Van Persie powered in a spot-kick after Charles N’Zogbia handled an Emmanuel Adebayor cross as Arsenal overwhelmed a depleted Newcastle.

whozawhatnow?

should have a barber named Joe at least once in their lives.

I’m just sayin’

Fine tuning it has gone well. I had to create some splitters out of some wire and quick disconnects, but that wasn’t hard at all. The Radio Shack didn’t have any splitters at all for what I needed, so some ol’ elbow grease and a stunning ignorance of the danger of playing with electronic toys combined to cure my problem.

Now all PCBs can be hooked up, takes about 30 seconds to switch games, the coin drawer works, new locks in that, screen is bright, and all games work with sound now.

MK2 was the most heinous board to get working, but I found a sound board, hooked that up, and about the time I found that one, another dealer I had asked about sent me a couple more sound boards that he didn’t know if they worked or not for a price that was cheap, and lo and behold they worked. So now I’ve got some surplus for Ebay.

The bustamove game had intermittent sound…sometimes it’d work, sometimes not. So I pulled it open, cleaned it with some detergent-water and q-tips (basically the same stuff your electronics cleaning solution is made of) and cleaned the connectors real well. Works like a charm.

Now…time for that dissertation.

Mopping takes a lot longer when both your kitchen and your bathroom are about 4 times larger than they were in the old apartment.

got through a couple of necessary sections in a book on vikings, got a couple pages of notes. Got about 3 or 4 pages of notes from an anthropology article on alcohol in ancient societies as well. Got a polished outline for the entire chapter done now. Before, it had been close, but had been missing one or two things, and a conclusion. Now I’m ready to finish ‘er up.

plus finally got all the joysticks/buttons/locks/wiring replaced on the arcade machine. Finally got the sound working on the MK2 board, and played a bit of that. Good times.

Meanwhile, one of my friends that I made out here has some pretty severe need for prayer, it’s the best I can do for her. Her dad is suffering quite a lot from cancer, and while you’re talking to the Big Guy, if you could put in a word or three for help for her and her kin, I’d appreciate it.

just picked up another class to teach this evening.

too bad it’s already got the book, and it’s a different one than what I use. Also too bad that I don’t have a copy yet.

Oh well, good pay anyhoos…and it seems that I can get a lot of things done when I’m busier than busy…somehow I made it through the second year of grad school while teaching, working at the hospital, and going through two programs, and writing my master’s thesis.

This’ll be sorta the same thing. I hope I can swing it.

so this morning, I let my cat outside. In about 10 minutes I hear a very menacing growl outside, and take a gander out my office window. The neighbor’s cat is sitting quietly on the lawn, while Milly is approaching quite angry. She growls once more and I head out to break it up, but she has managed to chase the cat outside the lawn.

So I take her in and throw a collar on her, so that in case there is a fight, I can be sure that Milly is not amongst the torn destroyed corpses.

For a one-eyed cat, you’d think she’d be a little more hesitant to start trouble.

to err is human, to arr is pirate.

oh snap, facebook. well played!

Beam collision
When the collider is commissioned, the beams will cross paths at allotted points along the tunnel, smashing into one another with cataclysmic force.

Dr. Egon Spengler: There’s something very important I forgot to tell you.
Dr. Peter Venkman: What?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Don’t cross the streams.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Why?
Dr. Egon Spengler: It would be bad.
Dr. Peter Venkman: I’m fuzzy on the whole good/bad thing. What do you mean, “bad”?
Dr. Egon Spengler: Try to imagine all life as you know it stopping instantaneously and every molecule in your body exploding at the speed of light.
Dr Ray Stantz: Total protonic reversal.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Right. That’s bad. Okay. All right. Important safety tip. Thanks, Egon.

maaaayyyyybeeeee they should watch ghostbusters again.

I’m am now roughly $1.50 richer than this morning before I started doing laundry.

I found out that the rattling in the dryer was caused by change getting stuck in the metal rollers. Figured out how to take the top off, loosened the rollers tipped all the change out, and now it sounds like a regular dryer rather than an entire regiment of mechanized automatons.

I am teh roxxorz.