Now don’t get me wrong, I like Dannon yogurt…but it kind of scares me. Since using the pyramid tracker (not my idea, but still very useful :)), I’ve been trying to keep track of what I’m eating an get some better food in my system, like yogurt.

Why does Dannon scare me?

Well when you first open it up - the top of the yogurt looks kind of…gelatinous and abnormal, like it’s been sitting around for a while. Now granted, once you stir it up and get that fruit mixed up it’s great (I have boysenberry today), but that initial impression always makes me shudder just a little bit.

And only now, after staring at the word “Dannon”, do I realize how much it looks like Damon… Do I have a gelatinous look when you first open me?

So I’ve spent the entire week trying to get Prelude-IDS installed on my Solaris box without much success. Now this could be a result of a couple things - 1. the slightly old build of Solaris 9 I have installed on the box or 2. my complete inadequacy with Solaris…which is probably the primary issue. It took me about three days to figure out how to get libprelude installed including figuring out how to get gcc installed, figuring out pkgadd and pkg-get, and getting lost with crle. I’d post more details if I had been more successful, but I’ve hit a wall trying to install libpreludedb.

Maybe I’ll just install those components on my old linux web server that isn’t doing much these days…oy.

Sorry if I’ve been a little bit quiet of late - I’ve been in the DC area for almost three weeks now and posting to my site is usually the last thing I want to do while sitting in the hotel room at nine-0-clock at night.

However, if there is one thing I do want to complain about it’s the chlorine in the water at the hotel, which is one of my biggest pet peeves. I understand they need to keep things sanitary, but isn’t there another way? The place I’m staying at this week has so much chlorine in the shower water, that I get a headache at work because my entire body reeks of chlorine.

Ecch.

It’ll be good to get back.

phew

What a weekend I had. I’m in DC this week, so I figured I would drive home and see the ‘rents as I haven’t been back home for a while. So a nice 6-hour drive to CT I said hi to my parents and even my grandmother and brother+wife came in as well, so it was a good time home. I only spent one night there, however, and Sunday (after dropping a mysterious lovely visitor off at the airport) I shot straight back to the DC area, stopping only once for some gas and snacks. Thankfully, traffic was just fine, but man am I sore today! It was good to be home again, as always, and I enjoyed my relaxing time - short though it was.

I’m looking forward to getting back to Chi-town. :)

A really cool optical illusion - don’t strain your eyes too bad!

Rapid Afterimage

I discovered last night that the racks in my oven had been inserted backwards. ovenracks/IMGP1628

This makes it very difficult to remove the oven racks to place them in different positions, which make me question how they got that way in the first place! It was certainly not easy getting them out, not to mention when the oven is at 350, but a little twisting and contorting and I was able to extract one of them.

But I’m still curious…who the heck put them in that way and how did they do it?!

Would you let your dog drive your Lexus?

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I took a few more pics of my new place tonight. They can be found in the west loop moving gallery. Here’s a couple previews:

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A scary time in any young man’s life - when he realizes he is becoming like his father.

In my experience these are isolated incidents when you realize that you are doing something your father would have, and you simply stop and put your head in your hands. Perhaps it’s not that extreme, but I just had one of those moments this morning.

I was opening a box of cereal and pulled a little too hard and ripped the bag down both sides. Instead of merely shrugging it off and assuming it would be fine, I whipped out the tape and patched the bag together in no time. As I was admiring my handy-work, my brain kicked in and said “eyep, just like your dad would do”.

Awesome. grin

Well I’m sure there are a lot of places, but when I went to this place about a year ago (maybe more) it was pretty darn good. And imagine that…they have a web site!

Luling City Market - Central Texas Barbecue & Bar 4726 Richmond Avenue - Houston, Texas 77027 (713.871.1903)

I’ll have to hit that up again if I’m ever in the neighborhood…