Productive Explosion - Today, a transformer exploded (making quite a bang) in SOMA. The power for our entire block went dead, so I went home early and used the time to make a few "during business hours" calls and dropped my car off for some well, well overdue maintenance. Yay, being productive!

Early Birthday Present

I’m a big fan of silhouette work (got one of my own in the gallery here), so this poster appealed to me quite a bit when I first saw it — plus it’s for a “Jason Statham Looks Angry And Kills More People” movie. Win!

I happened to be with my girlfriend at the time who is the biggest movie geek I’ve ever known. She’s been evaluating and shopping around for some posters of her own and popped this one onto the order as an early birthday gift. She’s awesome :)

Wordbooker

My blog now posts directly to Facebook, and if everything works right, comments from my blog will sync to this topic, and comments on FB will sync to the blog. Very cool stuff. If you’ve got a self-hosted WP blog, check out Wordbooker.

Wut

Wut?

Workspace

Where I do my hometime computing

Triplets

Even better than twins ;)

Moon

Managed to get a really nice snap of the moon. Tweaked a bit with PS to clean up levels/etc and it came out pretty nice.

Load Out

Ruger MkIII .22
HK USP .45
Kimber .45
Remington 870
KelTec SU-16CA

Chilaxin

Enjoying a nice sunbath and obscuring my mouse :)

Back Up And Running - After getting hacked, I took the site down till I could get things together. Then I got lazy and just didn't put it back up. Got around to it today.

Golden Gate Belly

Taken atop Fort Point

Absurd

Being gone 2.5 years and things change a bit. I was caught off guard by this today.

My car registration needs to get “up to date” with the DMV. I tried to do it online, but the system just gives me errors and non-sense. So, yay, time to go visit the DMV.

I tried to schedule an appointment, but waiting over 40 days for the next available slot seemed ludicrous. I can spare the 2-3 hours and just go wait in line, I don’t want to wait nearly two and a half months to save me that much time; that’s just silly.

So, I cleared out my Saturday to go do this — wrong! After checking out several offices on their site and a quick google search, it was revealed to me that the DMV no longer operates on any weekends and they’re closed most fridays as well.

How incredibly dumb.

I have to take off work to go to the DMV.
And while I am not working, I am not getting paid.
And while I’m not getting paid, I’m not paying taxes.
And when I’m not paying taxes, the DMV isn’t getting any funding.

So, due to budget issues, I can now only go to the DMV on days which would continue to hurt their budget. Genius!

A short letter:

Dear DMV,

I understand times are tough and the Governator is ‘cuttin ur bugets’, but if you’ve only got enough cash to be open 4 days a week, Saturday, Sunday, Tuesday, and Wednesday would be ideal days. Then people can keep working and paying taxes so you can stay open, yay!

Thanks,

Everyone who has to wait 2-5 hours with ticket in hand after taking off time so you don’t get tax revenues

Seriously.

 

JM

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