Precious Underwear

Spicy Chicken and Tots

spicychickenandtots During the school year I am pretty much the cook, the maid, the laundry service, and of course the pet care.  My wife is extremely hardcore about her job, and as an educator spends a good 70-80 hours a week doing work for the classroom.  I have far more disposable time so as a result I pick up 99% of the household chores.  I am not saying I am Martha Stewart and keep a perfect household, but the shit that has to get done gets done.  Any time I don’t have to worry about one of those chores I am ecstatic.  Last night my loving wife went to meet some friends at a local chain called Ron’s.  While there she picked me up a takeout order of one of my favorite meals ever…  spicy chicken and cheese tots.

I bragged on her on both G+ and Twitter last night, but it means a lot to me… so I am leading off tonight’s blog post as well.  While it drove me into a food coma and I was pretty much useless for the tail end of the raid last night… it was absolutely amazing.  Additionally it gave me a much appreciated break from trying to figure out what in the hell we were going to have that night for dinner.  More than anything I think that is what is worth raving about.  The figuring out things and being a responsible adult all the time… wears you down.  As she commented her “credit card cooks well”.

The Wi-Fi MIracle Redux

Wow-64 2014-01-24 21-51-38-07 Speaking of last nights raid… leading off with a really cool screenshot we took all decked out in our Sky Golem mounts.  I had no clue that damned near all of the raid had one.  Granted this section really has nothing to do with the raid, but it is entirely too cool of a screenshot not to use it.  Today was a weird day, as I said over twitter I did not go through my normal morning routine and as a result you are getting a post a lot closer to 8 pm than early morning like normal.  Essentially last week I mentioned that we had promised to come up this weekend and attempt to fixorate my mother-in-laws Wi-Fi connection and install the printer we got her for Christmas.  So with these things looming on the horizon the goal was to get up there and get them done as early in the day as possible.

Over the week I ordered a Cisco RE1000 Wireless repeater thinking it would do the trick to help piggy back the signal across the large gap between the two houses.  In theory yes it does in fact work, and I was able to get the wireless printer configured as a result.  In practice however it is so insanely slow I am not sure anyone will be able to tolerate it.  On the positive side we have gotten her in the practice of surfing on the laptop out in the addon with a straighter shot to the original wifi access point.  Out there the speed doesn’t seem half bad, in the rest of the house it is slower than dial-up.  I went to download a printer driver and it was going to take over three hours for a 100 mb file.

Precious Underwear

preciousbriefs My hope is that once we get electric run to the RV pad we have placed between the two houses, I can install an additional repeater in our RV, which will hopefully complete the piggyback chain, or at least speed it up.  For the meantime however she can check her ever so important facebook, and she seemed mostly happy.  We ate lunch and then wandered along our way to run more errands.  My wife this year is teaching a forensics class along with a science teacher.  Like always we end up footing the bill for most of the materials for the various labs that she leads.  One of the things that she will be doing a lot of in the forensics class is finger printing, which requires a really fine brush.

During the 80s there was this magical device called the Static Duster.  For the most part microfiber has replaced it, but somewhere along the line my wife found a very small one, about the size of a makeup brush.  Now we both know we have seen a place that sold them recently in a dollar section.  So today we spent most of the day running to every dollar store we could think of.  We sadly came up completely empty, but when we went to Family Dollar we saw a truly bizarre sight that made the trip worth while.  Down the men’s underwear isle, every single package of briefs and socks had antitheft devices attached to them.  Do people really steal that many pairs of underwear to warrant this?  If you notice, it is not just on the package but also there is  one attached to each pair in the pack.  They apparently take their underwear security seriously.

Da na na na na na na na na na na na na…

geekmugs

So here we are in the same place as we were this morning… with only one of these magical static brushes, and ten lab groups that need them.  The last place we can really think to look is the Wal-mart dollar section, but quite frankly after all the running around today neither one of us really had the stomach for a trip there.  There is no such thing as a quick trip to Wal-mart, and just in setting foot there you have to deal with so many frustrating people.  I may be a good guy and run out there tomorrow while she is working on lesson plans.  Hopefully she won’t hold her breath, because that is a serious act of commitment…  however she did bring me spicy chicken.

If you recall back to the junking episodes over Christmas break, one of the things I had been looking for were some awesome coffee mugs… more importantly awesomely geeky ones.  The last place we went tonight before picking up some food and heading home was Ross.  A few weeks ago my wife had found a pair of pants there… and for whatever reason she did not pick them up.  So of course when we went tonight they were nowhere to be found.  I have to get her in the habit of buying the thing she wants when she sees it instead of waiting around.

However while I roamed aimlessly around the store looking for something to entertain me, I noticed these two coffee mugs.  The first is a really awesome classic batman mug, with the symbol on the opposite side, and the other is a really huge mug with a skull on it.  Pretty much to me putting a skull on anything makes it awesome.  My wife however does not understand this, and keeps balking every time she finds a scarf or other garment of women’s clothing with a skull on it.  Quite simply put…. skulls make everything better and this mug is no exception.  Now I have six mugs that I like, and will be proud to use.  So despite a relatively frustrating day, that involved absolutely nothing I wanted to do in the first place… it ended on a high note that involved geeky mugs and a really amazing smoked chicken salad.