Flat tire this morning. Cars are evil. There was a nail in the tire and it was only $8.00 to patch, but he said I need to get a new tire very soon. Maybe I should stop buying used tires.

While waiting around at the gas station, I met a gold prospector on his way to California to mine for gold. He had a fold down trailer and a bunch of tools in the back of his truck. I didn’t know people still mined for gold like that. Guess I assumed that corporations owned all the mines. Either that or they were empty.

I cannot stop watching Freaks and Geeks. A friend introduced me to it last week, I downloaded it the next day and I’m almost finished with the entire season. I think I have 3 or 4 more left to watch which I’m sure I’ll finish this evening. It’s a great show, in an after school special kind of way.

I’m still really loving Flickr. I’ve uploaded a large portion of my 2005 – 2007 pictures to it and I’ve been obsessively geotagging them all. It’s weird to be able to click on a map of my neighborhood and see hundreds of pictures of some old lady’s garden and the inside of her house, a couple blocks away.

Today boredom caused me to attempt paperclip sculpturing…

It’s been a busy week, as far as I can remember. Kids and I went to see Shrek 3 over the weekend. I didn’t like it, but the kids did. I liked the first two movies, but this one was just weak in my opinion. We went Geocaching before and after the movie. One of the geocaches involved a mile long hike into the woods, a PB&J picnic on a log, and then another mile out. We actually met the guy who placed the geocache there. He was there checking up on it and noticed us taking it. He said he’d also been to our geocache before.

It seems like a lot more has happened in a week, but somehow I’m forgetting it all. Stupid memory. This morning I cleaned out my answering machine, which mostly had messages on it from 2005. I copied a lot of them to mp3, which is here. A voicemail that I left for The Mediocre Show was played on their show. Fast forward to 27 minutes and 25 seconds on this file:

http://media.libsyn.com/media/mediocreshow/mediocre95.mp3

Or just listen to the whole show. It’s one of my favorite podcasts. Oh yeah, Trevelyn from the PLA Forums sent me a box full of great stuff! A Pez dispenser, some PA lotto tickets (I haven’t checked to see if they’re winners yet), a Fon router, a telephone handset modified to work on a cell phone’s jack, a Verizon pay phone card, some blank (I think) magnetic stripe cards, a Rolex watch, a security badge and whistle, and just a bunch of weird miscellaneous stuff. Thanks, Trevelyn!

I’m using Flickr now for my photos. We’ll see how long that lasts, but that’s where I’m putting my pictures for now. Here’s my Flickr page: http://www.flickr.com/photos/52904685@N00/.

Went out with Angela again last night. We went to play Bingo for several hours! It’s the first time since grade school that I’ve played Bingo. It was fun. A very fast paced game, though. Neither of us won anything but this old lady at the next table won 3 times. On her last win she got $1,000. After Bingo we went to a nickel arcade and played a bunch of games and won a bunch of tickets. She was a funny old lady and talked to herself a lot. After one of her wins she was counting all her winnings, saying “I’ve never seen so much money in my life!”

Today I sold buttons at the Corvallis flea market. It went worse than Eugene. I ended up making $5 or $6 for the day. Since my table was $15, it was a complete loss. Oh well. The good thing was that I had a fun time talking to the lady at the booth next to me. Her name was Suzanne. She took my number and said she’s going to call me next time she’s in Albany.

Tonight I’m going out to some bar & grill with Eva.