Twitter is Stupid...

I'm not ambitious enough to update this blog regularly, so if anyone wants to follow me, find me on Facebook. What little I have going on will be up there.

BTW, I'm making the prediction that 2010 will be the beginning of Twitter's downfall. Watch for it!

Twitter

I don't know if I completely understand the phenomenon that is Twitter. It just seems the same as a blog or message board, but it limits you to 140 characters. Maybe that's the appeal, not having to write a long post in a blog about what you are up to... rather, you write a quick snippet when the moment strikes you.

I'm going to try posting on Twitter regularly, just to see if I can keep with it (more than my blog). Follow me at: http://twitter.com/adamfogg

Bye Bye Water Filter

See the picture to the right? What looks like a boring piece of copper pipe is the result of my awesome handy-work :) I recently remembered that we have a "whole-house" water filter that we've never changed the filter on. Took a look at it tonight and gagged. It contained some brownish water and a sludgy substance settled at the bottom. Now this could just mean it's doing it's job and keeping crap out of our water, but I doubt it. First thing I tried to do was unscrew it... no go. The rubber ring that seals it probably fused the container closed. I couldn't stand the thought of that filter mucking up our water any longer, but what to do? I could replace it, but I don't want to deal with replacing a filter every two months... so let's just get rid of it! I went to Lowe's and bought a 2 ft length of 1/2" copper pipe, and two couplers. I already had all the other equipment I needed (blow torch, solder, flux, pipe-cutter) from the baseboard pipe bursting in the living room a couple years back. Took a couple hours, but I'm done! I'm sure if a plumber looks at this job they would see a mess, but I know I'll sleep (and shower) much better knowing that thing is gone.

The Great Sell-a-Thon of 2009

[UPDATE 3/3/09] Just want to point out I'm still doing selling stuff, I just haven't been updating this page... so I'm not a slacker! Well, I am when it comes to updating this page, but not about other things :)

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Okay, I'm tried of all the crap in my house. I've made a rule that I have to sell, give away or throw away something every day. I'm gonna keep a log here to see if I can stick to it.

• 1/10/09 - Guitar Hero for the Nintendo DS
  
• 1/9/09 - Ghostbusters Toys
  
• 1/8/09 - K'nex Rollercoaster Toy
  
• 1/7/09 - HP 3200 LaserJet on Ebay
• 1/6/09 - Gave away old CD player and clock radios
  
• 1/5/09 - Put lot of misc toys on Ebay
• 1/4/09 - Put lot of Star Trek toys on Ebay
• 1/3/09 - Put lot of Transformer Toys on Ebay
• 1/2/09 - Put old Moto Q 9c Cell Phone on Ebay
• 1/1/09 - Put G15 Logitech Keyboard on Ebay
  

A Christmas Card

Yay, I haz internets!

Almost a week since the ice storm, Verizon finally reconnected my DSL/phone line.

"How can one little insulated wire bring so much happiness!"
-- Homer Simpson

Power returned

As of 1pm today power is restored. 3 days without power, but we are
lucky. Some places aren't getting power til Thursday or Friday.

Brrr

32 degrees outside, 34 degrees inside.

On the plus side I see a power crew near my house. Please gods of
power give me heat!

Still no power

3 days with no power. It's 44 degrees in the house right now.

I miss heat.

Ice storm photo

Ice storm photo

Photo from the aftermath of the storm

I wish it was snowing right now...

...cause right now it's 31 degrees and raining. All the trees are
covered in ice and I can't sleep because of all the loud cracking
noises their limbs are making every minute or so. Every once in a
while I hear the loud thwomp of a nearby tree losing another branch.

Oh and the power is out, of course.

Takes me back! Hope we get power restored quicker than in Maine a decade ago.

Wheeee!

Fender Strat

I've been practicing the acoustic guitar for over a year now, so I've decided I want to mess around with an electric guitar. So after looking around at reviews, I decided to get a Fender Stratocaster.

I ended up getting the HSS model (with a 'Humbucker' pickup, A.K.A. the Fat Strat). It's brown starbusrt with a maple fretboard and it looks beautiful. Sounds good too.

The Amp is a Fender G-DEC and has a whole bunch of pre-set tones built-in, which means I don't have to mess with a half-dozen dials every time I want to change the sound of the guitar.

Now all I have to do is learn some non-acoustic songs (Blowing in the Wind and Horse with No Name don't sound really sound correct on an electric).

Restringing the Guitar

The strings on my guitar looked a little dingy, so I decided to take the plunge and restring my guitar today (using well reviewed 'Elixir' brand strings). Haven't ever replaced strings before, but it was fairly painless. Hopefully I did it correctly.

Not sure if I like the sound of my guitar now (yes... I did tune it). I'll have to see what it sounds like when the strings get a chance to stretch a bit.