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Jan 29
I’ve been doing more posting on Twitter lately than here. My thoughts are a jumbled mess lately. 140 characters is a good limit for me. But for those not inclined to become Twitterers, here are some highlights. And because I love you all so much, I’ll add italicized updates after each tweet, where appropriate.
- Had a nice flame in the fireplace tonight for four hours. Then smoke filled the house. UGH. Never using fireplace again. [And the carpet still smells of smoke. Any suggestions?]
- Hmmm, traffic on AugieShoots.com today is double what it usually is on a Sunday. Interesting. [Someone somewhere had to have linked through, but I can't find any evidence of it.]
- I’m ready for it to be Friday now. [I posted that on Tuesday. It's been that kind of week.]
- Sat in a meeting this week where the presenter had to ask himself questions to give us information. I hate that tic. [So what do I mean by that? I mean that it bothers me greatly.]
- Adobe Flash Installer forces me to quit Adobe Flash Installer to continue. Thus, it shall never be installed. Bizarre.
- I don’t get the point of ReTweets, and I’m glad to see the backlash beginning against them now.
- Is there a retweet hash tag, just so Twitter can eat its own tail officially?
- LOST was on tonight? I used to watch that show. ::sigh:: [I still plan on catching up. I've had to delete '24' from the DVR, though. I'm out of time. This baby thing is hard.]
- Silver Surfer looks ridiculous in a loin cloth. There. I said it. [I normally don't talk comics on this blog, but I can't help myself here.]
- Is it so wrong that it made me VERY happy today to discover that JavaScript does regular expressions? Whoo-hoo!
- (Hey, don’t knock it; “Learning JavaScript” is an item on my New Year’s Resolution list.)
- Favorite part of American Idol auditions? Job descriptions! One Salt Lake City contestant was “Font Designer.” She made it through. YAY!
- Everyone’s happy about another over-the-hill white guy singing at half-time Sunday now? Tom Petty got killed for that sin last year. [Or was that the Rolling Stones? Like there's a difference. Next year: John Cougar Mellencamp, I'm sure.]
Jan 30, 2009 @ 11:58:53
As for the fireplace thing, you might want to make sure that everything is open to the outside, that no doors are closed, no flue obstructions, etc. Might not be a bad idea to give a chimney sweep a call to make sure that everything is nice and clean in the chimney, as there could have been an ash build up.
Feb 02, 2009 @ 06:39:45
The best solution for smoky carpet is to replace the carpet with hardwoods or laminate. I actually laid a laminate in a new home office I had built last summer. I thought it would be ridiculously difficult, but after a learning curve of about 2 hours and a couple of wasted boards, it turned out to be very simple to install myself. Installing it myself saved me anywhere from $500-$1100 based on the estimates contractors gave me.
Carpet sucks. Really really. We have it only in two rooms and a hallway and I plan on replacing those with wood this spring. Did I say I really really really hate carpet?