When I first decided I wanted my crazy slide-rule wath back in July or so, I sketched this plan for an awesome trench-style band to replace the stock steel bracelet.

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Here's an outtake from Jeffie's secret-agent photos of me, all pettin' on my gun.
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• Stayed up far too late reading a webcomic about Warhammer 40k
• Went Xmas shopping, hit the gun store just for the hell of it.
• Bought a cavalry saber
• Bought a watermelon approximately the size of a human head
• Rocked out at work. The cool manager was stocking, and he hooked his CD player up to the store's PA and played some metal because he was tired of ( Read more... )

I was showing Jeffie this ad we got from the furniture store disguised as a Christmas card -- not a card telling us to buy stuff, just a regular flyer stuffed into a card-shaped envelope -- and the budgie started chirping ( Read more... )

"The car was broken, James' zip was stuck, and we'd accidentally written 'arse biscuits' on the driver's door. We expected the race to be the usual fare, really -- you know, everything would catch fire and we'd all drown ( Read more... )

Awakened at 10:30 to the sound of drums. Turns out they're working on the roof or something, and getting awful happy with the hammering. One guy right above my head pounding on something structural, and another off in the distance that seems to have something against a paint can. I am sick, dehydrated*, and rather sleep-deprived, so this is not a ( Read more... )

Time to format the old-computer-turned-backup-turned-portable HDD for use at school. Which file system works with both Mac and PC? (WinXP and OS10, if it matters.)

Today at work I saw:

A guy with the watch I want (Seiko SNA411)

A girl with the creepiest too-blue eyes I've ever seen. Not too blue in the sense of Hugh Laurie or Cal Ripken, blue-Sharpie blue. Pretty close to #0707c6 in hex (paste it in here if you don't have a favorite color picker of your ownAnd the weirdest thing of all, a customer who ( Read more... )

I'm building a replacement vent window for Jeffie's car. Went down to Home Depot and bought a sheet of Lexan, ignored all the internet forum posts on how to cut it (use a jigsaw or Dremel cutoff wheel, go slow, and pour water on it), and instead put the smallest-toothed blade I had in my cordless reciprocating saw and leaned on the trigger. It ( Read more... )

The laces on my jump boots were getting a bit worn (after ten years of wear), so I replaced them with 550 parachute cord (I'd gotten some to make a lanyard for my 1911 like the one I made for the Webley, but it was too hard, so I never did). Because the guy at the shop measured the ten feet I asked for nose-to-fingertip like a seamstress and had ( Read more... )