Nervetree

I’m a audio freak, and a cheapskate. An incompatible combination. I got around it for years by buying very high end headphones. My amp died a while back and I have been using amp from a friend he got it at goodwill, paid $5. I have been watching the papers on and off for a while looking for a good deal. On a whim I got a T-amp Super T amplifier. Don’t know what it sounds like. I heard about it on the radio, and read some reviews.

This guy was foaming at the mouth about it. review

I hope it will drive my old nice speakers. Hurry up UPS…

Its 2 AM, My Neighbors house just caught fire. About 15 Engines are on the street, 50 firemen, 4 ambulances, this little trailer that has a compressor to refill tanks. Its this 100 year old victorian on the corner. She likes to garden, the firemen brought her out unconscious, but OK. Her son came home as they took her out and freaked. I think everyone there will be OK but it was strange. It was the second time in 3 years that the place has caught fire, and in the same spot. This time I think the house is a total loss. It was the first time I saw all my neighbors standing in one spot, A big motley group of worried people. I can still hear the chainsaws chewing away.

My friend Charlie invited me to DefCon in Las Vegas today, I had 4 hours notice. Not quite enough. Maybe next year, I’m getting some cool T-shirts though.

I got a new Apple bluetooth wireless mouse, I like the feel and the wireless. However the right click only works about 80% of the time. I’m not sure if the mouse learns or I do ( my college life disproves the latter ) but the mouse is seeming to work better. Its a laser mouse that uses an IR laser. The tracking is alot better than the red dot laser mice.

I got a new Apple bluetooth wireless mouse, I like the feel and the wireless. However the right click only works about 80% of the time. I’m not sure if the mouse learns or I do ( my college life disproves the latter ) but the mouse is seeming to work better. Its a laser mouse that uses an IR laser. The tracking is alot better than the red dot laser mice.

For those of you who don’t know, I’ve got a sailboat. Its being restored by my Dad and Mom right now. Here’s a pic with it’s hardy first mate.

I watched Serenety the firefly movie last night, again. I caught a glimpse of the fruity oaty bar commercial and found it. It’s contagious.

I just found out that Textmate has support for entering blog information right from the editor, I’m sure that emacs does this. But it’s still cool

So I was out for a ride with a good friend John. We did one of the Rails to Trails routes here in Minnesota. There was a 10 mile long paved bike path past ponds, woods and rolling hills. I rode my recumbent Bike-E -W- Air suspension( for that boulevard ride ) It was comfey.

Riding along a country road when the trail ended towards a Victorian rivertown, Stillwater, I was getting hungry. There’s this really good ice cream store Browns, single scoops as big as your head. So here I am a hungry biker on a fast recumbent with one valley between me and Ice Cream.

I went REALLY fast down the hill into the valley, I swear I heard the Ice cream truck bell somewhere in the back of my mind. John is tucked in right behind me. At 40 the tiny front wheel of the Bike-E became REALLY unstable, oscillating side to side very fast, until I wiped out.

Uber road rash.

I really don’t remember much. John says it was spectacular. He was standing on his brakes to avoid me. I was sliding on the inside side of my new walking shoes. The new shoes SAVED my ankles, all the leather on the insides were gone, but very little skin. I sprained my knee, got a bad case of road rash, my bike shorts and T-shirt were shredded. The bike was OK.

The ambulance came, the medics gawked at my butt. “Thats a big rasberry there”, “Yep” and so on. They were really helpful and super quick getting there. If you are in need of rapid care, I recommend Stillwater.

All in all the ride was fun. The ice cream was well deserved.

Years ago, after a 16 hour shift doing heavy labor. I was on the way home 80 miles away. Driving through the rolling hills of Minnesota in early Spring, grass green and Burr oak trees without leaves, my feet HURT, 16 hours on them and they will do that. I was drinking the last of my fork test coffee ( does a fork stand up in it ) looking at the trees, they were like the twisted endings of the nerves now pounding in my toes. I imagagined a Grant Wood landscape, rolling green hills and instead of burr oak trees, giant 80 foot high big toes.