The Life of PhotoJim

Too good not to share:

Rotten office fridge cleanup sends seven workers to hospital... nice.

Alright, so it works. So what has happened to me? I still work at the same places. I've been to Europe (London; the Zurich-St. Gallen-Amriswil area of Switzerland; and Scotland). I've been to New York City. I've been to Vancouver, Seattle, and Missoula, Montana. I gave some insurance and condominium seminars in Vancouver, Regina, and Saskatoon. I bought an Alix 2d3 single board computer and am turning it into my new router, dubbo. I got an old rack mount Dell PowerEdge 2450 server (dual Pentium IIIs @ 1 GHz, 1 GiB RAM) to replace hobart as my server. It seems to be working very well. We got new cars, I a 2007 Honda Accord EX-L and Lori a 2009 Honda Fit Sport. Both have 5-speed manuals. I like driving stick. I got on Twitter, although I don't have many friends on there yet. And a few other things I'm sure.

I've been a neglectful blogger. My configuration broke during an upgrade. Apparently two years have passed. If you read this, then that means I fixed it... and you might just hear from me again.

It's the solstice! (No, it's not the equinox, like a certain radio station is alleging... the equinoxes have equal day and night... i.e. spring and fall, boys and girls...)

In case you were kept in a box under your parents' bed for your entire childhood, today is the day when the night is at its longest in the northern hemisphere (and at its shortest in the southern hemisphere). For people on the equator, it's just another 12 hours of daylight, just like every other day in history, although at noon the sun is as far south as it ever goes there and it will start moving north tomorrow.

There, don't you feel educated?

Sorry for not blogging in so long.

I had the flu this past weekend. No, not the flu that is really a cold... and not the flu that is really a form of gastroenteritis. The actual influenza.

By my recollection, the last time I had the flu was in 1986. I missed the graduation of my broadcasting school class, just after I got back from Kelowna, where I did my broadcast internship. That was a very long time ago. Those Commodores I have in the basement were seriously cool then.

In any event, I'm much better today (well enough that, even though I don't feel nearly at 100% of capacity, I really *feel* well, if that makes any sense - probably because relative to Sunday and Monday, where I slept about 31 1/2 hours in a 36 1/2-hour span, I am as right as rain).

Christmas is but two weeks away. Tick, tick, tick.

Ever think about going back to school but you feel like you're too old?

I went back to school at age 30... but that's nothing at all compared to this man who just finished a law degree at age 91. Wow.

So... imagine you were on the highway in the middle of nowhere, and your transmission failed and you couldn't go forward anymore, but reverse still worked. What would you do?

If you were this guy in Australia, you'd simply go backward. I guess he should have gotten a mobile phone so he could get help? :)

Why is it that whenever I see those signs in the fall that say "Sprinkler Blowout!" that I figure there should be a screaming sale on sprinkler systems?