Kapt Kaos The Cosmic Pirate

I have been listening to KGSR for the past 10 years.  Have not called or emailed much over this time.  Today they were have a discussion on tipping in Austin.  Asking if we were tipping any less, more or the same  due to the enconamy.  As I am sitting at work in front of my email I decided to send the following email.

I have always tipped at least 20% over the past 10 years.  I still do today.  I don’t go out as much as I used to but when I do I still spend the same and tip the same.

It wasn’t long after I sent this in that they read a couple of emails on the air.  This being one of them.  It was really cool to know it was my email that they read!

I have been a fan of  F1 racing for many years.  Over the years I have become more and more disapointed by the politics that seem to get involved with all of it.  I just read an article from GP Update.  The article is an interview with the current World Champion Lewis Hamilton.

“I never imagined there would be so much politics when I came into Formula One. It definitely was a shock and there has been too much time taken up with it. Unfortunately, it is the way the Formula One world works for some reason. It’s much nicer in the lower categories, where all the people are there just to race and the teams are there just to race.”

I think this defines the problem the best I have heard it.  Now to get the politics out of F1 and get on with racing.

Read the full article…

REPLACEMENT WINDOWS:

Last year I replaced all the windows in my house with that expensive double-pane energy efficient kind, and today, I got a call from the contractor who installed them. He was complaining that the work had been completed a whole year ago and I still hadn’t paid for them. Hellloooo,…………just because I’m blonde doesn’t mean that I am automatically stupid.

So, I told him just what his fast talking sales guy had told me last year, that in ONE YEAR these windows would pay for themselves! Helllooooo? It’s been a year! I told him. There was only silence at the other end of the line, so I finally just hung up. He never called back. I bet he felt like an idiot.

Okay, so I am a big F1 race fan and this is just plan cool.  Wait for the end….

El Paso, Texas is closer to Los Angeles on the Pacific Coast than it is to Port Arthur on Gulf Coast of Texas. Port Arthur, on the other hand, is closer to Jacksonville, Florida on the Atlantic Coast than it is to El Paso.

I had run into an issue with my previous hosting company. They had taken about SSH access as a security measure. This crippled my ability to admin my sites. So, I have moved my hosting to Host Monster.

So far everything is good. It took me way to long to get my sites back up but that was my own fault. Just didn’t move fast enough.

Oh well! Now that I have them back up and can get on with this blogging thing I like to do.

Here is the Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational, which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

The winners are:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

2. Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.

3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating.
The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.

9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

11. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

12. Karmageddon: It’s when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, and then the Earth explodes,
and it’s a serious bummer.

13. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you

14. Glibido: All talk and no action.

15. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

16. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.

17. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom
at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

18. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating.

OK, so I have finished the staining process. Now I have to wait 8 hours before I can apply the poly coat. Here are the pics so far.

Before

Sanding complete

Staining in process

Staining complete