We got pepper sprayed in class on Saturday. I still can't think of anything that has hurt more. I recovered fairly quickly but, damn. That stuff is effective.

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While trying to rip a DVD last night I totally hosed my main machine. Again. I have to assume it's one of the pieces of freeware that I'm using. I don't think it's malicious, but it's frickin' annoying. Files and folders are being corrupted left and right. The machine is still running and Firefox will start, so I can at least interact with it. Oh, ( Read more... )

I had a pretty good day yesterday. I made some flour tortillas from scratch, started some bread dough, and made split pea soup, also from scratch. The boys weren't too horrible while I was up and I even got most of the dishes washed. All this before my day off too. Not bad at all.

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And I bought a gun. I went to a place out on Mark West Springs Road and purchased a Glock 22 and various accessories. My income tax return cleared Friday providing the funds to make said purchase. So I now have just about everything I need for the next module at the academy.

I had a bit of an extended computer emergency last week. I've had an 80 GB hard drive for some time. Late last year it stopped working for a day or two. It eventually came back up but it motivated me to purchase a second drive. I had been planning to do so for some time, but that experience hastened my action. I had a the same problem early last ( Read more... )

I was meaning to post about this a while back. But two weeks ago I was instructed on how to break someone's arm in about 4 or 5 different ways. I'm attending a police academy and we've been doing defensive tactics training. The arm breaking comes as a result of handgun retention techniques. As one of our instructors put it, if someone grabs a cops ( Read more... )

I just canceled the paper portion of most of my bills. It's a lot like getting receipts at stores or balancing my checkbook. I always think I'm going to do it or make some use of them, but it rarely happens. And all of the places that offer electronic billing have fancy things to let you look up and compare or print old statements. They tend to ( Read more... )

My father-in-law likes cheese. A lot. When he was up at our place for Christmas we had at least 8 kinds of cheese in our refrigerator. This included the usual variaties that are normally present; cheddar, jack, and mozerella. But we also had brie, gouda, havarti, and a $20 wedge of parmesean. When we were at his house for Thanksgiving he almost ( Read more... )

They're doing construction on the Richmond San Rafael Bridge again. This sucks as both directions narrow to one lane at night. We made two trips across it last week. The first time I was unaware of this development and was distressed upon arriving at the backup caused by it. Two days later we made the trip again. This time I was much more calm and ( Read more... )

While driving an add came on the radio for a local pizza place talking about Tuscan margaritas. Lexi began musing about these tusken margaritas and was wondering if the would have mini gaffi sticks in them instead of little umberellas.

I told her, "You are *such* a geek."