Hyper Gumbo

(The die is cast, latin)

My vote is in the mail.  If only tv-advertising could be aware of that fact, and not keep annoying me with commecials for/against different parties, policies, and whatnots.

At least the rain stopped long enough that the roads had dried out enough, I was willing to scooter over to the post office.  First trip attempt since purchasing a scarf.  I will need to try some different ways of putting that on.  Today’s choice was less than fully effective, and made me paranoid that it was going to fly off me, and onto the windshield of the car behind me, in some cartoon-capers-esque prelude to a disaster.  Thankfully, this trip went without incident.

Sound Speed Scooters didn’t call me yesterday eve like they said they would.  I took that as a pretty bad sign.

I just got off the phone with the scooter-mechanic, who claims that they think they have the problem solved now, that it was a bad controller / lithium communication channel.  He says they replaced the controller, and drove the scooter thru a full charge yesterday, without any issues.  They are going to do another full run again today, and hopefully have my bike ready tonight.

Because they’re going out of town for the weekend, so if it’s not tonight, it’s next week (he said monday, but they aren’t usually open on mondays, so…?).  Yeah, go take off for a weekend, leave me stuck, again, while we finally get some sunny weather.

schmucks.

I love the way Google calls all it’s products Beta, but never actually provides a mechanism for soliciting feedback, which kind of defeats the purpose of a beta.  NE-who.

First sucky thing I’ve noted, asside from the lack of default support for the adblock plus firefox plugin, is that you can’t drag and drop an image from amazon.com to itunes with chrome.  It highlights the image, but it must be dragging the html code instead of the image itself, ’cause itunes doesn’t like what it’s offering up.  Firefox still works fine for that, so chances are the may be the only post ever posted with chrome….

The closing ceremonies of the Olympics showcased two of my favorite wish-I-had-impractical-levels-of-money-dreams, a monowheel-cycle, and the grasshoper-legs.  I could afford the powerizers, I suppose, I just couldn’t imagine where I’d get to use them.

I swore I’d be an anti-evangelist after I discovered the lack of wishlist support, and the annoying excuses amazon gives for why it doesn’t work, but then someone caught me in a good mood while I was out eating and reading, and I couldn’t help but sell him on how much better the kindle is than the sony e-reader.  When I left, he was planning on going straight home to buy one for his daughter.

I have tasted the Kool-Aid, and I have to admit, it’s a pretty tasty beverage.  I’m not talking the real kool-aid, I’m talking the metaphorical, in this case, the Apple-way.  I picked up an airport express, and spent the $10 to get access to the app store for my touch.  I have to admit, while there were some problems getting it all set up, once it was, it just works.

Finally, I can listen to the same music in the bathroom, as I am in the living room.  It’s synchronized, no distortion, no static, just music.  And the itouch’s remote software lets me select, pause, and rate music from anywhere in the apartment.  If only they had a built-in time-shifting plug-in for audio.  I guess life can’t be totally perfect.

Random seems really unrandom, but maybe that’s because I haven’t loaded so much music in yet.

Oh yeah, time to get paid for all those flickr-shots.

I’m reading one of my daily fave sites, i love bacon, and they have a picture of a sign for skin pizza, 4 for $10. Turns out it’s a potato skin pizza. Just one missing word makes the difference between information and fun-formation I guess =p.

I am so going up to Victoria to ride the zip lines.  The summer camp I went to as a kid, and worked at as a college student, had one that went down the bluffs in Branson. It sounds like nothing on this experience….

Managed my first accidental tip-over yakking on lake union tonight.  Some kids on the dock were playing with a ball, and it got away from them into the water.  I was helpfully tossing it back, but leaned just a bit too far and…splash.  Most importantly, my glasses remained on my head.  Well, I didn’t drown either, which is sorta important too, just not as likely a disaster.