'Lessons'
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
I has a couch!!!!
And the guys took away the old one and put it in the dumpster (although I have to take out the cushions) for two $10 bills--totally worth it. My cat is currently freaked out and pissed off because I had shut her in the bedroom while they were delivering it.
Now I have to finish the cleaning I didn't do last night/this morning like I was going to.
Yay couch!
Pretty dress, Calli.
That island sounds like a steal.
I need to get my patio ready for the official kickoff of Grilling Season.
Dude - this island costs less than I paid for my apartment (and is conveniently offshore from the same much larger island where my family's summer cabins are). Want!!
Cool.
Perhaps not suitable to be Buffista Island, but maybe it could be a proto-Buffista-Island, until the real one is ready.
If I had a sailboat, I could sail up there whenever I had a week off....
Perhaps not suitable to be Buffista Island
Well it's not an all-season island. (Okay, technically the island does exist year-round. But that cabin doesn't look winterized to me. We'd have to buy a fleet of Buffista Snowmobiles.)
For Buffista Island, may I suggest this one?
Amarna is currently sprawled out on the couch, glaring at me--oops, no, now she's asleep. She started scratching at it a bit already, but I'm hoping she'll only do that as much as she did the old couch, which isn't too much and didn't leave a mark at all.
From Jeremy Clarkson's review of the Honda Insight for the London Times:
Honda Insight 1.3 IMA SE Hybrid
The biggest problem, and it’s taken me a while to work this out, because all the other problems are so vast and so cancerous, is the gearbox. For reasons known only to itself, Honda has fitted the Insight with something called constantly variable transmission (CVT).
It doesn’t work. Put your foot down in a normal car and the revs climb in tandem with the speed. In a CVT car, the revs spool up quickly and then the speed rises to match them. It feels like the clutch is slipping. It feels horrid.
And the sound is worse. The Honda’s petrol engine is a much-shaved, built-for-economy, low-friction 1.3 that, at full chat, makes a noise worse than someone else’s crying baby on an airliner. It’s worse than the sound of your parachute failing to open. Really, to get an idea of how awful it is, you’d have to sit a dog on a ham slicer.
A fun read, as he trashed the car thoroughly.
To be fair about the CVT, that's how they work. From what I've read, driving one can be disconcerting, but they work that way because it's more efficient.
Well, assignments came out today. I have 3 projects over the next two years and my lame-ass counterpart has 1.
WTF Tino?
Goddamn Tino!!
Does this mean job security, megan?
Oh, I'm not so much worried about job security. Which, don't get me wrong, is a good thing, but the fact that I would need a 50% raise to make the median income in San Francisco does make me wonder if it's worth staying here.