My kitchen was cold, uncle Roger told me about inline duct fans. John Campbell and Dad came over and helped me install an inline fan in my furnace duct. John and Dad rock so very much, thanks guys.


(John stuck on that ball of electrical tape, for added aesthetic value.)

To anyone who gets the joke in the following pics:


I will totally spraypaint flames on and submit it to an overclocking site if you want to write up the story to go along with it and make it sound like I was totally serious about modding my furnace, Basically make it sound exactly like any of those Casemod writeups you\’ve ever read. I was going to write it up but, even jokingly I can\’t get into the mindset to write like one of those wieners.

To anyone who\’s scratching their heads about why i put christmas lights on my furnace:
http://www.overclockers.com/articles867/index03.asp
(that\’s a computer.) Nerds make stupid-looking flashy hotrods too.

-dean

Coolest google search that found my site so far?

Search term =\”bosh flimshaw\”.

-Dean

Normally I\’m the type of guy who loves the cold. I think minus 50 degrees Celsius is the freezing point of that love. Yes that\’s right guys and gals it\’s minus fifty here in Vegreville. So cold that school busses have actually decided to not run, That has NEVER happened before in my lifetime. Usually school busses run non-stop unless there\’s so much snow on the ground that it\’s physically impossible to drive them on the road. My kitchen (which suffers from a lack of adequate ducting) was actually cold enough that you could see your breath. There was slush in the sink. Please don\’t be concerned. my upstairs office is quite warm and cozy, Just remind me to put on my block heater when I head downstairs for a sandwich.

I went to Husky (an aptly named convenience store about a half block away.) and purchased a few twizzlers. I don\’t know… but I\’m pretty certain that licorice isn\’t supposed to make a cracking crunching sound when you bite into it? By the time I walked home with a handful and popped one in my mouth it had frozen solid.

Here\’s a fun thing you can do if your kitchen is as cold as mine. Heat something up with warm water and take a picture of it. If I remember sometime tonight I\’ll take a shower and head to the kitchen for a photograph of myself steaming like there\’s fire within me.

-Dean

So here\’s what George and I did \”today\”

January 22/23

9:00 Packed up what was left to pack in George\’s apartment.

9:30 Picked up u-haul

10 Showered and shaved and stuff.

11-2 Loaded U-haul and cleaned apartment. (took three hours because it was just George and I and he had a 3rd floor walk-up)

2PM -5AM drove through the absolute worst conditions I\’ve ever driven in (Rain, Sleet and Snow…. not even kidding. Plus Fog and Semi-trucks kicking up puddles into my window, OH! and there was a fire… but it didn\’t really slow us down in any way).
Did I mention I was driving in a big ass U-haul?
Through the Rocky Mountains?
So yeah… Slow going at 60kph all the way through… DID I say 60Kph? We\’ll I\’m not sure if we traveled 60 kilometers per hour…. remember this was a U-haul (therefor from Arizona) so my speedometer read something like 40 miles per hour. blah.

5:30AM locked Key in U-haul. (first time in my life I\’ve ever locked a key in a vehicle)

6AM Got the locksmith to open the door 15 seconds work, 45 bucks. Very Impressive.( Locksmiths are crafty people, I think i\’ve found a new and interesting hobby. ) If you need me to break into a U-haul, just lemme know I\’m sure I can do it.

6:01AM Back to the mountains again. This time non-divided highway, joy! additional death chances. With more drifts on the road this time. Walkie Talkies (or talkie walkies, depending on who you ask) are essential stimulants to keep the sleepies at bay and keep tabs on your Caravan mates.

7:00AM Sun Came up to shine in our eyes as we were driving

12 PM 22 hours later, and 12 hours late arrived in Calgary.

1 PM ate some food at George\’s Uncle\’s restaurant.

2 PM Unloaded George\’s U-haul

4 PM took U-haul back to the U-haul place.

5PM sat in a traffic jam for an hour.

6-8PM tried to keep george functionally awake as he drove home through extremely dense fog.

9PM Arrived in Edmonton.

10 PM Set up internet at Steph\’s mom\’s house and checked a few things.

11 PM Posted this newspost

probably about time for bed?
So yeah, I think George and I are a little sleepy.

Any math or times that seem off… Please remember. 38 hours of near continuous Driving/packing/errands. That\’s the point you should be taking home from this lecture boys and girsl.

All in all, we both escaped with our lives. George is back home in Alberta [where the Red-necked (yellow-necked?) Cowboy belongs.] And I can take a nice nap.

So I\’d say this turned out all aces.
George can fill in the lecherous details on his blog.

-Dean

Just thought I\’d drop a note here in case I forget. I\’m off to Vancouver to pick up George and his U-Haul, then we\’re charting a course back through the mountains to Scenic Calgary, where I will spend a few days in the lap of cowboy luxury. If I remember to take pictures, I\’ll post them of course.

-Dean

I made an avatar for Gutterzombie forums, I think you might have to be a colorist to get the gag… but here it is anyway.

-Dean

Someone sent me an online IQ test. I took it and this is part of what it spat out at me.

\”Your Intellectual Type is Insightful Linguist. This means you are highly intelligent and have the natural fluency of a writer and the visual and spatial strengths of an artist. Those skills contribute to your creative and expressive mind. \”

Not intelligent enough to know to avoid wasting time on online IQ tests apparently. But thanks for the aptitude reenforcement. I wonder if these things say everyone is highly intelligent so that they can foist more banner ads at you while you reaffirm your Smartiness?

-Dean

I added a list of music on my laptop to the Miscellaneous section. If you go for that kinda thing.

http://www.deanwelsh.com/misc/library.html

Other than the usual fare, there are some odd similarities between this playlist and what\’s on Dad\’s iPod, and what\’s in Scott\’s CD collection.

I may add a list of Music on my desktop some other time (when I feel like typing in the names for anything currently entered as \”Track 01\” with no album/artist info.

And on the Music subject, Susan Tedeschi Rocks me right.

-Dean

I added a list of DVDs I own to the Miscellaneous section.

http://www.deanwelsh.com/misc/dvdlist.html

If anyone cares

-Dean

Do a search for \”safeway airmiles\” on google, no quotes. See what comes up.

-Dean