will absolutely not wash a car during those times because... what's the purpose? It's gonna get wet and muddy again!

This year I didn't see him wash the car during the raining season... so, I think he knows how I feel about washing a car when rain is looming ahead.

At 8/19/07 05:13 PM, fli wrote: car stuff

Honestly, I don't wash my car. It rains a lot here, the car's old and cruddy-looking anyway, and it's just not worth it. Although, if it snows and it gets a lot of salt and sand on it, I will go in for a wash to keep it from corroding.

Okay, something else. A bunch of "eco-aware" people in Switzerland got together and laid naked on a glacier in order to raise awareness of global warming.

Doesn't it seem like the body heat of nearly 600 people lying on the glacier would make it melt faster?

I don't wash my car but once every few months or so.... typically birdshit is more of an issue to me than dust and dirt, but I can usually just take a hose and wash that off (well, not here lately). My car was NASTY yesterday, which is not a good state for being such a nice car (89 Cadillac DeVille).

The thing that really irritated me was that I bought one of those automotive touch-pens to spot paint a few missing paint chips on the hood of my car, and kept it in my glovebox until such a time as I could get the car clean enough to use said pen. After I washed and vacuumed my car yesterday, I was going to do the touchups when I noticed... it was the wrong shade of blue.

BACK TO THE PARTS HOUSE I WENT... come to find out, there's actually a numerical code printed on the car's info tag (where the spare is kept) that indicates the manufacturer's paint code, and can be used to match color in the future. The parts house did not have a touchup pen for my car. In fact, stock colors for cars more than 15 years old are not kept at Advanced Auto Parts*, and I'm going to have to go to a Napa Auto Parts Store** to get them to better match up the color.

* shameless slam.
** shameless plug.

psst

At 8/19/07 03:39 PM, Proteas wrote: And then today, just as I was sitting down to lunch, I heard it.... thunder. I looked out, and it was raining.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCCCCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKK!!!
!!!!!!!!

I could tell this was going to long hot summer, but I didn't expect it to be this hot. Just 90 miles from here, in Athens, they had 11 out of 13 days with 100 degree heat or more, and two days where it got up to 105. Of course, Atlanta is at a deceivingly high altitude, sitting atop the Eastern Continental Divide, so it helps moderate our temperatures a small bit.

It makes it very difficult for someone like me to sleep during the day with just a huge box fan; I wake up sweating. Whenever lying motionless is enough exertion to make you sweat; you know it's hot.

They've had watering restrictions here for years. They even had them in effect during 2005, when there was flooding and plenty of rain from all those hurricanes.

As a result, I've still got a little bit of mud on my car from my little off-road excursion into Deliverance country.

http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=35.01 5939,-83.121872&spn=0.024322,0.032959&t=
h&z=15&om=1

I was driving up in the mountains of NC a couple months back, and traffic on US 64 was incredibly bad, and of course, it was raining (always does whenever I go somewhere). So, I decided to bypass the route and took what I thought to be a nice little backroad over to Highlands.

Heh.

The first few miles were all right, nice paved 2 lane country blacktop, then OMG GRAVEL?!?

Let me tell you, driving down a narrow switchbacked gravel road in a pouring rain isn't exactly the place you want to be with a Hyundai Elantra.

After crossing the Chattooga River on a bridge that looked like it could fall down any minute, and a few more miles of winding gravel road, finally got back to pavement and civilization.

At 8/19/07 05:37 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: Okay, something else. A bunch of "eco-aware" people in Switzerland got together and laid naked on a glacier in order to raise awareness of global warming.

Doesn't it seem like the body heat of nearly 600 people lying on the glacier would make it melt faster?

I admire any form of activism not clearly designed to get you in the pants of women who actually beleive it. If you're laying your bits on ice you mean it.

At 8/19/07 05:37 PM, SkunkyFluffy wrote: Doesn't it seem like the body heat of nearly 600 people lying on the glacier would make it melt faster?

Yes. Yes it does.

But also penis. You can't forget that.
;

Are they at least laying on tarps or something? Direct contact with ice could cause a lot of tissue damage. Think tounge stuck to the flagpole only more hilarous.

I swear to god, whoever picks out the books to read for summer reading in AP English must be a fucking sadist.

"Hmm, what books can we find that these kids will hate and will possibly allienate them from reading in the future. Ah yes, these books must also fill out for the correct PC reading selections. Hmm, lets see what do we have here, ah yes Cry, the beloved country. Lets read the summary. Hmm it seems to be a book about the evils of white people and how black people overcame oppression and subgegation. Perfect, it's not like they haven't read these books yet."

Seriously, I'm don't know why I wasted my time on this class. Thank god for sparknotes.

At 8/19/07 11:09 AM, reviewer-general wrote:

At 8/19/07 07:48 AM, D2Kvirus wrote:

At 8/19/07 12:50 AM, tony4moroney wrote:

At 8/18/07 11:26 PM, Der-Lowe wrote: Talking about spam:
W00t 1K!!!! :D
</stat post>

lol ive only got 29 messages, most of which is hate mail.

I've only got 9. Yeesh, single figures?!?

I have none, since I delete all mine. There's no point in keeping them.

;

I use them (and text messages too, I had to delete them all when I got my new cellphone :'( ) like a Pensieve.
I wish I had a real one :(
But I think I'd get even more addicted to the past that I am now.

At 8/19/07 09:50 PM, SevenSeize wrote: My cell phone only holds like 30 messages, then it gets annoying.... starts beeping and whining and complaining that the memotry is full, and it wants to cuddle.

Well....

It does have a vibrate mode.

At 8/19/07 09:50 PM, SevenSeize wrote: My cell phone only holds like 30 messages, then it gets annoying.... starts beeping and whining and complaining that the memotry is full, and it wants to cuddle.

Mine holds 50 and starts whining when I get to 80% Like I have to send a messege and then race to delete everything before I get the next one back. I'm like a spy.

At 8/19/07 09:56 PM, SevenSeize wrote:

At 8/19/07 09:51 PM, MortifiedPenguins wrote: Well....

It does have a vibrate mode.

lol

You know anyone who uses theirs like that?

Clearly you haven't been watching porn recently.

At 8/19/07 09:56 PM, SevenSeize wrote:

At 8/19/07 09:52 PM, stafffighter wrote: Mine holds 50 and starts whining when I get to 80% Like I have to send a messege and then race to delete everything before I get the next one back. I'm like a spy.

It only counts if you wear a fedora and shades.....

You know I have both. Should I go with the aviators, the blue aviators or the smaller ones that make my face look fat if my beard isn't trimmed?

At 8/19/07 09:56 PM, SevenSeize wrote: You know anyone who uses theirs like that?

I did once drop mine in my lap to make a turn while driving, only to receive a text message that scared the shit out of me. Not really very pleasurable, but meh, different strokes.

What I learned today: fedora is not only a Linux distribution.

The cellphone I had previous to this one had like 300 messages, I once read them, and they were from a couple of years ago. And some of them were "Call me". Ah, when I had to buy cards to talk...
Progress is good. Now I have the cheapo version of the K1 !!! :D

At 8/19/07 10:10 PM, SevenSeize wrote: I learned that falling asleep while baking cookies isnt a good thing.

Oh no!! Did you burn them?!?

Argentinian, I ask you again: What the hell is going on with Dabte Spinetta? I mean like really.

At 8/20/07 12:36 AM, Empanado wrote: Argentinian, I ask you again: What the hell is going on with Dabte Spinetta? I mean like really.

Er. Dante.
The guy from IKV who had a famous dad and now sings reggaetón or some shit.

At 8/20/07 12:36 AM, Empanado wrote: Argentinian, I ask you again: What the hell is going on with Dabte Spinetta? I mean like really.

According to wikipedia, he sang with Julieta Venegas (yo te quiero con limón y sal, etc, and Videoclip in the República de los niños), and is going to make an album called "Black out".

Fuck wikipedia, you're Argentinian. And it's common knowledge that, just like black people, all Argentinians know each other regardless of where they live or who they are.

At 8/20/07 12:47 AM, Empanado wrote: Fuck wikipedia, you're Argentinian. And it's common knowledge that, just like black people, all Argentinians know each other regardless of where they live or who they are.

GaiusIuliusTaberna is your alt, isn't he?

No, but he's probably Imperator's. They're both into greeks or romans or jew or some shit like that.

Why you ask?

At 8/20/07 12:53 AM, Empanado wrote: No, but he's probably Imperator's. They're both into greeks or romans or jew or some shit like that.

Why you ask?

Because according to him, I'm Black, Asian, Purple, Martian...
I remember asking my Culture teacher what were the origins of the Spanish, and her reply was "ugh."
Well, at least I get Euros AND nice weather.

Spaniards are the offspring of Arabs and euro-rednecks, just in case you've still got the doubt.

At 8/19/07 10:16 AM, SevenSeize wrote: ditto. You COULD tell avie..... but if you tell ME, I'LL give you candy.

This is a direct challenge to my authority, this will not go unanswered, I shall petition Wade to allow me to declare mod war...I may even put the FTW title on the line for this one. That's how strongly I feel.

At 8/20/07 01:16 AM, Empanado wrote: Spaniards are the offspring of Arabs and euro-rednecks, just in case you've still got the doubt.

Euro-rednecks? And they are????

Man... I wish I could get a genetic test and see where my DNA may had originally started. I know that my grandmother's grandparent was a Muslim. Other than that... I don't know nothing else.

I've toyed with the idea of submitting a DNA sample to a website that could give you a complete report on your "Adam and Eve." (See links...)

Mitochondrial Eve
Y chromosomalAdam

There are labs that will charge you 150 to 300 bucks to do that service... it would be cool, but no novelty is worth 300 bucks for me...

At 8/20/07 01:29 AM, fli wrote:

At 8/20/07 01:16 AM, Empanado wrote: Spaniards are the offspring of Arabs and euro-rednecks, just in case you've still got the doubt.

Euro-rednecks?

Yes! Still to this day, many Spaniards are euro-rednecks. Example.