It's interesting... Sunday afternoon I was thinking about how I havn't really made a whole lot of friends here, and how I sort of shut myself off from everyone. That's just who I am, and sometimes I need my alone time. I just tend to give myself too much of it without really intending to. Then as I was leaving church Sunday night my friend Daly (Is that how he spells his name? I can't remember what the computer at work has for his account, anyway, it said the same way as "daily") started talking to me and at random asked if I had gotten involved with anyone from the singles group and why I hadn't and invited me to a Bible study thingy that some folks had started,
trying to build community. Also went out with him for pizza that night. So Sunday I had someone to hang out with and Wednesday I had someone to hang out with. And last night he and my sister and her roomie and some others went out and invited me along.

Only one bad thing about last night: I am not a huge fan of the sushi at Wicked Wasabi (next door to Metro "coffeehouse" on Broad St here in Augusta). It gave me gas something aweful.

On Thursday I did yardwork for my wonderful sister who fixed me Quesidillas in exchange. I had noticed Wednesday, when I went over to her place for that Bible study, that the weeds were taking over her front entrance. I pulled some and cut the others down. There were far too many to pull them all. also trimmed up some
shrubs and trees next to the house.

Tuesday I fixed my headlight, as I said in my last blog post. Then I found out my AC was leaking coolant. Well, Wednesday was another hellishly hot day, and after work I made my way to the auto store (after going to an Indian resteraunt, ok food, great mango, oddly non-indian staff that I saw) and got another hose for filling the freeon and some stuff that is supposed to seal small leaks. I don't think the stuff did anything, but I also messed with the high pressure valve cover some and found out if I turn it a little it seals up. If I turn it a little more in either direction it un-seals again. My dad tells me it is not supposed to work like this, so I figure something got broken when I was backed into. But since I have gotten it to stop leaking coolant, have a working hose with which to refill the coolant, and it has been working for four days now with good pressure on the line, I am not going to mess with it any further.

So the week has been productive. As well as hot. Except for Friday. Friday it cooled off to about 75 degrees for most of the day. Friday was really weird, as for as the weather goes... I don't understand Friday. But Friday was much apperciated.

I am being rather random in this post, aren't I?

I taped the re-airing of the season premire of Stargate SG-1 last night along with the series premire of Stargate: Atlantis. Watched them after I got home from hanging out with peopel and this morning/afternoon after I woke up. Good stuff. I'm still a little unsure about Atlantis, not a big fan of the new "bad guys" really, they are just too... I dunno... I mean, the Goa'uld were stereotypical baddies, but these Wraiths are just... I dunno... Annoyingly simple baddies. Perhaps there will be more of a development of them as a race later but... They just seem to be there to live forever, be hard to kill, and suck away human life.

And another thing... What is it about the Stargate good guys other than 20th and 21st century Earth humans that they can't figure out how to make projectile weapons? Projectile weapons were an aid in fighting the Goa'uld, Replicators, and now this new race, the Wraiths, and yet the To'kra, Asgard, and apparently the Ancients had a hard time fighting these races, when a good M16, sawed off shotgun, and hand gun can do them in. Sure, it takes more shots for these Wraiths and it needs to be a good headshot to do the job really well, but it does it. And these Wraiths have taken out the Ancients?

Anyway... I'm sure only one other person who reads this blog even cares about any of this stuff.

I liked the part in the SG-1 ep where Jack is interfaced with Thor's ship and starts playing with the lights and stuff. Jack is funny.

Cooked myself a good meal today. I usualy just chunk everything into the pan together when I make my stirfry, but I did things a little different this time. First I cooked some mustard seeds and sliced garlic in some hot olive oil, till the seeds popped and the garlic browned. I removed that, put in some sliced onion and bell pepper, took those out. Added some chicken that was slightly marinated in some
rice wine and soy sauce. Then I added back the garlic and veggies, tossed in some five spice blend, pepper, and sessame seed oil and some minced garlic (yeah, lots of garlic, but cooked sliced garlic has a totaly different flavour from minced, very lightly cooked garlic and I wanted both of these flavours in my dish), tossed it on low heat a little, and served on some rice. It is really nice having all the different flavours stand out, on their own, instead of all being combined into one flavour.

I need to find some real rice wine, though, and not cooking rice wine, there was WAY too much salt in this thing.


In other news: Blogger has changed things up again, this time it makes my posts look LIKE SOME FREAKING IDIOT WHO DOESN'T KNOW A THING ABOUT HOW TO USE HTML WROTE THEM. STUPID BLOGGER, DIE!
- posted by Nick @ 7/17/2004 06:01:00 PM | 0 comments

 
Good idea: Replacing the broken headlight fixture in your car.
Bad idea: Forgetting to watch out for sharp glass on said fixture.

Yeah, so I finaly broke down and replaced that stupid light. It wasn't that aweful and hard, but I did manage to slice up my fingers pretty good in the process and coat some parts in the blood of my labour. Yeah, fun stuff. Now it's hard to type because my right index finger is covered in band-aids. Rock on.

Also found out my AC system is leaking on the high pressure side, gotta figure that one out...

I hate cars. I hate them a lot.

I got it fixed in time to get to the Augusta Choral Society rehearsal tonight, though. We read through some of Rutter's Magnificat and Messiah. Also we read through some of an operetta that Sousa wrote and hasn't been done since the 19th century. He had re-worked some of G&S's HMS for choral use, since apparently the group he had working with him on it back in those days was good on the singing but not so good on the acting (This is according to the notes that were given to us with the score) and then later he took his songs from that and made his own operetta. Interesting stuff. Very G&S, yet it also sounds like Sousa.

Anyway, that was my day. Tomorrow I'll be working, fun stuffs! :)


- posted by Nick @ 7/13/2004 10:23:00 PM | 0 comments