Just thought I’d let you all know that Tubu Internet Solutions is now officially an LLC.
That makes me officially a CEO.
Onward and Upward!
Oh, I’m looking for an assistant too if you know anyone who needed a few hours work per month.
My economic stimulus check arrived today. It’s in the bank already.
Also, my second monitor arrived. It’s a 20.something inch Widescreen Princeton. It’s not spectacular, it’s so much brighter and seemingly bigger than my old LCD though.
I’m happy that I have 2 monitors on the desk now – I can see productivity increasing and my life getting a lot easier.
I’ll take a picture of the setup sometime when it’s all cleaned up a little.
So, here’s the plan.
Tomorrow I’ll go get my hair (all of them) cut at my local barber shop.
I’ve not had it cut anywhere else in years.
It’s a small, Italian type place, where, for $10 you get a haircut and the barber (Carmine himself) gets a $2 tip.
It’s more about entertainment than anything. At any time of day (4 or 5 am through 4 or 5 pm, Tuesday – Saturday) you’ll find all kinds of characters.
It’s a good cut too. Shaving cream and cut-throat razor included. Suckers for the kids and dog biscuits for the local dogs.
Yes, I know – you’d think that this post was is a sponsored one. Wrong. I’ll pay my $10 tomorrow and Carmine likely wouldn’t know a blog if it bit him.
Need a hair cut? in the area? Check it out.
If I wasn’t a Volunteer Firefighter in the US I’d be a member of the Royal National Lifeboat Institution in the UK.
Around the coast of the United Kingdom there are volunteer lifeboat stations (of course there are a number of the Isle of Man). Whenever there are emergencies at sea the lifeboats go out to do whatever is needed.
Most stations have the boat launch from the boathouse down a ramp into the water. (see videos after the jump)
It’s kinda like the fire service except not as hot and stuff.
The RNLI was founded by Sir William Hillary
Wha’d'ya think? Nuts?
Something I’ve noticed in my time in the US is the use of the phrase "I could care less"
I wasa raised saying, and hearing other people say "I couldn’t care less" surely that’s correct, right?
Contextually you shouldn’t be able to or want to care less. Therefore you couldn’t care less.
I’ve tried arguing it out with certain Americans and they swear by the "I could care less".
What do you say, think or agree with?
Do you even care?
Anyone who knows me know that I’m not terribly fashion oriented. I’m not ‘hip and happening’ and stuff.
I wear what I have and what is comfortable and functional.
I’m a firefighter, I think it’s a given that any firefighter has a significant amount of attire with station details plastered all over it.
I was downtown the other day, waiting for the bus to go home after lunch. Sitting on the steps of the USX building I heard a voice behind me calling my name. On turning around who should I find but Lokay!
Firstly, it’s nice to be the one being approached, it seems too be happening less and less these days for some reason, also it’s nice to be approached and spoken to by the Lokay!
The clothes part comes in here – he saw me sitting there, thought it was me but needed confirmation. The "Munhall Volunteer Firefighter" t-shirt confirmed it.
Do you have clothes that identify you as you or a part of a group?
So, about two years ago, when moving into this apartment I was excited to see a dishwasher in the kitchen. The Landlord looked at it and gave me a "oh, that thing? I don’t even know if it works."
I think I tried to turn it on once but never paid the thing much attention. It quietly sat in the kitchen, not doing dishes until today.
I was on the phone to dad, complaining about the amount of dishes, left in the sink, for me to take care of. I termed them "the devils dishes". It wasn’t a pretty sight.
He suggested that I get a dishwasher (they have one over there) to which I replied "I have one!" we then explored whether the thing works or not.
After some tinkering and turning the water on in the basement I can proudly, very happily state that I am sitting here on the couch doing the dishes.
However, this dishwasher is practically as old as the hills. The manual that was sitting in the machine was printed in 1987. What’s nice though is that there’s a coupon for 50 cents off ‘Sunlight’. I might frame it and keep pit as one of the oldest coupons around.
I think I’ll running the machine under supervision for a while just to make sure it doesn’t blow up or something though.
Already it’s making life easier and saving water!
‘m loving doing the dishes!
This isn’t news to me but TV Guide has voted Jennifer Love Hewitt TV’s Sexists Woman.
I’m a fan, I’ll make no secret of that. She’s gorgeous!
It’s not all about here chest either (as PittGirl seems to focus on). To me, she’s one of those woman who there is just that…je ne sais quoi. It’s all about deportment, character and how carries oneself.
Do you agree with TV Guide? ho do you think is TV’s Sexiest Woman?
Thanks to PittGirl at the Burgh Blog for bringing this fact to my attention this morning.
So, my upstairs neighbor needs to change their smoke alarm battery.
It’s evidently mounted in the stairwell just on the other side of my apartment wall and either they can’t hear it or they don’t have a battery for it.
I’ll happily change the battery if they an’t figure out how, I’ll give them one and even a spare.
The lonely, high pitched, beep the thing is emitting has become like Chinese water torture to me. I’m anticipating every beep and, being a firefighter, it pains me to know that there is a detector with a battery unchanged.
I thought this warranted another post.
Alex asked me last night "What did you do today?". It’s a simple enough question, you’d think.
It happens that yesterday I didn’t do a lot. Right now I’m dispatching a fire call.
I don’t have a typical life, to say the least. I don’t have a ’9 – 5′ job, I haven’t had one since February of 2007, that’s when I decided to take a leap and focus on my companies. It worked, for the most part.
I reallydon’t have a typical day, that’s for sure. The most regular thing I do is coffee with the guys when I can (my offline social networking).
A day for me consists of typical activities set to no particular schedule. Thusly:
Working at the Police Dispatch desk and random fire calls often mess up my ‘schedule’. Meetings add something different to some days too.
What did you do today? Are there things you have to do on a daily basis?
