Random Updates

I've been very busy, bit of overtime at work. It's been hectic trying to prep for the new school year and distribute technology resources to an entire new building.

Here's another sample speed test, not terrible, my latency is consistent at about 80-90 ms though, thats kinda dhonky.

The cats have been crazy as ever, I've loaded a fresh batch of photos of them up to Flickr, you can find them

here.

I got a new bookshelf and some new lampshades for some lamps, I'll post photos shortly. The bookshelf was a good deal a 5 shelfer at the low low price of nothing. I'd been talking about getting a new shelf and bam right into my lap.

If anyone is looking for a geeky educational job

Grinnell College is hiring a Curricular Technology Specialist.

It involves integrating technology into the classroom, knowing web design, photography, and a lot of other odds n ends skills for that type of integration.

City Witty

Went to Des Moines today, visited a place called In Play. It's a bar/resturant/arcade/kids games with tickets place. Pretty neat. They have a Mario Kart GP2 cabinet that was hella fun and will likely draw me back in. The food wasn't terribly priced for being in downtown Des Moines. 8 bucks for a BBQ brisket sandwich with some fries, was pretty good too. 6 bucks was a bit steep for a Java Monster drink (Monster and Vanilla wodka) but their standard drinks were more average priced at 3-4 dollars.

Went to the Mall, played with the iPhone, feels very intuitive thats for sure. At Barnes and Noble picked up a few bargain books including a Bruce Campbell smash

I usually only buy bargain books there or at borders since it's so much cheaper to order off Amazon with the free shipping n shizzle. I do go look at books I want though, there was a hawt Grindhouse book,

Grindhouse: The Sleaze-filled Saga of an Exploitation Double Feature

It's of course 10 bucks cheaper on amazon, even with their scamocard they peddle you save dollars at Amazon. The card nets you 10% off all books or something, so you've got to buy 250 bucks or so worth already to make it worth your while. And then you know, you feel like you should buy books since you spent money on this damn savers card. No thanks, I'll buy the books I want already discounted @ Amazon thanks. I'll still buy your reasonably priced bargain books though. Got both beer and wine encyclopedias. Even nabbed a couple cat books including one on how to test your cat's IQ, that should be good for a laugh with the Nemo. Overall a good trip, traffic wasn't too bad even with all the road construction.

The Boys Are Back In Town

Went up to Toledo tonight. Apparently Uncle Chris was in town whom I haven't seen for 12 years probably. His hair is noticeably grayer since that time and his beard noticeably bushier. On some vacation trip to a Greek Monastery in Arizona of all places. Told me to make sure to filter my water, too much garbage in the water. As I filter all my water I tend to agree.

Cache Cache Baby

We went geocaching around 4 today and hit a few Caches. First one was over in Rock Creek Park. It was a pretty easy find. We left a Wii Rock sticker and took a red car. Next one we hit was under a bridge. I saw the cache under the bridge but I didn't think that was it because it was way up under there, well come to find out it was actually the cache. We'll have to go back this week and hit it up. The last one we hit tonight was over at Arbor Lake. This one took us a while. It turns out that the cache is about 80-90 feet North West of the stated coordinates. Normally you'll find the cache within 20 feet of stated coordinates based on GPS sensitivity and where someone was holding the unit when they took down the numblers. Took us a half hour to find this one after the half mile trek up the trail to find it. It was pretty muggly back in the swampy woods with this one. Overall a good caching day hopefully we'll get going again sometime soon. It's been like a year since we last went, you'll see our cache count on the badge to the right isn't very high. I'm hoping we can hit 20 before the summer is over.

Sidebars

Looks like I hobbled my sidebar to not slide over my main blog. I may do some more tweeking but this is the final look for now.

Nintendo announce Wii Fit, that looks fun, lot of different activities for the whole family.

The Wii zapper adapter looks real fun too.

Finally

Finally the frackin heat broke. That was real nice. I updated some of the sidebar, there might be some formatting for me to do but overall thats that. I added widget things for my librarything and bookmooch. Both really nice websites for readers. I need to add links to my flickr page but for now you can find it over at http://www.flickr.com/photos/kaltsasa/. Cats are lazy, I'm tired. I'm going to add a couple more things and get my blog roll up but overall this is what it's going to look like. I'm going to go read a page or two of The Dresden Files and hit the sack.

I'm en ur faze eatin ur brainz

We went home for the weekend to see the new puppy. Pupples as I call her. I snapped a lot of shots which I'll throw up on flickr at some point (I'm going to be posting all my photos there shortly). Anyway this shot was hawt.

Changes

I'm slogging my way through creating the new site. I'm completely replacing my old iweb site and photo galleries with this new unified site. I'm debating on wheiather I should make galleries on here or just use flickr. I'm leaning toward flickr for ease of use. I'll be trying to patch links and other things like the skype button and the gamertags shortly but I just got back from music in the park (which had a delightful Jazz band) in Grinnell and I'm a bit worn out from work. Cheerio.

Adapting

I'm slowly bringing the blog back up to speed. I'll be hobbling in links here shortly as well as the old gamertags. Give me a few months I'll get it all worked out.

New Blog

I've decided to create an entire new blog. The old one wasn't cutting it and my hobble code was shoddy at best. Granted I'm positive the hobble code on this blog won't be much better but at least it will be functional for now.