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Turns out a long-time LJ friend was someone I knew in person for the last couple years, unaware we had already met in some capacity online. We have opted to restart updates, in some sort of pact that hasn't really been discussed, so here we go =)
I've started a new volume of the handwritten paper journal. After having good fortune with hardback spirals with fine lines for cramming more details per page.. I've gone with a bound, hardback that was just perfect but unfortunately has wider lines. Instead of obeying those lines, I've instead decided to writer smaller so I can fit two lines of text on each marked line, writing eensy words on an invisible line between lines. It's worked out well so far, but I practically need to sit at a desk to make each entry. The new volume also fails to conform to other patterns established by previous volumes by being practically square (the others being taller than wide like normal books) so that if placed on a bookshelf would not line up properly.
The Journal @ Barns&Noble -- http://goo.gl/ESz5X
I met my quota for adventure-having Saturday when, out doing some errands on the way to pick up my birthday present from my parents' house, I got back in the car after picking up the mail from the PO and the ignition key SNAPPED IN TWO. I've never experienced this before, but really, I guess it is a 15-y/o key. Thankfully I was within a 8-10 minute stroll to my parents' house, where they had a spare. I strolled, to, picked up the spare and birthday package, and fro, and went along my merry way, solution resolved. Gotta make a new copy, though, before this one also snaps, as it's about the same age. Thankfully the snapped half was only sitting loosely inside the ignition and didn't require pliers or something to get it out. I did wonder, though, whether I had simply pressed the broken half inside, would the thing still turn? I didn't want to find out, though, because getting it back out would be a big hassle if it didn't work.
The present I picked up is a "Beard Head", a type of expensive ski mask (as far as ski masks go, I suppose) that is very warm, and doesn't cover any of your face except for a large detachable moustache. The winter is coming up, and last winter I endured the entire season without a heater (core) in my car. I managed to convince my parents to get me this very peculiar head covering in that it would keep me warmer inside the car on the way to work in the chilly wee hours. The "Lumberjack" version below is the model I've been graced with (as requested)..
http://www.beardhead.com/lumberjack.html
Confession time -- there's something I have long felt guilty about, and it's a nerdy thing to feel shamed about. I am saddened at my own inability to harness the energy generated by the car's braking action. It just seems to me that a mechanism could be constructed that could at least partially (a) slow down the forward motion of the car, but (b) in the very same act of storing that energy up, to therefore (c) move the car forward again from a stopped position. It just seems that the act of winding up something, or, making a giant flywheel begin spinning, would make the car go slower instead of just braking like usual, and that the wound object's or flywheel's stored energy, could be switched backward to unwind or release that stored energy in making the car begin moving forward again -- without the consumption of fuel until the forward motion resumed to nearly a point at which the car had been going in the first place. Starting from a stopped position uses a lot of fuel, but keeping a car going at certain speeds requires less fuel to maintain the constant speed than it does to go from zero to that speed. And I die a little bit inside every time I have to brake and can't conserve that energy =P *sigh*
I've started a new volume of the handwritten paper journal. After having good fortune with hardback spirals with fine lines for cramming more details per page.. I've gone with a bound, hardback that was just perfect but unfortunately has wider lines. Instead of obeying those lines, I've instead decided to writer smaller so I can fit two lines of text on each marked line, writing eensy words on an invisible line between lines. It's worked out well so far, but I practically need to sit at a desk to make each entry. The new volume also fails to conform to other patterns established by previous volumes by being practically square (the others being taller than wide like normal books) so that if placed on a bookshelf would not line up properly.
The Journal @ Barns&Noble -- http://goo.gl/ESz5X
I met my quota for adventure-having Saturday when, out doing some errands on the way to pick up my birthday present from my parents' house, I got back in the car after picking up the mail from the PO and the ignition key SNAPPED IN TWO. I've never experienced this before, but really, I guess it is a 15-y/o key. Thankfully I was within a 8-10 minute stroll to my parents' house, where they had a spare. I strolled, to, picked up the spare and birthday package, and fro, and went along my merry way, solution resolved. Gotta make a new copy, though, before this one also snaps, as it's about the same age. Thankfully the snapped half was only sitting loosely inside the ignition and didn't require pliers or something to get it out. I did wonder, though, whether I had simply pressed the broken half inside, would the thing still turn? I didn't want to find out, though, because getting it back out would be a big hassle if it didn't work.
The present I picked up is a "Beard Head", a type of expensive ski mask (as far as ski masks go, I suppose) that is very warm, and doesn't cover any of your face except for a large detachable moustache. The winter is coming up, and last winter I endured the entire season without a heater (core) in my car. I managed to convince my parents to get me this very peculiar head covering in that it would keep me warmer inside the car on the way to work in the chilly wee hours. The "Lumberjack" version below is the model I've been graced with (as requested)..
http://www.beardhead.com/lumberjack.html
Confession time -- there's something I have long felt guilty about, and it's a nerdy thing to feel shamed about. I am saddened at my own inability to harness the energy generated by the car's braking action. It just seems to me that a mechanism could be constructed that could at least partially (a) slow down the forward motion of the car, but (b) in the very same act of storing that energy up, to therefore (c) move the car forward again from a stopped position. It just seems that the act of winding up something, or, making a giant flywheel begin spinning, would make the car go slower instead of just braking like usual, and that the wound object's or flywheel's stored energy, could be switched backward to unwind or release that stored energy in making the car begin moving forward again -- without the consumption of fuel until the forward motion resumed to nearly a point at which the car had been going in the first place. Starting from a stopped position uses a lot of fuel, but keeping a car going at certain speeds requires less fuel to maintain the constant speed than it does to go from zero to that speed. And I die a little bit inside every time I have to brake and can't conserve that energy =P *sigh*