Eric’s Blog

First off, I’m very much into old-american muscle cars- I suspect someday when I don’t mind dropping $30k into a toy car, it’d be a ‘69 SS big block camaro. So sweet. While the pic below isn’t a SS, it’s along the lines of what I would want to put together

So now I’m clear on that. The other spectrum are the little 4-cylinder cars that are running around. They don’t do a thing for me, but they are the de-facto standard for Rally Racing. Something about this is so intriging- I guess the romantic aspect of racing on the open road or across some high desert would be a rush. I’ll have to look into more about this- doubt I’ll ever do anything with it, but you never know. If it’s anything like Tai-Chi, it’ll take me about 10 years before I act on it. heh.

Now for KDE. Since the early days, I try each new release. Get pissed off with it (mainly from the random bugs/crashes, and the half-complete software). I have to say since compiling KDE 3.4, I haven’t been back to XFCE 4.2 since. In KDE, the console is the most bad-ass thing ever- being able to send ‘broadcast text’ to multiple windows is beyond cool (I’ll have to remember to use it when I have to make multiple changes across machines), and the double-click selecting is beyond good as well (working with multiple lines, etc.) Very impressive. I have all my hot-keys set up so I can press CTRL+ALT+t, and get a console. The ONLY gripe I have had so far is the clock applet in the corner- there’s no way to specify a date/time format outside of the OS. I’m half tempted to write my own, and see if it’ll get used. In short, kudos to the KDE team for doing such a great job- cut down on the new features, and beat down even more bugs for the .1 relese.

That’s it for now. Short this time. Oh, last night’s Surivovor (Survivor 10) was great- Stephanie is a friggin’ machine, but has this soft side that is nice to see as well. I tip my hat to her.

Aside from having to work a bit on Saturday morning, this weekend was awesome. Friday night, I thawed some tri-tip steaks, and went to the gym. Got home, and put Tabasco Chipotle sauce on ‘em with some garlic powder, and grilled them up. Earlier in the week, I picked up a bottle of Heitz Brothers Zinfandel, and proceeded to drink that with my dinner. I have had three bottles of wine sitting on my counter for about 6+ months, and never drunk them, but it was well past due to open this new bottle. Good stuff.

Saturday was a fun day. I got up pretty early to get to Home Depot, and picked up (6) 1 cubic foot bags of cow manure to put in the vegetable plot. Picked up some vegetable plants:

• (2) Brandy Wine tomato plants
• (2) Big Beef
• (2) Celebrity
• (3) Jalapeno [one pot had two)
• (1) serrano
• (1) cayenne
• (5) corn (serendipity)

I went over to Sam’s house to borrow his roto-tiller, (more…)

Yeah, perty (sic) happy about that one. Last week, it was 58 mins, and every time before that was over an hour. My only guess is that I ate a gynormous burrito, and it must have given me some good calories to burn. Most other times I eat Pho, or something with a lot of rice, and it must not give me the energy to perform. This time however, I did. Pretty excited about it. The other thing that it could have been was that it was really chilly, so with the dense air, I could get more oxygen in. I tell ya, the Dish at this time of year is absolutely breathtaking- I sometimes want to walk the trail just so I can see all the beautiful scenery. Truly amazing.. I can probably run it again tomorrow, but I’m thinking I’ll do it Sat before I go out, and hit the gym tomorrow instead.

Let’s see… slept like shit again last night. Woke up at 3:45, was awake for about an hour and a half. My ma said to try warm milk, so I had a glass of that, and it seemed to help. Tonight, (more…)

It’s been 10 days since I’ve posted in my blog, so I thought I was well due to scribble something down. Last night I slept great. You see, this is a big deal for me. Ever since I came back from Brazil, I’ve been sleeping like shit- waking up almost every night at 4:00am (with like a 10 min margin of error). Crazy. I have no idea why, and when I wake up, I’m wide awake. But for some reason, last night, I crashed hard- got to bed at about 11:30, read like half a page out of my trashy spy novel, and let the Z-Monster (God, I haven’t used “z-monster” since the Army days) have it’s way with me. I woke up at 7, but decided to go back to sleep, and then woke up at 8. It was great. I think I may know why I slept so good- earlier that night, I wanted some mint chip ice-cream, so I went to the store to get some. I had a bowl, and later a pint of Guinness. Yes, I know, that’s gross, but I do weird stuff like that sometimes… hee.

Andie, her mom and I went to Stacks for breakfast- the best damn breakfast around (next to Zachary’s up in Santa Cruz). The wait was an hour, but it was soooo good. I got the mexican omlette, and asked for some diced up jalapeños. I dumped the whole container on the omlette (it was basically green). For some reason it had no (more…)