Miscellany

There are five types of gluttony according to Thomas Aquinas:

• praepropere - eating too soon
  
• laute - eating too expensively
  
• nimis - eating too much
  
• ardenter - eating too eagerly
  
• studiose - eating too daintily

Also, Jack The Ripper claimed his first victim today, 116 years ago.

Random thoughts

Since I've lost a little weight and am back on the exercise wagon, my arms have gotten a bit leaner. I can now see my PROGRAMMING MUSCLES. D00d my programming muscles are cool, they are right on top of my forearms, just behind my wrists. I will climb Mount Awesome with my programming muscles.

And another thing - why isn't there a feature in my web browser that'll let me automatically refresh a page? I mean geez, it's got to be stupid simple to put a little text box where I can enter "120" and a checkbox that says "refresh every XXX seconds".

Dirty Mind!

"There's only so much a support technician can do to keep a partner satisfied."

WORST LAUNDROMAT EVER

I was just robbed of ten dollars by the worst laundromat I've ever been to. The Maytag Coin-O-Matic in Orleans sucks so much ass not even light can escape. The machines are all older than me, half of them have "out of order" signs, half of the remaining dryers without signs ALSO don't work, they charge $2.00 a wash and $1.75 for 29 minutes of drying, and it doesn't even have a coin changing machine!!

There's a sign that says "use public restrooms at the bowling alley next door" and the freaking bowling alley has a sign that says "BATHROOM FOR CUSTOMERS ONLY!!". Luckily the bowling alley has a coin machine, but I'm sure the guy who runs the alley is pretty pissed off by the dickwad who runs the "coin-o-matic".

So I came home with half of my laundry still pretty much wet. ARGH.

In other news, I have leads on two apartments that will allow cats. One of them sounds pretty good, the woman I spoke with is looking for a good long-term tenant, and I think the apartment is actually right on or around Main Street because it's over a doctor's office (not sure if he's a dentist or eye doctor, but I know he employs lasers in his work). It sounds like it's in a pretty old building though, so it may not have the amenities I want. The second place is actually a summer house owned by this "snowbird" couple who only want to rent it to me for nine months. It's a 3BR and it has a W/D on site and they'll let me keep a cat... but shit, I don't want to have to move my crap out again in May.

So the hunt goes on.