Huntsville Haute Cuisine

09.09.2002

Saturday I finally took Gina out for our fancy night out on the town. All fancy truly entails is me wearing non-denim long pants. But to make it more interesting, I took her to Pauli's Chophouse, home of fine dining downtown.

There are times that you go out of your way to show love. Getting dressed up, going to a fancy dinner (denim-free), saying to hell with the diet. These are all sacrifices. We ate and we ate well. Then the bill came.

$130.00

For dinner. For two. I told her not to look at the prices. I didn't look at the prices. I knew it was going to be expensive, part of me kind of liked it. I never blow a wad on dinner. But I've got to admit, $130.00 took me a little by surprise. Luckily, I'm in training to be one of the major power players of Huntsville with all of the web-work I've got lined up, so the bill was no bug deal. Still. $130.00. It was good, and I know you have to take into account the service, location, and atmosphere along with the food, but even then I think they owe me $30 or $40.

Later I'll rant about Pollock telling em to get the Pastrami Cured Tuna. It's sushi grade tuna, except instead of being wrapped in rice, it's covered with pastrami seasoning.

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Playing With The Site

09.08.2002

I made a couple of changes to the website (none that anyone should really notice) over the weekend. Mainly behind the scenes cosmetic stuff. But if anything looks screwy, let me know.

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New Camtoon Time!

09.05.2002

After a couple of months, I now have some new CamToons up. I'm trying to get a grasp on a running story line, both to try and be consistent in updating them, and because they're usually more fun to read then.

Not to mention the boatload of figures I've got, all of which are clamoring for a starring role....

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Oops, Wrong Number Again

09.04.2002

This is what was waiting for me on the answering machine when I got home last night:

Imagine a 60 year old woman's voice telling me the following: Virginia, this is Pat. Brenda wanted me to call and let you know that Billy had his surgery and everything went ok. I'll call back later when you're home.

So, Virginia, if you're out there, Billy's surgery went ok. (I wonder if Pat ever called back when she was home?)

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Mom's Air Conditioner

09.02.2002

Usually I make a cute or pun ridden title, but this just strikes me as weird.

Mom has been on a home improvement kick. 2 weeks ago, she got a new roof on the house, and along the way discovered that the old roof, well, sucked. It had acouple of major leaks that were on the verge of ruining rafters. There was also a birds nest inside where they had managed to get through the shingles at an eave and build a nest. This past week, Mr. Air-Conditioning-Man came to tell her why the air conditioning wasn't cooling the house like it should.

The reason was obvious. Freon? New thermostat? Really expensive part? Nyah. At some point, a mouse (the nasty kind that invades a home, not the cute Warner Brothers kind) made its way into the air conditioner and started chewing. It chewed far enough that it hit current and YOWZA!, no more mouse. What the mouse managed to do was die along (and short out) a strip that tells the air conditioner to turn on the heat, so whenever the air conditioner was on, the heat was on. Kind of seems self-contradictory, doesn't it? Now Mom should be able to reach the sub-zero temperatures that the air conditioner should provide.

Tangent #1: Totally unrelated to Mom's air conditioner, and probably moot since she may never know I'm posting this, happy birthday to Mrs. Jer. 29. If this was the world of Logan's Run, she would be on the verge of running for her life!

Tangent #2: Totally unrelated to Mom's air conditioner and E's birthday, welcome back to the Central timezone to Kitty Perriwinkle, future webcam star (it's not her real name, it's her webcam star name...). Stay away from California and practice taking showers while not looking at the hidden camera.

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