I love the rain

It’s SO rainy, but most of you already know that. I love the rain, the smell of wet asphalt, the sound of the rain hitting tin covered carport outside my bedroom window. I even love the gray haze that covers the sky, the wind and the cold. The whole package puts a smile on my face. Jason and I have threatened to move to Seattle, peeps always tell us “It’s so rainy, dreary and depressing” WHATEVER!! So what if I like that kind of weather. I don’t mind if peeps don’t move there cause of the supposed mass quantities of rain (San Francisco get’s more rain annually than Seattle) If more peeps think it’s all rain all the time, that’s fine with me. Those cheery little sun shiny peppy people get under my skin. We need the rain, it keeps us from taking our sunny days for granted. The only down side to the rain (besides the scary mudsides)… Californians CAN’T drive in it. It’s like watching a toddler on ice skates for the first time. GEEZ, and the media, STORM WATCH 2006,”Los Angeles has gotten a whapping 2 inches this week.” Wooohoooo, and Shreveport, Louisiana gets something like 8 inches on any given DAY in the spring.

STORM WATCH, ha (middle finger extended)

Posted by linuxgrl Posted in: Uncategorized 12 Comments » February 2006

WEEEEEE I love power tools

So my job requires power tools. I help manage an apartment complex and on many occasions I need a hammer, hack saw or drill. To be more specific a DeWALT 9v, 15 torque drill, arr Arr ARRR I can’t tell you how liberating it is to have a “man’s” job. It wasn’t me that thought this job was made for a man. It seems to be the WWII generation (that would be the boomers parents, right?) It’s liberating for two reasons; one the look on the old timers face when you’ve fixed something using your DeWALT 9v, 15 torque drill, AND two (this is HUGE) pulling your DeWALT 9v, 15 torque drill out of a BEAUTIFUL PINK leather tool belt your husband bought you for Valentine’s Day. Life is good!

Posted by linuxgrl Posted in: 8 Comments » February 2006

I never used to be this way…

I used to just get pissed, then drink, get depressed, then finally not care, but now. Look out, I get pissed then funnel that into a more constructive emotion, compassion. Well a PASSION for compassion would be more accurate. I’ve been told to “calm down” or “don’t get so emotional”…I feel my emotion is making up for the apathy I sense. If I get excited peeps might question why they aren’t excited. It can be contagious.

Posted by linuxgrl Posted in: 3 Comments » February 2006

My first post

So here I am, and with some interesting questions/thoughts about posting. Does one post after visiting, commenting, researching, and checking ones email or after. I naturally check my email, then read the news. One usually pisses me off enough to want to vent (blog) OR question peoples sanity (blog). However, it may be fruitful to try the opposite…Come to blog before my mind is f*cked by this world. Like questioning/commenting (bloging) from an untainted, not yet bitter perspective. Here’s an example: I used to have Alternet.org as my home page, but waking up to news of the world really got me down. NOW I have my email as the first thing I see. It’s helped but lately it’s been full of downers too. So I’ll try Lifehacker as my home page OR go right into this here posting gig? We shall experiment…YES you like, yes?

Posted by linuxgrl Posted in: 13 Comments » February 2006