Carleen and Mike » 2004 » September http://www.huggin.net/blog raising loki in okie land Fri, 25 Jul 2008 21:28:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Surgery , Vacation & How I Defeated the Toilet http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/26/surgery-vacation-how-i-defeated-the-toilet/ http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/26/surgery-vacation-how-i-defeated-the-toilet/#comments Sun, 26 Sep 2004 11:28:25 +0000 Mike Huxley http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=202 I get a wonderful little vacation this week. Well I suppose I shouldn’t say “wonderful”– it is nice though. I have to take 7-10 days off to recover from my surgery on Tuesday. I’ll spare our readers from the gory details, suffice to say, I’ve been in a lot of pain for the past few weeks. It’s only a fifteen minute operation, and I had a similar procedure two years ago, so I’m not really worried about it.

Our bathroom decided to explode last week. First, our toilet was flushing strangely, so I replace the flapper. It got worse. So I replaced the ballcock (the piece that refills the tank). That fixed one problem, but another problem arose in the form of the toilet running constantly. So I replaced the flush valve (the part the flapper sits on), that didn’t work. So replaced all the rubber washers, it helped, but now I had a leak coming out from between the tank and the bowl. So I replaced that rubber washer again. In the process I broke the flush valve and had to go down to Lowe’s yet again to get a new one. Finally it’s working.

However while doing all this I also got the idea in my head to clean the sink drain - we had been having problems with it clogging and no amount of drain-o was working. After undoing all the pipe connections I noticed that, indeed, the pipes were filled with goo. I cleaned these out, and put the pipe connections back on, turn the faucet on - little spouts of water dripping everywhere from the elbow joint. Upon further inspection I noticed that several holes had been repaired in the past and my twisting and turn the pipes must have chipped away the very weak repair job. Lowe’s saw a lot of me that week, not to mention my money.

]]> http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/26/surgery-vacation-how-i-defeated-the-toilet/feed/ http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/22/ http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/22/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:38:59 +0000 Carleen Huxley http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=201 http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/22/feed/ Blogs http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/22/blogs/ http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/22/blogs/#comments Thu, 23 Sep 2004 00:27:58 +0000 Carleen Huxley http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=200 When I get a little weary of reading internet news sites, I like to catch up on current events by reading blogs written by people in Iraq. It’s nice to have a completely different perspective on things. Here are a few of the ones I I’ve been to lately:

http://healingiraq.blogspot.com/
http://iraqi-dude.blogspot.com/
http://nabilsblog.blogspot.com/
http://dear_raed.blogspot.com/
http://raedinthemiddle.blogspot.com/
http://www.blogjam.com/wires/

If you want to help kids in Iraq by donating $60 a month so they can go to school click here.

]]> http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/22/blogs/feed/ Yucky week http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/19/yucky-week/ http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/19/yucky-week/#comments Sun, 19 Sep 2004 17:29:35 +0000 Carleen Huxley http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=199 Last week was yucky. I was plagued with bad back pain on Monday so I skipped class to go see the physical therapist. I missed an in class assignment which my teacher was kind enough to let me do at home. I finished it in haste on Friday while at work and after recieving her email reply with my score, I learned a very valuable lesson. Just because I’m in graduate school, doesn’t mean I’m beyond proof reading. Strangely enough, when I looked through it again, I still couldn’t see any mistakes so I emailed her back and asked her if she could point them out to me. I’m such a dork. There were plenty of stupid mistakes.
I was sick on Tuesday with a strange stomach thing which I’m still trying to get rid of. The rest of the week continued to feel all topsy turby. I think it had mostly to do with the fact that I felt guilty for missing class and work and for forgetting to attend our monthly morning staff meeting. All of a sudden I feel like a very unreliable person.
In other news, Mike and I have decide to host a Halloween party this year. Halloween is Mike’s favorite time of the year. I never used to like it that much but that has started to change since being with Mike (he showed me how to carve my first pumpkin when we were in college). We’re having Hogwarts Halloween Party at the library. All of the staff members are going to dress up as characters from the Harry Potter books. Mike and I are going to dress up as Mr. and Mrs. Weasley. We already have some of our costume planned and with some additional help from my very crafty mom, I think we’ll be able to pull it off. Our Halloween party is planned for after the library party. I’m actually getting kind of excited.

]]> http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/19/yucky-week/feed/ stretching horizon http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/11/stretching-horizon/ http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/11/stretching-horizon/#comments Sat, 11 Sep 2004 22:07:14 +0000 Carleen Huxley http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=198 I’ve been listening a lot to Rachel Yamagata lately. Check her out. She’s very inspiring.

Mike and I had our anniversary last week (Sept. 7). I actually forgot it was our anniversary and Mike actually had to remind me. This is actually very funny because it’s usually Mike who never remembers anything and me that has to remind him.
Last year we were very serious about doing the whole “first year paper anniversary” thing but soon discovered that it was kind of a pain in the butt to come up with a “paper” gift that was appropriate for eachother and that would seem meaningful. So, this year we decided to allocate $50 to eachother and buy whatever it was that we wanted. This may seem like a weak anniversary idea but Mike and I were quite happy with our decision. Mike spent his on horror movies (of course). I splurged on some clothes from an online store called the Bohemian Closet

]]> http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/11/stretching-horizon/feed/ Mitch and PHP http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/06/mitch-and-php/ http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/06/mitch-and-php/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2004 07:22:51 +0000 Mike Huxley http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=197 My brother-in-law Mitch was just here for a few weeks before taking off to fill his head with…whatever Harvard people fill their head with, and during this visit, he took it upon himself to teach me the basics of PHP. PHP is a programming language that, amongst other things, creates dynamic web content. Basically, content the user interacts with, or, forms. Needless to say, lots of frustration, but I learned a ton and I’m having a blast, despite the constant road-blocks I encounter. I have to admit, I don’t usually have a lot of patience with things I don’t understand quickly, but I can look back to my days of learning HTML and Cascading Style Sheets and remember I had just as much trouble with them as I do right now with PHP, and I hurdled most of those road-blocks then, so I know I can do it again.

]]> http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/06/mitch-and-php/feed/ Shaun of the Dead http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/06/shaun-of-the-dead/ http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/06/shaun-of-the-dead/#comments Mon, 06 Sep 2004 07:08:36 +0000 Mike Huxley http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=196 So there’s this movie that came out a while back in Britain called Shaun of the Dead and it’s just getting over here to the states. It looks really freakin’ funny. It’s tagline is “A Romantic Comedy, With Zombies” It’s been making big waves within the horror community and I can’t wait for it to get here. Take a look at the trailer.

]]> http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/06/shaun-of-the-dead/feed/ “Dear George…” http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/04/dear-george/ http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/04/dear-george/#comments Sat, 04 Sep 2004 10:44:00 +0000 Mike Huxley http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=195 Dear Mr. Lucas,

The very first movie I ever remember watching is “Empire Strikes Back”. As a child I loved the Star Wars Trilogy, and my lifetime total for the number of times I’ve watched all 3 movies is innumerable. The Force was an intangible, well, force that every kid at that age wanted to have. To be able to wield a light-saber, move things with our minds or control the weak-minded are all powers I have dreamed of many times over. You created not just a Trilogy of epic proportions, but implanted a dream inside the mind of every child who saw your movies.

But then you had to throw in midi-chlorians. What are midi-chlorians and where exactly did they come from? I liked Star Wars just fine WITHOUT midi-chlorians, you don’t have to explain the Force to me, I just believe!

Also, let’s look at your track record here. Other than Star Wars and Executive Producing Raider of the Lost Arc, what else have you done? Not a whole lot George, not a whole lot. So how come the new prequels have been underwhelming? Why haven’t I been blown away? Why haven’t I come out of the theatre with an ear to ear grin on my face? You had 20+ years to come up with the whole story and the best you could do was Jar Jar Binks??

I’m disappointed George. Episode 3 is going to have to be REALLY good to make up for all the mistakes you’ve made. Oh and by the way, you can take your Star Wars DVD boxed set and shove it up your inordinately large ass.

Signed,

Former Fan

]]> http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/04/dear-george/feed/ quotes and bumber stickers http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/03/quotes-and-bumber-stickers/ http://www.huggin.net/blog/2004/09/03/quotes-and-bumber-stickers/#comments Fri, 03 Sep 2004 19:11:16 +0000 Carleen Huxley http://www.huggin.net/blog/?p=194 Congress is so strange. A man gets up to speak and says nothing. Nobody listens - and then everybody disagrees. ~Boris Marshalov

I’m tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn’t work. Of course it doesn’t work. We are supposed to work it. ~Alexander Woollcott

“Do something good for the environment. Plant Bush back in Texas”

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