So there we are playing with a bluetooth barcode scanner. Some asks what type of barcodes it’s reads, and someone says 3 of 6, someone else says 2 of 5…(do you know where this is going?)…

I pipe up and say “I bet it likes 7 of 9, I sure do” (7 of 9 was a hotty on star trek voyager) .

The barcode scanner actually reads interleaved 2 of 5 (plus some others).

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Having a crap load music, sometimes you forget what you have. This can be a blessing a lot of the time (or an embarrassment, when you have a one of *NSynch’s albums on disk because your little sister wanted it on a slide show). So I was perusing through the lo-fi section of Amazon’s mp3 downloads looking for some new music (I’ll review that purchase later) when an album came up that was at one point held a permanent position in my cd player.

Going back in time, when I owned my trusty Jeep Scrambler and ruled the roads (a local band even wrote a song about me and my jeep). At any rate, it was ‘95 and I was totally into Weezer (guess what my middle child’s middle name is - Jonas). In fact I had to purchase the venerable Blue album 3 times due to loss and destruction. Then I got wind of a band that comprised of a few Weezer members and some people from another band. I knew I needed to give it a whirl.

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The following video makes you laugh.

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So I’ve been going through all kinds of stuff getting my blog back up and running. I spent a bunch of time today doing just that, though I did manage to get off to Village Inn for some breakfast and time with my parents. Yeah I got something greasy and nasty (Boulder Sausage Bratwurst Skillet). But it was a good time.

From there I wasted too much time tracking down some two stroke oil - I was really looking for something pre-mixed, but of course there isn’t any, so I settled for a super cool guy at Checker who explained how to mix it, and even let me know (since they didn’t have any) that Lowes carries it. So I made it over there and picked up some oil and a gas tank (1 gallon for easy mixing). This was all for the snowblower I’ve had for a few years but due to our little garage it’s been spending it’s time over at my father in laws house. Of course by this time, I probably won’t need it anymore (we’ve already had a few big storms). Oh well, I got it into some sort of running condition - I am really bad with this mixing thing!

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