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The 03/31/06 episode of The Chair and Automan is out. Download the MP3 directly here. Or better yet, get a podcatching client and subscribe to this podcast here. Or check out my Odeo channel.

In this episode:

I understand that I sound like I’m in a can. I’m trying to fix that.

I talk about my first attempt at a podcast on the Mac, about loving it despite a few issues, about video podcasts that I like, about HBO sucking and about the Mac helping me to become a better Ebay sniper. And I play some songs.

The links:
rx
E. Rich
Rosey
Apple
Rocketboom
Ask A Ninja
Tiki Bar TV

Audio feedback/promos are always welcome at jaslusher AT gmail DOT com.

The 03/28/06 episode of The Chair and Automan is out. Download the MP3 directly here. Or better yet, get a podcatching client and subscribe to this podcast here. Or check out my Odeo channel.

In this episode:

I talk about my dusty podcast, Uplifting, the rover woes, my goddaughter’s cheerleading, renting minivans, Hondas and my life being a blur. And I play some songs.

The links:
Themselves (not a direct link, you have to look around a bit)
Ruskabank
The Movement
Uplifter.org

Audio feedback/promos are always welcome at jaslusher AT gmail DOT com.

I’m still playing around with my newfound Mac and video knowledge and here is another treat for baby-viewing pleasure:

This is JD at Christmas time.

This is my first ever live blog from an event. There are five of us here playing with various things, including trying to make my cheapy ebay camera into a webcam. It is supposed to do this on it’s own, but you know how these things go. I’m learning a number of things already and I’m going to try an experiment.

Here is an attempt to imbed a QuickTime movie into a post:

And yes this this the movie from this post. Note: you have to have a QuickTime plugin for this to work.

I’m back at the beach. Quick turnaround time, eh? This time I’m in town for the first ever Uplifter Carolina meeting. If you wanna get in on some geek stuff, stop by. I’m excited by the whole thing.

I picked up the Rover on the way here after coming to the conclusion that it’s woes were worse than I could fix in the yard. Turns out I needed to get the heads remilled. That’s a huge bummer. I’ve had two Rovers now and both have needed internal engine fixes at less than 100k. For all the good things I can say about them, that’s not one of them.

It does run sweet though.

We got back from a weekend trip to Myrtle Beach, it was great. It started out as a weekend jaunt up there to see my god-daughter, Ana Taylor, in a cheerleading competition. It turned into a big family vacation. I got to see Chaun and Taylor and had breakfast with my brother on the way out of town. Of course, the time spent with each of them could have been 10 times longer and I would still have wished for a bit more. But seeing them some is better than not seeing them at all.

My next podcast (which I’ve been far too lax in putting out) will give all the details of my ineptitude in figuring out Myrtle Beach geography.

I would say that it’s good to be home, but really it’s not. I could have stayed for a few more weeks. That, and Marilyn had to turn right around and head to Atlanta tonight. I start my “hell week” at work tomorrow, so the kids are staying with her folks. Here I am all alone in this house and it already sucks.

C’mon Tuesday night.

Bullet Called Life has a Rock Shop. Go get yourselves some Bullet Called Life schwag. I’m getting mine pronto. They also have an EP available from cdbaby.

I’ve got everything back together, I just didn’t have enough time to test it out properly before work today.

I started it up for a minute and it sounded good, but again, it takes more than one minute of run time to declare success.

I’m going to drive her around in the morning for a bit and see what’s up.

I know everybody tends to think that their particular chirren are phenomenal in some way. But I tell you what, Emily may just have some innate baseball talent.

A few months ago she was throwing a ball to my brother. They were little overhand laser shots. Dave and I were both impressed by the throwing arm on this 3 year old girl. She was throwing smoke at him whilst paying more attention to Gracie (his dog).

Today we broke out a T-ball set that Marilyn had bought for her. Now granted, this is an oversize plastic bat and an oversize plasic ball. Let’s balance that with 3. years. old.

She hit the ball in the air all but 2 times. A couple of the hits went an easy 30 feet. I was standing a good 20 feet in front of her and I caught several balls at my chest. We tried to take some video of it, I will see if it turned out and show you what I’m talking about.

Someday there might be a woman in the major leagues. You never know.

UPDATE: Check this out (QT movie). What she said is “That was a fat one” and then “Stand back.”

No Intake

Originally uploaded by jaslusher.

When I was ordering the spark plug wires for the Rover, the site told me I needed to buy an upper intake gasket.

I proceeded to do 2 things wrong promptly after that. First, I decided to interpret that as only on the Range Rover models (they have the same engines). Second, I decided to check just in case, and then decided that since I could touch 4 of the wires, I could probably get them all.

Wrong and wronger.

Note to self: When the guys that own the site name roverparts.com tell you something about your Rover, you should listen. Closely.

So now I’m waiting on the gasket to get here before I put this upper plenum back on. I think I will try to put this time to good use and clean al the carbon out of the plenum while it is off.