Weakend

well, the weekend is not starting off so good. the weather is pretty crappy and rainy. i have two different schools to finish the electrical design on this weekend, i'm working on one today and i'll do the other one tomorrow, probably 5 hours each. i'm on break right now. fun.
i just made the worlds ugliest bacon and cheese omlet. it started out okay, but i couldn't flip it because it wouldn't hold together. so when i was finally able to get under it, it half flipped and tore into 3 main pieces, and was already brown on the bottom (i hate anything even remotely close to being burned or fully done). so i tried to reassemble it hoping that the uncooked part, now on the bottom, would chemically fuse it back together... in the testing of my theory, i broke it now into 5 or 6 different pieces. so i put my velveta on the biggest piece and stacked the smaller pieces on it like it was folded over. i put the burned sides to the inside thinking they wouldn't taste as bad if i didn't have to look at them. so i flipped it one more time, not wanted the outside to burn too, waiting for the cheese to melt, and my puzzle piece top just fell apart even more. good thing was that the cheese melted faster, because now most of it was laying directly on the skillet, so i just poured the whole mess off onto my plate. i'd give it a 3 out of 10 on taste, the velveta was 2 of the 3 points. i'm usually pretty good at making omlets, maybe i'll just stick to sunny side up or scrambled, i never mess them up.
friday afternoon i went to the dentist for my normal 6 monther (i've never had a cavity before, ever) and my little scraper & picker girl starts to lean in and really stare at this one spot, so after she's all done, the real dentist comes in to give me a look over. he has to ask which one she was talking about, i think it was number 12, which made my tooth feel kinda just like a number in stead of a part of the whole mouth experience. so he leans in to stare, and starts sticking a pick axe in to the side of my tooth. "well, there's definately something there, i don't know if it's a cavity though" he says. so i have to go in next friday, he's going to put a white fitting in the hole he was making worse. i guess he's going to drill it out some first? i didn't ask how much this was going to cost me...
the friday after that, i have to go to the car dealership and get my window fixed... while i sit there... for who knows how long... he said they could get it done in an afternoon, for somewhere between 3 and 4 hundred dollars.
that's all for now, unless something else bad happens, then i'll append...

Mardi Gras

Mardi Gras was awesome!! i stayed at my friend's loft right in soulard. we went to the parade and froze our asses off, it was alot of fun, caught alot of beads, saw some boobs. you can't bring bottles or cans out to the parade, so i poured a bunch of beers into a huge QT mug, and brought spares for reloading stuffed into all my coat pockets. i kept having to chip the ice out of the drinking hole in the lid, it kept freezing shut. i didn't know if anyone was going to be flashing, being that it was below freezing, but there were some real troopers out there saturday! after the parade, we warmed up for a bit and had lunch. then we went and watched the They Might Be Giants concert. it was at an outdoor stage, totally free! they started at 6:30, right after dark, holy shit was it cold, it also got very windy, making it worse. i was even kind of dancing around, just to stay warm. it was a Fantastical show!! they were awesome, i had never seen them live before.

something new

well, i learned something new tonight. i did laundry tonight, overly full load of darks and jeans was first, got thru it without issue. next was the lights and whites load, getting them out of the dryer, i noticed something about my pillow case didn't look quite right. <> back several months ago, i got some wicked nice sets of pottery barn sheets. they're like a zillion thread count white sheets with matching pillow cases and such.... <> so this pillow case is half turned inside out, and there's this extra flap on one side. you put the pillow in the case like normal, then this flap goes around the other end of the pillow to hold it in place. all you other house wives are probably saying "Duh!!" well, shaddup and let me have my little moment of revalation. i've learned my new thing for today, so i'm done... till next time...
i'm going down to soulard for mardi gras, my buddy has a kickass loft down there. so he's having an all weekend party-fest with a bunch of people...
but now i'm gonna play some guitar for a while, then go to bed... using my pillow cases to their full potential for the first time

i'm dreaming of a white valentine's day

yanno the best thing about shoveling the driveway this late at night??? there's absolutely no chance in hell your beer will get warm!! unfortunately, my fingers were colder than my beer, but they're thawed enough to type now, so i'll live. my neighbor and his kids were out playing in the snow when i got home, so i gunned the car and jumped the great wall the plow left in front of my driveway. his kids cheered, he wasn't impressed, as he has all kinds of 4-wheel drive vehicles. i wanted to go tear shit up in his jeep, but he couldn't come out and play.
what else has been going on? mailed the taxes off today, i had them done last week, but my ink is crappy, so i waited till i could print them at work.
well, i still haven't had time to call the dealership about my window. not that i have time to spend any time without my car anyways, but at least i'll know how much it's gonna cost me. stupid car.
happy valentine's day to all the ladies... and some of the men
MikeY

superbowl

Hey, Indy won the SuperBowl!!! one of my favorite cities other than st. louis, well, just because "i'm with the band" when i'm there. Go Punch Judy!!!
well, i was hunting for the perfect e-card, but nobody makes one... so Happy Belated Groundhog Day!!! i wasn't able to post on the actual day... have you hugged a rodent today?
So, i fixed my car window by bolting a 2x4 into the door panel and the window bracket, to hold the window all the way up. nothing like doing a little auto repair with some lumber, it's almost as good as Bill's wooden snow plow attachment for the 4-wheeler... i'm going to call the dealership tomorrow and see how much the part is, and how much the labor will be, and when i can schedule it to get fixed, i'm hoping i can drop it off on a thursday night and have them fix it friday while i work from home. i'm also hoping this isn't going to cost my entire tax refund, which i'm mailing off tomorrow by the way, you slackers...
we'll have to see what the repair bill is going to be, there's also the incessant engine light, and any of it's 4 or 5 different codes it gives me when i scan it... i took it's title out to the garage and shook it in front of the car, letting it know that it was disposable... but then i started looking at cars, and realized that i can't afford a new, or even used car right now... i'd really hate to have to stretch out the money even more to buy something i don't really like or want just because my current p.o.s. forces me to get rid of it... we'll see, i'll post any updates.