Out of The PIT

My phone is dying. I need to get a new one soon. But I digress. I just watched an ASAP Science video talking about what would happen if the sun had disappeared. I've been trying to work on a book for the past few years detailing what is needed for humanity to survive if we started wandering the galaxy without our sun but really have not had much time to spend on it. I should probably throw out some of my ideas out to see how good they might work. I want to make the science as correct as possible but it's hard on my own. Anyhoo, I'm afraid that people who don't spend time on things they want to work on will get usurped by those who do.

Three times in the last two days I forgot my phone. The first time was on Tuesday when I left it at my parents' place in the morning. I went back to pick it up. Then I left the phone at the house after dinner. I went back to pick it up. Then yesterday I left my phone at work after I had left for the day. I went back to pick it up. Time to use a tether!

So I wanted to renew my Ontario Science Centre membership, but have been having trouble trying to log in the past couple of days. I even called in to the ticketing office to complain because the error message told me to. They told me that there were no issues, and accidentally hung up on me. Resetting the password did not seem to work, until something dawned on me: My password uses special characters. So I tried something. I removed all the special characters from the password, and guess what? It worked! I'm surprised that in this day and age that sites like these don't properly handle special characters. I'll make sure not to save any detailed information on their site. It looks like a possible back door. I tried calling again, but was left on the line so I figured that I should just write about it seeing as nobody is listening..

In case this is something valid: 1 cup of washing soda 1 cup of borax 1/2 - 1 cup of grated bar soap Mix everything together and use about 1/4 cup per load. Not sure if this is a real recipe but will need to check it out one day.

I was laughing at DeeL when I saw his mail this weekend. He got mail from the sherrif's office for jury administration. I personally had not been called up for maybe 12 years, and that was my first time ever being picked. I was able to get out of jury duty at that time as I was basically the only coder at that time and the company probably would have not done well if I disappeared for months. I kind of regretted the decision as I was curious about the whole process and was interested in taking part. Anyway, this afternoon my dad handed me a letter from the sherrif's office for jury administration. Ah crap. Time to fulfill my civic duty!

I was riding to work this morning and had stopped at a light. A mini van passed me, in my lane, and stopped in the gap that I left between me and the car ahead. Now similar situations like this have happened to me before where cars go through my lane as if I was not even there, so my usual tactic is to get in front of the car and kind of make my presence known so that they keep an eye out for riders like me. So as we were stopped at the light, I went around the car and sat myself in front. After we started moving again, I rode normally, leaving about a car length or two between me and the car ahead while at speed. I also stayed on once side of the lane as riders normally do. Well, the mini van passed me again, this time while in motion. Now this is very dangerous and definitely got me riled up. At the next stop, I pulled up next to the vehicle on the driver's side. Inside was a early middle aged Chinese woman in the driver's seat. (Not giving that stereotype any help.) She di...

So MJNL and I put in an offer for a house last night. It was accepted conditionally. So now we're going to scramble to get all of the i's dotted and t's crossed..