Out of The PIT

AI sent me links about the Windows 8 Customer Preview and the release of the Raspberry Pi which went on sale today, and promptly sold out .

I got quite a number of calls today about my car and the accident. It seems like my car is nearly fixed, so I should be able to pick it up either today or tomorrow, although I still have not gotten any confirmation call from the auto shop so I have no idea what the ETA is.. (I still have to return the rental car by tomorrow though.)

I was in a car accident yesterday. So sad. Everyone is okay though.

MJNL had been complaining for years about my mattress. She was saying how uncomfortable it was, and that she was getting a sore back every time she slept on it. I personally never had a problem with my mattress. In fact, it was quite a step up from the quarter century old twin mattress that I had when I first moved into the condo! But she did have a point, the mattress was getting old (I bought it used and I already had it for over five years) and you are supposed to replace your mattress every decade or so. We wanted to get a king sized mattress, but it would have taken some time to make the space necessary to make it fit in our bedroom. (It would fit though.) Well, HakkaKa and AL had bought a new bed when they moved into their new house, but kept their old queen sized mattress in one of the spare rooms. A week ago MJNL asked if we could exchange mattresses, since their old bed was not being used very often. They had agreed to the switch to which MJNL was ecstatic about. In addit

I planned MJNL's birthday weekend over a couple of weeks. I was talking with GY about high/afternoon tea, and he mentioned how the Windsor Arms Hotel was having a deal on afternoon tea, and that his mom thought that it was best afternoon tea in town . I figured that it would be good to setup for MJNL and I, as well as for my parental units. It was my mom's birthday as well, and since they had never had afternoon tea before, I figured that it would be a good experience for them. To top it off, I found out that there was a spa at the Windsor Arms Hotel and I was able to find some vouchers at SpaAndTravel.Com . In addition, a few weeks ago we watched Mission Impossible: Ghost Protocol with EG and Growly, and we got to talking about out dog sledding. MJNL was interested in trying it, so we had talked about doing it together at some point in time. MJNL and I also had talks about trying out snowmobiling quite some time ago, so I did some research and discovered that there was a p

I recall writing about an Indian Head penny that I found a couple of years ago. I had given it to Mortis to clean, and he promptly lost it. Well, this morning he handed over a cleaned penny. He had found my penny! This time I took some pictures before I forget. I found out later that cleaning pennies (and other collectable coins) can reduce the value of the coin quite sharply. Well, the value of this particular penny that had gone through circulation was $2.90, so it is probably not worth very much at this point. But it is still the oldest coin that I have ever found, so I am still keeping it!

I went to hockey last night after a two month sabbatical, and I lasted about fifteen minutes before I started to feel like getting off the bench was going to be too difficult. Gosh am I so out of shape!

MJNL and I have been spending all day cleaning up the apartment. We have been planning on doing this since we came back from our honeymoon. In fact, we have been planning on cleaning our place up since all of this wedding stuff started piling up in our apartment. Now that we are done with all of the wedding events, we have been able to move everything out, and to finish writing our thank you cards (I hope we did not miss anybody) and we can go back to living our normal lives! But yes, back to cleaning. One of the many things I had on my to do list was to go through a pile of floppy disks I had lying around, but the task was difficult because I did not have a computer with a floppy drive. Well, I lied. I did have one, but it was running Ubuntu, and it was a pain in the butt to go through the disks. I wanted a windows machine so I can scan them quickly and move things off if I wanted a copy. Unfortunately, my server died eight months ago, and left me with no machine with a floppy drive