Author Archives: mstroud

Cars and High Temps

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Cars suck. They eat more money than they should and require way too much attention. And when you think everything is going to finally stop costing you money, something else comes up and costs far more than you think it should. Maybe I should start walking or riding bikes everywhere? Nah.

It’s been over 95+ the last few days here and that is just miserable. I’m waiting for people to burst into flames but it just isn’t happening. People are getting crazy though, talking about staying indoors with the A/C on all the time and eating ice cream. It’s mass hysteria. Good thing I’ll be on airplanes to combat all of this lunacy for the next week or so.

Newsletter and Pix up

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I finally found some time and got the newsletter done. It’s out the door as of today. Ditto for the picture gallery, which can be found here until I find a better way to handle it.

PHP is oh so much fun!

Neglect

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It’s been a while since I’ve done anything on the site. Work is keeping me real busy. I’ll see what I can do to put up some new content soon.

Home again

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I’m back and I’m quite out of it. Traveling where you don’t know the language is very difficult. Missing a connecting flight is even worse. Getting home and finding out you have no car is the worst of all. Is this making any sense?

Wreck recovery and travel

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Turned in the Jeep today to the body shop, but not before waiting almost an hour for the shop owner who never showed up. I then proceeded to the rent-a-car place where I got the keys to a shiny new POS Stratus. This thing just doesn’t go, and calling the handling vague would be an understatement.

I’m off on another week long business trip. Maybe I’ll find something less collision happy to do this week. In the meantime it’s Au revoir USA.

Bad drivers

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I got rear ended tonight near highway 85 and 101. I was just stopping for some traffic ahead and the next thing I know… wham! My rear bumper is rather broken and the other guy has no more front end or radiator. The thing is, this car is nearly out of here, with the lease due in two months. What a crappy thing to deal with this late.

And the kicker is that the guy (Indian) only said “I’m sorry.” Like that’s supposed to pay for the bumper. Damn California drivers!

Back, sort of

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I’m back from the Asia trip, work related, of course. Soon I’m off to visit the Redmond boys, so another trip is ahead. For a new job, there sure is little time to get work done with all of this travelling. Goofy.

Back and forth

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Well, I made it back from vacation and it ended up alright. Next steps are to write it all up, send the pictures out for development (darn film) and post it all up here. Maybe it will get done shortly, we’ll see.

New job started today and requires me to fly out of here (and out of the US) starting on Saturday for a week. Gotta love that travel stuff. Frequent flyer miles, here I come!

Vacations that suck

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Just my luck. I plan a vacation and the weather is so bad it delays me getting here, then makes it not possible to do what I came to do: dive. At least the people are nice and the drinks are cold.

Now whatever will I do with the rest of the week?