wakeboarding and the help of neighbors

September 17, 2004 by Eric Richardson

Out in the sun again today, wakeboarding out at Canyon Lake. It was great. We got there at 9:30, when it was still a little overcast. The lady at the gate assured me it was going to burn off, and burn off it did. By the time we got off the water at 4:30pm we were all well-done. After accidentally trying a back roll last week, I tried them for real this time. I didn't land one, but I had two that were landable. My rotation's there, I just need to do the little things like keeping the handle on my left hip so that I land facing forward. Next week I'll land it.

I had the weirdest thing happen once we got back. A girl rode back from the lake with me and came over to help me carry the equipment up to my apartment. So that we could unload I parked my car in the little lot next to the building. After unloading we went back to the car and went to back away. Something felt weird. "Are we dragging something?," I asked. She didn't think so. "I think you're just turning the wheel too far." I backed up a little more. "No, we're definitely dragging something." She got out, went to the front of the car, and just sort of laughed. "What is it?" She didn't say. "Just come here."

I stuck the car in park and walked up front. Wedged under the frontend was one of the little concrete bars that are supposed to keep you from running into the wall. Well, it turns out the bar was too short for my frontend to hit it, but a little metal bar on one end wasn't. It had gotten itself jammed into something in the undercarriage.

I tried to pull it out. No deal.

Marieke tried standing on it while I tried to back up. She and the bar moved with the car.

We were standing there trying to figure out what to do when a guy walking down the sidewalk stopped to try and help. The three of us figured the answer was probably picking up on the frontend while someone pulled the bar out. As we were about to try this a hispanic family was walking by. Without even asking any questions the man stopped, walked over to the front left wheel-well, and got set to lift. I got the other wheel-well, and our first passer-by friend pulled the now-free bar out and back to its original position. The hispanic man headed off. The first guy turned out to live a floor above me in my apartment building.

A random predicament, and within minutes all sorts of people are coming to my aid. I love that. That's why this neighborhood's cool.

Googled to Death (Architecture)

September 16, 2004 by Eric Richardson

Hits probably went up because of the History Channel documentary featuring Caltrans District 7 new headquarters. Check it out: http://you-are-here.com/los_angeles/2004_caltrans.html

A Googling In My Pants

September 16, 2004 by Eric Richardson

Sometimes I wake up and thing google has taken over the world. Then I just relize I recently woke up from a wonderful dream. Dang that chick was hot. I am getting out of this computer lab before i go crazy

SWG thoughts

September 15, 2004 by Eric Richardson

Apoligies if this posted twice. I had a 'Netscape moment' and the box I was typing into went byebye suddenly.

You don't know me but I ran across your site when I was looking for something else and thought I would stop & comment.

I played SWG when it first came out but then I gave it up...perhaps 6 months ago.

Awesome game. I love the graphics & the atmosphere.

I miss it sometimes but it just takes too much attention & everything needed more credits than my 'toons could manage. Plus trying to help run a city on Lok turned into a dramafest and I get quite enough of that sort of thing doing the 8-5, thank you very much.

Careful with the Scout stuff: I hate PVP, loved scout and next thing you know I'm 2 boxes away from Master Bounty Hunter!!! Sneaky little game; it sucks you in :P

It's very true you can't really do it on your own. If for nothing else than you can only level your character so far without teaching other people and getting those apprenticeship points [or so was the case when I played it]. I had lots of problems finding the right group. I ended up [and I hate to admit this] actually having TWO accounts that I played at the same time. One BH and one Master Doctor. And some people just take the game way too seriously [I'm sure you have noticed this*lol*].

Truly awesome game. I miss it but I just don't have the time:( I read posts like yours and wish I did, however.

Oh what server did you end up on? I was on Wanderhome. Not the best ping from our Coast (I'm north of you on the map) but I hadn't realized that until it was too late and I was already established there.

grin Let me end this novel now :)

fun with stats

September 15, 2004 by Eric Richardson

Just a fun little graph from data I track in googlefun: this is a visual representation of a huge spike in caltrans building related google hits that happened on the 6th.

Not sure what caused that. I'll have to pump out some other cool graphs soon. There's fun stuff to see when you can see the numbers like this.