hit ikea this weekend for the shelving units/etc to go with our tv stand. out of stock on the units, and the etc is 6′x1′x6″ 80lb boxes … i can’t pick it up (leverage vs torque, gravity wins!). I was thinking of how to get it onto the dolly cart when it occurred to me [...]
OK, so this is (supposedly) the hindi characters (devangari script) unicoded version of the translations of the last post. Which means it’s gonna look even worse and be more meaningless :o learn to live with dissappointment. I’m making some of this up as I go! now, to keep crappy unicode squares from showing every time [...]
So, if I figure out how to get the hindi characters in, I’ll add them. but not tonight, b/c I’m leaving soon. krna aap mog krna hra adn aur ran — do you like green egg and ham (haven’t looked up rules on plurals, and i’m fairly sure i don’t need both krna’s, but i’m [...]
So, I’ve spent the weekends for something like 3 months cleaning the house piecemeal. then in january i had to crash out the living room. i got a lot of the crap from there into the basement room (certianly not using the sewing machine NOW!), but other bits went into the downstairs bedroom, k’s room, [...]
an ongoing thing the last few years has been my going back for my phd in computers. i kept saying i didn’t want to b/c i didn’t feel i could reasonably come up with thesis material. because PhD theses are supposed to be “new contributions to the field” and I’m not in a research environment [...]
We picked up a “screaming katy” baby doll the other day. ok, so, it’s got some wholly unmemorable name and it was a pain in the ASS to find the damned thing. the idea was we needed something baby-shaped and baby-sized that made baby-sounds, so k can start getting used to the annoying damned whiny [...]
so this weekend was our “childbearing” class. which told us about labor, the signs symptoms complications dangers options yadda etc and so on. two days. oi. i learned many interesting things. such as: it will hurt it will be messy it’ll hurt and those were the high points of hte process :o the videos did [...]