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I want to pave highways

I think I would like a job paving asphalt interstate highways. Yeah, it looks like really tough work slinging asphalt with the heat and the fumes and such. But you only work like one day a month!

In Lakeland, they have one lane closed in each direction of I-4. In one night they put down several lane-miles of final friction: two lanes eastbound, one lane west. Then they put up barrels and construction signs to close off the incomplete lanes and left it. It’s been a week. Is the construction company holding the state ransom for the rest of the work or what? Sitting in traffic costs me money. It costs us all money.

Perhaps artificially increasing demand for gasoline ultimately raises prices for crude oil… which in turn increases the cost of the asphalt and the markup for the construction company. How’s that for conspiracy theories?

Shine Hola

There’s an auto detailer up the street from here (Kennedy and Westshore in Tampa) called Shine Hola.

I love bad puns. Hair places always use them in a name. There’s one on Orange Blossom Trail in Orlando called “Hairgazm!” In Jacksonville I used to go to a place called “Hair Today [gone tomorrow].” Not so surprising that I’m now bald.

Please Flush the Urinal

If you think you’re saving water by not flushing, you’re mistaken. The first thing I do when I walk up is flush so I don’t have to inhale the fumes from your waste.

Speaking of bathrooms, why is it the mens and ladies rooms are still separate (in this country)? Everyone is behind a partition anyway. Are women threatened by peeing in a stall beside a man? What about gay and lesbian folks? Should we have a third bathroom option for you? Do you feel just as “threatened”? It’s a silly waste of resources.

Potential New Server

A week or so ago I received an email from Sun Microsystems about their new promotion for the Sun Fire T2000: A sweet “eco-friendly” webserver. 60-day free trial. Ok, I’ll bite.

I filled out the application and didn’t hear anything for a week. After a couple of emails back-and-forth it appears they are going to ship one to me. Naturally, I’m trying to find a way to pay for it so I don’t have to send it back at the end of the trial. This is where you come in:

I’m going to be redesigning my web hosting site and restructuring the pricing levels.

I’m probably going to offer (low) fee-based big email accounts here at proteinspill.com. You’ll be able to get your very own proteinspill.com address with at least half-a-gig of storage. I’ll let you use that for offline backups too.

a few other tricks up my sleeve that I’ll publish here when ready

If you currently have a website somewhere else *seriously consider* moving it to me. This is a wicked little box and you want your account on it. I promise.

Use the Restroom!

What is the deal with people who can’t hold their poop all of a sudden? In the past couple of weeks we’ve had a number of incidents in the trains where our lovely Guests are taking a dump in the monorail! It happens when it’s not particularly busy–so they didn’t have to wait in a long line and the ride is only 4-5 minutes. They couldn’t make it to a restroom? We just call custodial and they come out and clean up. I’m suspicious.

Rubberneckers

Technically I was rubbernecking to get this photo, but I have a blog to post to. I did it for you!

You know it’s bad when there are two helicopters hovering above the Interstate

Each day of my new gig I’ve left my house a half-hour earlier than before. Today was 06:15. Thursday should be 06:00. Maybe I’ll make it with no delays. Hahahahaha. I encounter traffic at mile marker 17 to 12 usually and until today I had no idea what it was: People are watching workers install a guard rail in the median. The rest of the traffic is as expected but it’s not so bad at 7am.

I’ve been learning quite a bit already at the new job so that has me excited. They have a set of very large applications written in PHP and they have an interesting way of dealing with all the code and presentation. If you’re lucky, you’ll see some additions here that take advantage of my new abilities.