Two Cents and a Thousand Words

This weekend I’ll be heading to Houlton and beyond for job training tomorrow and Friday and for exploration over the weekend. I’m not sure where exactly I’ll visit, but I’d like to go at least to Caribou and maybe (maybe) make Fort Kent. Sometime I want to get to Allagash to see the Wilderness Waterway, but that’s just so far over that I’d need a separate trip. I still have a lot of territory to cover, but we’ll see how far I get on this one. I’ll be away until Sunday afternoon. I’ll come back with pictures; as I’ve said in other places, it’ll probably all be trees, potato fields, and maybe some meese, but we’ll see.

So… I had another conversation with my parents last night about moving into a bigger/better house. The one we have now (and have had for 18 years) is fine, but there are an increasing number of problems with it (wet basement, water leaks, etc.). Now that my parents know that I’m really not opposed to living in a new house, we might actually do something about it.

We’re getting new kitchen cabinets sometime in the next couple of weeks and hopefully (this has been on hold for a couple of years thanks to a non-responsive contractor) our new deck door will be fitted in. The kitchen floor’s getting kind of soft, too, in places, so we’ll need to have some of that replaced. After we get that resolved, we might consider moving.

I really am beginning to consider the option. I mean, the house we have now is really too small for what we need and it’s also very dark. As I told my parents yesterday, it kind of depresses me and I like my dorm room better than my house; there’s dark panelling in a few places at home and it really makes it feel small. If we can find a nice (not big, just nice) house with a couple/few more rooms than what we have now and also one that is newer and has less problems, I think there’s a good chance we’ll pack our bags for the first time since I was one.

I’d like to stay in my town; I really like it. There are a lot of new developments going up with some houses upwards of $400k, and that’s just not for us. They’re huge houses and we don’t need that. We just need some sort of extended ranch-type house that has some room for storage, some better closets, hopefully a dry basement, and other stuff like that. I think we’ll be able to find something like that.

I did just about 10 hours of driving yesterday and pretty much explored everything there is to see Down East. I took +/- 140 pictures, so I’ll put some of them up soon.

By the way, you can now get to the blog by going http://blog.lighthouse.rackhost.net… shorter URL hopefully coming soon.

So the talk of Leoville lately has been that they will be changing the TSS set around some. Interestingly enough, that’s not the biggest news right now.

The biggest news does have to do with TSS, though. I’ve been trying off and on to find the blog of Kevin Rose, ya know, the guy who’s in the Nook on TSS, Rose Buddy’s buddy. Anyway, I know I could’ve asked someone but I kinda like finding these things for myself. Anyway, point of the story: kevinrose.livejournal.com. He got a frickin’ LiveJournal. Wimp.

Sure, I have a LJ, too; I pretty much use it so I don’t have to be called Anonymous on other peoples’ LJs. But c’mon, he’s gotta be a little more techie than that. At least run a Moveable Type one or something, sheesh.

PS: the Kevin/Morgan thing makes a lot of sense, seeing as how I’ve always noticed they really get along on the JibCam before the show.

Forget All Your Base… now it’s all about Elephant Toes. I don’t really want to spend the time figuring out how it all started (I might tomorrow, but who knows), but all-in-all it’s pretty much trying to get your site/blog to be the #1 listing in Google for ‘elephant toes’ by providing a bunch of links to your own site and naming the links ‘elephant toes’ or something like it. Ooh, there’s a way to foil Google! [gasp] Oh, well, I’m not the type of person to do these little fad things. I’ll just take my elephant toes and leave.

From this week’s Best Buy newspaper supplement:

…but just enjoy your life while you don’t have broadband, because after you get it, you won’t have one anymore. Trust me, I know.

So I’m staring at my iPhoto Library and see that I have 1394 pictures.

My first thought: FireWire!

I went on a nice, peaceful ride to Eddington to find a mountain today… and ended up in Ellsworth. I didn’t get lost; the urge to explore was just strong within me. I learned today though that old dirt roads don’t sound good when they hit the bottom of your car. [ripppppppp] Guess I’ll be more careful from now on. Check the Exploring section for pictures.

And to prove that I do in fact read e-mails about the site, I’m looking into making e-cards out of some or all of the pictures I put up in that section. We’ll see how that turns out. I’ll be coding all night. Or maybe sleeping. Who knows.

Grrrrrr.

All signs seem to indicate that I can’t receive e-mail for some reason. Haven’t gotten a piece all day: no spam, no love letters… Anyway, I guess if you have anything urgent to send me, go through NiKnight3@yahoo.com for now. I just hope I didn’t miss any important e-mail today. [sigh]

In other news, I updated the site. Check out what I did on the New page. Tell me what you think.

For any outta-statahs who might be a bit confused, no, we don’t grow lobstahs on faahms.

(actual sign seen on Route 3 to Bar Harbor)