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The shake-up has been shook
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Whoa! I have a blog.
Okay, yeah, I know, so I haven’t updated in a long time.
Well, I was working the corn job, man. And then after that, I’ve been trying to get ready to go to Italy. Which has mainly involved trying to build OpenBSD on my old laptop. Mmm, learning CVS– and not the pharmacy.
Went to the state fair tonight to honor standard Augustal tradition (actually, August by itself is an adjective, just like Indiana, but since I hate that colloquial nightmare– those blocks of nouns that somehow modify each other– I’ll use Augustal, which also sounds like it should be something from Latin America. Wow, I’m digressing like Melville; somebody hire a copy editor before it’s too late!) Started off the evening with a fabulous hand-dipped corndog, followed by a pork tenderloin, onion rings, fresh corn, and then like a pepsi and some ice cream and a lemon shake-up. Yeah, when I got said lemon shake-up, the cashier didn’t see that I had it after it was paid for, and asked the other guy working the booth if he had made the shake-up. The reply was today’s title. The way it was said (The shake up … has been shook. ) was hillarious.
Oh well, I guess I didn’t have any italian sausage or whatever. Unusual, but made up for by the tenderloin. Anyhow, after that, listened to that little band from Ecuador that’s always outside the crafts and family arts pavillion, wandered around the pavillion where they sell crap (I have no idea what it’s called), and then hit up the cattle barn.
The cows were cool as always– I actually saw short-horn cattle for the first time, which are what the first guy named Lamb off the boat in Virgina (mid-1700s) came to manage. But what was even cooler was that subaru had a cutway of their boxer-4 turbo-intercooled car engine in the sell-crap pavillion, since they make some of their cars at that factory outside Lafayette. I’m not that big a fan of subaru, but it was really awesome to see a full engine-gearbox assembly in cutaway and be able to look closely at it and even touch it, especially with a turbocharger and an intercooler, which aren’t standard variety car parts. Also, the fact that they had the kinda-silly-but-still-informative “made IN Indiana” sign at their booth like all the little trinket mongers made it all worthwile.
Yeah, that’s about it.
Okay, yeah, I know, so I haven’t updated in a long time.
Well, I was working the corn job, man. And then after that, I’ve been trying to get ready to go to Italy. Which has mainly involved trying to build OpenBSD on my old laptop. Mmm, learning CVS– and not the pharmacy.
Went to the state fair tonight to honor standard Augustal tradition (actually, August by itself is an adjective, just like Indiana, but since I hate that colloquial nightmare– those blocks of nouns that somehow modify each other– I’ll use Augustal, which also sounds like it should be something from Latin America. Wow, I’m digressing like Melville; somebody hire a copy editor before it’s too late!) Started off the evening with a fabulous hand-dipped corndog, followed by a pork tenderloin, onion rings, fresh corn, and then like a pepsi and some ice cream and a lemon shake-up. Yeah, when I got said lemon shake-up, the cashier didn’t see that I had it after it was paid for, and asked the other guy working the booth if he had made the shake-up. The reply was today’s title. The way it was said (The shake up … has been shook. ) was hillarious.
Oh well, I guess I didn’t have any italian sausage or whatever. Unusual, but made up for by the tenderloin. Anyhow, after that, listened to that little band from Ecuador that’s always outside the crafts and family arts pavillion, wandered around the pavillion where they sell crap (I have no idea what it’s called), and then hit up the cattle barn.
The cows were cool as always– I actually saw short-horn cattle for the first time, which are what the first guy named Lamb off the boat in Virgina (mid-1700s) came to manage. But what was even cooler was that subaru had a cutway of their boxer-4 turbo-intercooled car engine in the sell-crap pavillion, since they make some of their cars at that factory outside Lafayette. I’m not that big a fan of subaru, but it was really awesome to see a full engine-gearbox assembly in cutaway and be able to look closely at it and even touch it, especially with a turbocharger and an intercooler, which aren’t standard variety car parts. Also, the fact that they had the kinda-silly-but-still-informative “made IN Indiana” sign at their booth like all the little trinket mongers made it all worthwile.
Yeah, that’s about it.
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GMT-0500 11:38:00 0506.17 (Fri)
Oh nuts, an update
You’re as bad as I am