Category: Miscellanea

  • Happy 2004

    Happy New Year’s, everyone. I’ve never done all that much for New Year’s, and this year was no exception – I’m busy database programming. Woo-hoo! 🙂

  • If you want something done right, you gotta do it yourself…

    Every time it rains, our DSL goes out, and the phone line gets screwy (or just goes out, as well). Bellsouth has sent people out, repeatedly, usually after delays of hours or days, which is bad, for a home-based Internet business. They usually tinker for a while and get it working again, but not always;…

  • Close Encounter

    I was about 30 feet away, when a lightning bolt blew apart a large sweetgum tree, in the back yard. Fortunately, I was inside, but I still went flash-blind and concussion-deaf, for a few seconds. That’s the second closest I’ve been to a lightning strike (the closest was a direct hit between the cabin and…

  • Mini Cooper S (JCW) Test Drive

    I just test-drove the 2003 Mini Cooper S, with the 200-hp John Cooper Works supercharger. Very nice… Don’t know if or when I’ll be getting one, but I did enjoy it. Great handling; jumped off the line; I ran it from 0 to 70, without really pushing it, in no time flat and without even…

  • I wanna Mini

    I think I want a Mini Cooper S. What a sweet little car!