Walk A Mile In My Shoes - Technology, Web Design, Saving Money
I guess I should have known better. Girl gets into car wreck, girl almost dies, they put a bunch of bionic parts into girl, now girl is a killing machine. How could that kind of plot fail?
I haven’t seen something as corny as this in a long while. Why do I watch it? I don’t know, it’s television; I like television. They could have at least tried to make it not suck so much, but I guess it was too much for them.
Oh well. Don’t worry NBC, you guys still have some great shows on.
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An oil change is a relatively simple thing to perform, or so they say. They supplies are usually the least expensive of what you pay for if you go to your dealership or another auto shop. The bulk of the cost comes from labor and the oil disposal fees. So a lot of people save tons of money by simply doing their own oil changes. To those I say, more power to you. 
For the rest of us, like those who live in apartment complexes, and those who aren’t very mechanically inclined. We need to take our car to the shop.
Dealerships are notoriously overpriced when it comes to basic auto maintenance. Don’t get me wrong, for those 15K, 30K, 45K, etc. maintenance schedules, I won’t hesitate to bring my car to the appropriate dealership. Now when I say appropriate, I don’t necessarily mean where you bought your car from. I’m talking about the dealer that corresponds to your car model. They know your car inside and out.
One thing everyone should know is that I’m a CSI freak:
I love these shows. I’m also a sucker for any shows like CSI:
Wow, that’s at least 13 hours of television every week. That’s 52 hours or over two (2) straight days a month. That also works out to ten (10) straight days every season/year. That’s a lot investment in television, huh?
It’s my version of a woman’s soap opera; sorry ladies. I know a lot of people hate these shows; calling them fake and unreal. Yes everyone knows that it takes weeks, sometimes even months to process DNA evidence. All the equipment costs tons of money and you don’t just pull out that stuff for any John Doe that turns up dead on the street. There’s even mention of the CSI Effect, where juries in real life cases tend to expect all the fancy stuff they see in these shows.
After years of watching these shows, I’ve picked up a few pointers here and there. I mean, they all work off of a baseline of rules. If you follow these simple rules, you too can escape the clutches even the most ambitious CSI.
That’s a given, isn’t it? You can get a box of latex gloves for a few bucks in the store. Stay away from leather: learned that from OJ. Latex gloves have that powdery substance on the insides. It’s supposed to absorb the excess moisture from your hands, but they also have the added benefit of preventing your prints from remaining on the insides.
Cotton gloves are also a great investment.
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As to what possessed me; it’s any body’s guess really, but I did it.
As if I didn’t have enough work to do this weekend, I noticed that that new version of Ubuntu had been released on the 18th; Ubuntu 7.10. There were a lot of reviews about how it’s so much better and makes life so much simpler than the previous versions.
So like an idiot, I dropped all the projects that I had waiting and decided to poke around Ubuntu. I figured, “how long can this take anyway?”. Well, there’s a process involved.
When I got my new computer, I got a 250 GB SATA drive, which I partitioned down the middle. This is my main drive that I use for Windows XP. The first partition is the operation system and programs and the second partition holds data, music, etc.
I also had my old 120 GB IDE that was also partitioned down the middle. On this drive I have a bunch of stuff (files, downloads, movies, music, etc) that I’ve collected over the last four (4) years. I’m scared to throw out anything, because you never know. I think what I need is one very specific hard drive crash (knock on wood) that would just clear out all that data that I think I need.
Now I’m not usually a health nut. Usually the opposite, actually. But one thing I love to death is Muesli. When I was back home and my mom had some extra money, she’d buy me some Muesli and I’d be in heaven. I liked the raisins, oats, and bits of banana. Since I’ve been up here, I’ve actually gone as far as ordering some online. Kellogg’s has an imitation, Mueslix, but it doesn’t quite cut it. After all, it’s crunchy.
I stumbled upon some granola, Kashi Orchard Spice Granola, so I decided to try it out. I paid a whopping three ($3) bucks for a tiny lil’ 13oz box, but I was hoping it would taste good. I got home from the store and dumped some into a bowl. I couldn’t wait. My mouth was practically watering.
But then after I filled up my bowl and put down the box, something felt wrong. The box felt incredibly light and it was only one bowl. Half the box was gone! I was pissed. There was one more bowl left in the dumb box. I picked up the box to check how many were supposed to be in there; it said seven (7) servings were supposed to be in the box. A serving in 1/2 a cup.
