Siliconchef by Brian Richardson

I have joked that my new home is a software project … every time a problem comes along, we just push back the release date.

Due to the appraisial value, the bank cannot loan me enough money to cover the builder’s quoted price. According to my loan officer, who has built three houses in the Loganville area, my builder’s quite is way off base. He’s recommended four builders I should talk to. So Suzan and I have to start all over again … look for a new builder, check out his work, go though plan modifications. Plus I need to patch a few problems on the current house which I was going to ignore, based on the assumption I wouldn’t be in the house that much longer.

I am now officially changing the name of the new home from “Geek Farm 2.0″ to “HouseXP”. If I ever get to the point where I name it “Geek Farm Forever”, shoot me. Maybe I can outsource this to India …

Friday night was nice … do my little TV show, hang out with Amy & Jeff, eat at Doc Chey’s, relax.

Saturday & Sunday … chores. I don’t have a lot of “heavy lifting” to do, but Suzan and I have things to do about the house. Take mower to repair shop, trim weeds, finish goat feed shelter, repair barn gutters (again). The fun never ends at the Geek Farm.

This morning was bad, this afternoon was just odd …
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Too much time on-line today.

I spent a few minutes re-establishing that SideStep.com is better than out so-called “discount travel agent”, saving one of our salesmen the trouble of going to Japan via Detroit & LAX to save a few hundred bucks.

Folks with a few minutes to burn should check out the Tech Support video clip from the 07-11-2003 show. It’s one of the funnier things that’s ever happened to me on public access television.

My live on-line and on television will merge on Friday, August 1st. The topic on Tech Support will be blogging. That should be interesting.

All the news that fits …

Tech Support, the public access computer show that I co-host every Friday night, finally has a website. Check out the video clips page for some amusing content.

I’m still waiting for Adam Selzer’s new CD to come out … I play drums on many of the tracks. In the meantime, laugh at his amusing poems & stories.

I’ve been listening to Carbon Leaf echo echo at work (thanks to Kat for the MP3s). I’ll add that to my list of CDs to purchase (take that RIAA … I didn’t even have to use a P2P network!).

Suzan and I saw Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl last night. It’s a great movie, but not as impressive as the riced car we saw … white Honda Civic, lowered with green neon, and covered in fake snow!!!! Sorry Amy, but I didn’t get a picture.

Yesterday my biggest problem was trying to mop up spilled chai from my passenger seat before the sun made my car smell like day-old steamed milk.

Today I have to worry about about the health of my grandmother and my wife’s cousin Jeff.

My grandmother is not recovering well from a fall she took just before my brother’s wedding. She still requires a nurse to visit twice a week, and has to see the doctor very often. Suzan’s cousin Jeff was found unconcious in a hotel room last Friday. He’s now in the ICU at an Atlanta hospital with a resistant-strain infection, along with complications from Type I diabetes.

This may become my new mail signature …

Yeah, “self-directed” is a good word. It doesn’t have any of the negative connotations associated with “stubborn” or “doesn’t take commands very well.”
- Linus Torvalds