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Chloe is Missing…

For those that don’t know, our yellow lab, Chloe is missing.

UPDATE: 12/12/2008 @ 1:50PM
It appears that she didn’t go far. She was found in the kennel.

Parking Ramps in the Future…

After reading about the Fisker Karma and seeing that it has a solar panel that takes up the whole top of the car, I started to think about parking ramps.

Currently in the ramp where I park, I feel slighted if I have to park on the roof. In the summer my car is too hot and the winter it is too cold, so the roof parking is inherently the worst place in the whole ramp. But what if every car had a solar panel on their roof. That would make the roof the premium place to park, don’t you think?

I understand that this won’t happen anytime soon. The Karma is going to be expected to cost $80,000 to begin with and won’t get down to their sweet spot of $40,000 for a while, which is still too high for the majority of car buyers.

But won’t it be cool to be able to go 50 miles on electricity before the gasoline engine kicks in? How about getting 8 hours of sunlight to recharge before going home? As it is, 50 miles would be just enough for our commute right now.

NXE

The New Xbox Experience landed on my Xbox360 this morning. I didn’t get to play with it too much before work, but so far it looks pretty cool.

This is my new Avatar.

Happy October

Wow, it has been a while.

Since I last wrote:

I got 100% in one of my classes.

My hockey team has been totally destroyed. Twice.

I had a bout of ring worm (which isn’t actually a worm, it is a fungus…) and it is pretty much gone.

Becca had surgery on a sebaceous cyst on her leg. It is doing well.

We dog-sat Joel and Aiko’s dog.

We got the plow for our truck, but we can’t get it off…

Probably much, much more that I am not remembering now.

Becca is Happy

We just got paid for the latest big Tech Rescue job and it feels good to have the money back that we had to front.

We won a bid to install nine new LCD flat panel TVs in a patient waiting room at a local clinic. I had to pay for the TVs and most of the hardware from my own pocket, which was very expensive – almost enough to buy a two or three year old car (nice and good condition) in cash.

We must have done a great job (I know we did, but the client must think so too) because we were asked to look at another one of their sites to do the same thing for them! Solly and I went over there last Tuesday to check it out and it looks doable. We are just waiting to hear back from a couple of vendors to see if we can get a better deal this time.