Archive for March, 2006

Breaking news…. 710 freeway is closed due to standoff

Wednesday, March 8th, 2006

Ok. Numbnuts steals a car. Ends up on the 710 freeway north bound. Stops his car just south of the Firestone bridge, pulls out a gun…. Cal Trans stops traffic on the freeway, and clears it in both directions. Taking people off the freeway at the 5, and at Firestone. he’s currently boxed in by [...]

Warning! Financial responsibility can lead to terrorism.

Monday, March 6th, 2006

Great. Paying off your credit card results in you being a security threat.
I said it from day one. “Homeland Security” is a name that only says US citizens need to beware of their government.
I long for the days when my money is my money, and the government has no business knowing how much I have [...]

Whale Watch 2

Monday, March 6th, 2006

Ok, I’m going to do a second round of whale watching. Saturday, March 18th at 1pm. The trip will run from 1pm to 4pm, with the Liberty leaving promptly at 1pm. I have organized a SomethingAwful.com Goon meet for the trip, and I’d like to get more people involved too. If you’re interested, drop [...]

Oscars

Sunday, March 5th, 2006

Wow… I like Stewart’s job on the Oscars this year so far…. but you know he’s not getting many laughs from the crowd.

Databasing again

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

I’ve been working on the boat database again this evening. I have had to rejigger a few things, mostly to accomidate the different percentages the landing gets if it’s an Open Party, a Landing Charter, or a Boat Charter, and the possibly bait charges or extra speakers for certain trips. Things left to do: add [...]

Sense of date

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

My sense of date is screwed up today.
It’s Saturday. All day today, I’ve been thinking it’s Sunday.
Not because I have to work tomorrow or anything, but rather, my internal calculation says “rain tomorrow or Tuesday”… when the forecast (last time I checked) said “Monday or Tuesday”. And no, I’m not misinterpreting the forecast to be [...]

database bragging

Saturday, March 4th, 2006

Ok. It’s late. it’s 1am. That’s very late for me, even on a Friday night/Saturday morning.
But finally, since I started working on it at 10pm, I figured out how to have working effectivity dates in Filemaker.
not a big deal?
It’s a huge deal.
Now I can track my changing costs (such as fuel) by date, and each [...]

programing rewrites

Friday, March 3rd, 2006

I’m in the middle of rewritting my costing sheet for the boat. Previously, I’ve been in Excel. I’m doing a full rewrite into Filemaker database system, so I can track actual trips and see how my estimates lined up….
Right now, my profits are not lining up properly….. Filemaker is showing too much profit on a [...]

Bad guys wear green bow ties

Thursday, March 2nd, 2006

Anybody in a green bow tie is a bad guy
Ah, Question, how fun you are to have around
He can see you. From the upcoming DC Comics series 52

time to escape

Wednesday, March 1st, 2006

I’m just now leaving work….
And tomorrow, I want to be in at 6:30 too. Joyful fun.
But there is the fishing show going on these days, down in Long Beach I want to try to hit up.