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treasure in my ceiling??

bob — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 13:17:55 +0000

Yesterday i was replacing a loose ceiling fan mount in my ceiling, which is the floorboards for the 2nd level of my house.

In order to see what was going on, and for general curiosity, i snapped a few shots of this forbidden area. A few “studs” over, i spotted what looked like a miscellaneous chunk of wood sitting on top of the lath. I snapped a few other up close shots and inspected them with my camera. I sweatily decided it was simply a chunk of wood, and continued with my work and finished up the job.

Now that i’m looking at the pictures, i’m not so sure. I’m pretty sure its actually a wooden box, and i’m pretty sure there are mythical treasures inside. Some things that are likely inside include:
- diamonds
- old rare DC comic books
- ancient coins
- a map to atlantis

There are couple more related fotos on flickr.

not if you was the last immigrant grocer on earth… honey!!

bob — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 18:48:53 +0000

I’ve had this video embedded in my brain since i was a wee tike, watching the first “music videos” ever to hit the mainstream. Only bits and pieces of the beginning of it can i remember… so i googled for a bit, and found it.

The only problem is, YouTube stalls on it for me!!! It gets about 2 seconds in, then it stalls! You can drag around throughout to catch a bit of the video, it is there, but it keeps stalling!!!

Let me know if the video works for you. Hopefully the massive traffic my site will generate towards the video will make those folks at google wake up.

Update:

I guess that massive outpouring of hits to YouTube from my site caused those guys at google to wake up.

Gimme a bottle of anything. And a glazed donut. To GOOOO

Ok mabye its not as good as i remember it being… oh well.

text messages to prevent identity theft?

bob — Wed, 16 Jul 2008 12:46:09 +0000

I think if the banks and credit card companies really wanted to prevent identity theft, they’d offer a service (i’d pay!!!) where they send you a text message every time something happens in your account. You’d ignore most of them when you’re out and about spending freely, but would easily make note of the one made when you’re on the couch.

Does anyone know of services like this at their bank or outside of it??

what my cats do all day

bob — Thu, 03 Jul 2008 23:26:40 +0000

Pretty much what i did too. That and clean the basement.

Off to bluesfest, yay tv on the radio!!!

vacation

bob — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 15:15:52 +0000

I’m off work for a week!!

I booked this time off a few months ago knowing this would be a good time to not work. Boy was i right!!! I don’t have anything creative to say so i’m going to reproduce the list i created in my (home) workbook:

Fix iron post footings under awning
Clean garage
Do something with my canoe (anyone want a 16/17ft plasticish canoe)
Figure out how to finish my mud room
Clean the exterior of my house
By pressure washer
Paint outside awning
Paint outside doors
Fix light in mudroom
Add spice racks to kitchen
Fix front window sill

One additional thing - i was at the airport recently with time to kill, and picked up a magazine called Fine Homebuilding. Considering what i’m occupied with lately, this is pretty much the best magazine EVER. They’ve got tons of online features too:

Skinny house (great for centertown)

Drywall tips

Testing electrical testers!!!

Yay tools!!!

itinerary of an unplanned weekend

bob — Fri, 06 Jun 2008 17:21:45 +0000

I’ve decided to refuse any and all plan invitations this weekend. Nothing will be planned. This means i have nothing to do, and nothing is expected of me. There are some things i *may* do, but only if whimsicality guides me in that direction. Hence things i’m going to do this weekend:

Refuse offers of things to do
Ensure i don’t plan on doing anything
Annoy people with my frivolity

So i’m not planning on going to go to art in the park, or finish my kitchen, or play wii, or laze around. Its going to be super!!!

plumbing rules!!!

bob — Fri, 30 May 2008 20:29:03 +0000

The uppers are up, the base is in, the double sink expansive and nice, things are coming together. Mostly just finishing touches this weekend!!!

ottawa real estate - now with locations?

bob — Tue, 27 May 2008 13:16:53 +0000

Just stumbling over to the ottawa real estate site this morning, it seems a major change has occurred. They are now listing the LOCATION of every house being listed!!! Not sure what’s up here, but it was the major reason i had an agent before… they’d help me actually locate the listings i was interested in.

I don’t think ottawa agents will like this very much. I actually don’t think sellers will like this very much as it’s far easier to spot fake gems, like this place - great looking house, shite location.

Tags: ottawahousing

running on pasta

bob — Sun, 25 May 2008 13:53:58 +0000

I ran the 10k yesterday and it was a good time. I had been training for 8 weeks or so, roughly running 5 days a week, it was a long haul. Over now though!!! Yay!!! I finished well ahead of where i expected, i attribute 25% of that to good weather, 25% of it to a better starting position, and 50% of that to healthy lungs. Finally, empirical evidence that i’m healthier now that i don’t smoke!!!!

Mostly so i remember next year, i’m going to boringly note what i ate. Friday morning i was at rocking johnny’s for breakfast taking my car in, followed by a medium 2nd cup cappuccino. When i got home i started pigging out on pita and hummus and tabouleh, and pretty much ate that all day long, with the inclusion of one kaiser roll sandwhich of left over genoa, provalone, and hot n sweet mustard. Around 6 o’clock, i cooked for the first time in over a month a very dilectable de cecco fettucine dish that had:
- 2 bbq sliced sazloves lamb sausages
- 2 bbq sliced sazloves chorizo sausages
- 4 chopped roma tomatos
- 1 head of long raddiccio, chopped
- one large shallot diced
- 1/2 bunch of fresh oregano leaves
- lots of salt and pepper
- garlic infused oil (about 30 minutes)

All raw but the sausages added to the pasta at the end, very darn tasty. Ate a bunch of that friday night for dinner, then when i was alone, i picked away at it some more around 10pm. Then i had some mango sorbet. Saturday morning around 9am i had breakfast i prepared the night before - mango coconut granola, frozen berry fruit, and a few corn flakes. Then coffee… couldn’t avoid the coffee on race day!! At 1pm i had leftovers of the pasta, not too much but a decent human sized portion. At 3:30pm i went to the store, bought 2 gatorade’s, and proceeded to finish just one of them before about 5:45. I also drank water throughout the day.

This all seemed to work pretty well, but i still think there was too much food sloshing around in my tummy. Should’ve eaten a smaller lunch… also, i had to pee. I peed twice in the hour before the race, but it still wasn’t enough. I have to be good and STOP drinking fluids by about 5pm i think. Then i’ve got a hope of purging my body.

The pot i used to clean the pasta is still dirty. Its a little too big to wash in the bathroom… i’m hoping plumbing will be restored today. Guess i should get to work - first things first… make some coffee!!!!

too early

bob — Fri, 09 May 2008 17:45:26 +0000

I have a big problem with assumptions, and a real hate for being late. Those two flaws collided when i was 1 week, 30 minutes early for my eye appointment this morning. Its in my schedule for next week, yet i woke up assuming it was this morning. I need start double checking things and assuming i know whats going on… not only was i one week too early, but i would’ve been 30 minutes early had it been this week!!!

I also ordered some new shoes, i didn’t even think when i put the size in… the size was wrong. If i had used my brain, i woulda realized i shoulda checked my shoe size.

Whats up with all this? Am i in too much of a rush these days? Too presumptuous?? Have scatterbrain syndrome? Yesum.