MattPie

Man, are you going to be mad when your dive bars become hipster hang-outs. :)

yeah, a blast. Monday I took a really nice route from Binghamton to Philly (7 hours, all back roads), but it's been downhill since then.

I call it "dating by fire". I introduce all my friends fairly early on. If she can't handle them, so be it. It's just going to cause drama down the line if she doesn't like them. (I can't believe you hang out with that guy, etc, etc,) For that matter, we discuss 'big' things right away too. There's no point dating someone that does/doesn't want to get married, kids, move, motorcycle, etc. It's something of a low-key speed-dating approach. Complaint: I've been in a funk all week. No energy, no time, no motivation.

I got up too late to ride to bike in to work, on what will likely be the best day to ride until April. I'm hoping I can rack up another couple hundred miles before the weekend is over.

I'm complaining that no one else is complaining. It's 2PM!

I'm at work. I don't work second shift. I'm sure two of the cats have eaten the third.

You probably don't want to watch this then. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Spiqpvpuas

Der Kommisar is in town? There was an average looking guy blasting Master of Puppets out of his Toyota Corolla this morning in traffic. I know Metallica fans are in their 30s and 40s now, just seems odd. I have the slackers in my head this week. EDIT: found a video for the actual song that's in my head right now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e36D29--UmM

At least there's a couple people that agree with me. What's even more amusing (or sad) are the folks I know from motorcycling that complain about taxes. All I can think is that if you have enough money to buy a bike and all the accouterments, taxes should be the last thing you're worried about. There are people who end up with my tax money that don't deserve it. That's a given. Much like I'm sure there are people at, say, Wegmans that don't deserve their wages, which I 'pay' with my purchases. But, there are a whole lot more people who end up with my tax money that aren't lazy bums or whatnot, and I can live with the bums if the good folks get help.

My taxes went up $82 this year. I'm not complaining. I have it pretty good, so if my taxes go to somewhere that helps other people so be it. It's all about perspective.

I'm on some awful rhythm right now where it seems like I never get home for work and errands before 8PM, but I can't go to sleep for a few hours so I get up late the next day and the whole thing starts over.

I thought I'd try logging into the board with my Google info using OpenID, but I can't figure it out. I tried my Google profile URL (http://www.google.com/profile/<google username>), and one I fond on the net, http://www.google.com/accoutns/o8/id, but neither seem to work. Anyone have this working?

If they're your bushes, hide an electric fence in them. Enough for a zap, not enough to do permanent damage.

It's complaint clearing house here. Can't find skates that fit. Long-term girlfriend is leaving. Slow leak in one of my car tires, so I have to inflate it every couple days. Left my Thermos in Buffalo last visit. I haven't seen a home Sabres game since the late 90s. I've been to several away games though. Too much salt on the roads to ride my bike.

That's surprising, it's rare that I find a laptop here at work of that vintage with a battery that works at all. That sucks. Not that it helps now, Apple's guide to Li-Ion batteries (what just about all electronic devices use these days) is pretty good. You shouldn't discharge them all the time (like the old NiCD and NiMH batteries), but you should discharge them at least every month otherwise the battery loses capacity. Apple explains it better than me: http://www.apple.com/batteries/

The continuing Complaint Thursday Format. I don't want to have to figure out where today's ports start.

I dunno, I was working from a coffee shop on my laptop while my car was being worked on, that was kinda nice rather than rent a car for the day and go into the office.

I haven't been on skates in a long time, but the heat-and-mold ski boots I have are 1000% more comfortable anything I had before them. I have to think someone is doing the same thing with hockey skates.

Perhaps so you don't have 5 people helping you look up answers?

I rode 60 miles in a thunderstorm (I was moving right along with it) on Tuesday and I'm still cold.

I have nothing to complain about. I make enough money to survive well, I have food to eat, and a few people seem to like me (not on here, of course). What more does one really need?

And Black 47? I'm not sure that any of 311's songs qualify as 'catchy' though.

The grass in my yard grows too damn fast. I'm out there cutting it all the freaking time. :)

I use the back-side of a butter knife. No shavings that way!

My complaint is that no one has started this topic already.