Shopping in Springville
Posted by sam at February 24th, 2006
When I first moved to Springville, I would drive past the local grocery store, Allens, on my way to Walmart. One day it occurred to me that I should support local business and all that, so I decided to start shopping at Allens.
Most times I have gone in there it has been impossible to find what I need. Simple things like soap. I will find the isle with the shampoo, toothpaste, etc. and look around for the soap? What’s next to the shampoo? Yarn. What’s next to the toothpaste? beer. Where is th soap? Who the hell knows - I spanned the store 3 times looking for it - I don’t think they carry it. Perhaps people who shop at Allens don’t use soap?
So I gave up on Allens for a while. Tonight I went to Walmart. Yea, it’s big and you have to walk all over the place, but at leats you only have to walk all over the place once instead of traversing the entire store to pick up to similar items.
The only thing about Walmart is that the don’t have baskets. I don’t want a cart full of stuff, I don’t want a handful of stuff, I want a basket full of stuff. They do, however, sell baskets - and I don’t see why you can’t go get one to hold your items and then simply not buy it at the end. And that’s what I do.
I need an oil change
Posted by sam at February 23rd, 2006
I’m about 2,000 miles overdue for an oil change. I’m not usually so careless, but I’ve been super busy lately and just haven’t been able to make it up to Firestone where I have a sweet $15 coupon.
Yea, I could change my own oil, but it’s not really worth it. Oil filter + Oil + Oil Disposal + Time >$15. Of course, you can save a couple bucks by dumping the oil into Utah lake, like I usually do, but then you have to drive to Utah lake.
Oh, and I wanted to let you all know my domain fiasco has all been solved. Besides gkg.net ripping me off a bit, everything has been tranferred and is now running smoothly. You may set your minds at ease.
1 Year domain registration + features I need
gkg.net = $25
godaddy.com =$8.95
GKG just nickle and dimes you on every last little feature. Wanna change your A name record? $5! Wanna be able to forward your domain? $5!
I should put my posting times in bold. It tells a lot about my life when my last post is 3:35am, then I go to bed, then my first post on DIY:happy is at 5:30am.
Battlefield 2
Posted by sam at February 22nd, 2006
I love battlefield 2, I do. But if I want to play, I better have some time on my hands. Like, at least 2 hours.
1:30 hour: loading battlefield 2, connecting to the main server, and joining a game
0:25 min: playing
0:5 minutes: exiting
Woops
Posted by sam at February 21st, 2006
I forgot to renew my registration for gthing.net and the site went blank for who knows how long. Anyway, it kinda sucks because it went down during the google update today. Doh!
It’s back up now, and I’m transfering it to godaddy. I can pay $25.00 a year to gkg.net for all the services I need, or $9 a year to godaddy. Go figure, godaddy had super bowl commercials (so I’m told).
Running
Posted by sam at February 16th, 2006
I just love reading other people’s blog posts about how hectic and busy their life is. That’s why I’m going to talk about my hectic life right now.
First of all, I realize the neglect that has been placed on GTHING.net as I try to get my other project, DIY:happy, up an running. We have a constantly growing readership (already as big as gthing.net, if not bigger), have been linked to from Makezine and others a few times, and have posted some ultra-cool projects. If you haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, please do so. I promise I’ll stop promoting it soon (just after we get a million readers).
So I got up this morning and went in to work. No time for a shower or anything. I started working on adding some products to our company website, but got stuck when I needed to edit some images and my photoshop trial had run out. A new copy costs $600, which seemed like more than it was worth just to create some thumbnails.
So I started looking for alternatives. Many hours, software applications and libraries, and one batch script later I came up with a quick solution that does everything I need it to do in a click of a button. It’s nearly perfect but still needs some tweaking. Anyway, that’s a really exciting story, I know - more on that at 10 o’clock. Back to you Susan.
So after basically getting nothing that I really needed to get done done at work, I had to run home and head down to Payson with Jake to fix this dude’s computer. The roads were horrible because Frosty the Snowman just took a huge dump on Utah. Slipperiest (yea, it’s a word) roads ever.
We got free dinner out of the fix it deal, but ended up having to take the computer home because we didn’t have time to fix it there. I couldn’t help Jake fix it when we got home because then I had to run to band practice - where we made some progress on our upcoming album’s art.
After that I had to come home and help Ryan with his computer - we have been trying to get his 32″ flat screen HDTV properly set up as his computer’s monitor and it has proven more difficult than it should be. Bah.
Then it was really late, but I had to write a bunch of posts or DIY:happy so we would have content tomorrow, and I even wrote some for Friday because I might be going to Vegas tomorrow and won’t have time to post on the road.
That is my hectic life. It’s now 3:00am and I haven’t gotten enough sleep at all this week, and I have work in the morning, and I have to get some crap done tomorrow or I am completly worthless. Goodnight.
Desktop
Posted by sam at February 13th, 2006
I have been working so hard on my new DIY site, Diyhappy.com that I have been neglecting my good ‘ol blog. I wanted to share something cool with you guys, though. I have not yet announced this on DIY:happy, but I wanted to test it and see what people think.
This is a really cool way to get dynamic DIY:happy content as your XP desktop background. Try it out and you will probably be suprised just how cool it is! By the way, having a dynamic desktop like this is the wave of the future.
1. Right click on your desktop and click properties (or Click Start/Control Panel/Display)
2. Click the Desktop tab, and click the “Customize Desktop…” button
3. Click the Web Tab
4. Click “New”
5. Add the URL www.diyhappy.com/desktop and click OK. If another window comes up, just click OK again.
6. Highlight the new entry and click “properties”
7. Uncheck “make available offline.”
8. Click OK until you’re out of all that and back on your desktop. You should see a little window now with this page inside it. Click the maximize button and enjoy DIY:happy on your desktop!
You can make your own page too. Follow the above instructions and when you play around with it a bit it will show you a note on how to create your own page.
The DIYhappy desktop is powered by protopage.
Myspace rocks
Posted by sam at February 11th, 2006
VH1 Best of….
Posted by sam at February 9th, 2006
VH1 has really found a niche they’re good at with this whole list shows thing. Pretty much any show on VH1 these days starts with “Best of…”, “Top 100…”, or “Most extreme moments in…”. They’ve really found something people like and they’re running with it.
So I think it would be a great idea to have a “best of VH1 list shows” show. It could be the top moments in their growing collection of best of list shows. They could do “Best of the Best of the 80’s and 90’s” and “Best of the most extreme moments in various styles of music.”
The people on the show could talk about moments they remembered participating in interviews for the other best of shows. “Yea, remember that time I was all talking about Michael J. Fox? What’s up with that anyway, nowadimsayin?!”
That would be rad.
