my coffee maker has a "come drink me" beep!!

I made some coffee with our new cuisinart coffee maker this morning. There are several awesome things about this coffee maker:

1. it pours well


2. the breaker flipped when i turned the microwave on which is on the same circuit as the coffee maker, at the same time the coffee maker was brewing. I moved the coffee maker over to another circuit, and it picked up right where it left off, brewing, with the correct time.


3. 2 hours after it first beeped to tell me it was done brewing, it beeped again, and turned off the heater... i took this to read "come drink whats left of me!!!". There is an auto-shutoff mode, but i guess this is the default behaviour, and i love it.


4. Its white, and reasonably sexy.


5. There is no fifth thing.

My coffee maker is smarter than me, this is great (or scary)!!!

signage

I really don't like seeing election signs everywhere... but i'm torn because i'd likely forget about the election if i didn't see them everywhere. And i'm pretty sure i should care about the election, and vote and stuff. But i'm pretty self involved lately, so that would be out of character.

I'm afraid i have no solution to this problem. Luckily i have few other problems right now. I'm a little sick, and the fridge delivery guy scratched up the floor. Other than that, everything's great.

incognito

So very incognito... so little time to blog. This past month of august was the biggest and best month of my life. Many things happenned, but i'll summarize briefly:
- i'm engaged
- we bought a house, a single house for just us (and the kitlets)
- i'm busy unpacking
- and working many hours at my job that pays for all of the above

YAY LIFE!!! We just got cable back yesterday so this is the first time i've really hung out near a connected computer since we moved. Being wired again is GREAT i can look up stuff like epinions fridge reviews. Does anyone write a review for a fridge they actually LIKE? Very few...

I won't excuse my busy-ness. If you're reading this, you're likely on rss, so this isn't out of your way. All i do is complain about busy-ness... well, i'm not complaining anymore, i'm thankful! Yay full plates!!

Hope all is well with folks that are reading this.

treasure in my ceiling??

Yesterday i was replacing a loose ceiling fan mount in my ceiling, which is the floorboards for the 2nd level of my house.

In order to see what was going on, and for general curiosity, i snapped a few shots of this forbidden area. A few "studs" over, i spotted what looked like a miscellaneous chunk of wood sitting on top of the lath. I snapped a few other up close shots and inspected them with my camera. I sweatily decided it was simply a chunk of wood, and continued with my work and finished up the job.

Now that i'm looking at the pictures, i'm not so sure. I'm pretty sure its actually a wooden box, and i'm pretty sure there are mythical treasures inside. Some things that are likely inside include:
- diamonds
- old rare DC comic books
- ancient coins
- a map to atlantis

There are couple more related fotos on flickr.

not if you was the last immigrant grocer on earth... honey!!

I've had this video embedded in my brain since i was a wee tike, watching the first "music videos" ever to hit the mainstream. Only bits and pieces of the beginning of it can i remember... so i googled for a bit, and found it.

The only problem is, YouTube stalls on it for me!!! It gets about 2 seconds in, then it stalls! You can drag around throughout to catch a bit of the video, it is there, but it keeps stalling!!!

Let me know if the video works for you. Hopefully the massive traffic my site will generate towards the video will make those folks at google wake up.



Update:

I guess that massive outpouring of hits to YouTube from my site caused those guys at google to wake up.

Gimme a bottle of anything. And a glazed donut. To GOOOO

Ok mabye its not as good as i remember it being... oh well.

text messages to prevent identity theft?

I think if the banks and credit card companies really wanted to prevent identity theft, they'd offer a service (i'd pay!!!) where they send you a text message every time something happens in your account.  You'd ignore most of them when you're out and about spending freely, but would easily make note of the one made when you're on the couch.

Does anyone know of services like this at their bank or outside of it??

what my cats do all day

Pretty much what i did too. That and clean the basement.

Off to bluesfest, yay tv on the radio!!!