100000

Well today marks a milestone in my life…when I leave work and drive home today, my car —a bright red 1998 Honda Civic EX coupe, will roll over 100,000 miles.  So what you say?  Well, it's significant for me because this is the first time I've ever had a car long enough to actually get to this point.  The closest I've previously been was Nissan Pulsar EX (1986/87?) that I kept to I believe 77k.  Other than that I did have a purple 1993 Honda Civic EX that was in my possession until about 68k.  At that point it became my ex-wife's property.  The last I knew my former in-laws were still driving it and it had 130k on it.  I loved that car and was sad to see it go.  I've always been very please with Honda product, thus why I bought another one this time around.  I've also had a couple of Acura Integra's on lease a decade ago that were absolutely wonderful.

Anyhow, this trivial event is someting new for me. Whoop-T-Do!  Even being a 100k this car is still very solid and reliable.  It's got to go at least another 50k which shouldn't be an issue as I've very good about maintaining my cars.  Ideally it would be kind of cool to see if I can get to 200k with it, but time will tell.  At the rate it would mean driving it until 2012.  We shall see.

Buried Treasure Bandits

Today we meet Barry Billcliff, 27, of Manchester, New Hampshire, and Timothy Crebase, 22, of Methuen, Massachusetts (Dead link, see below).  Here's my rough guess at the conversation that lead up to their arrest:

TC: Dude, roofing this house isn't paying us enough.  Lets just steal these old coins and money while we're here!
BB: Yeah, we can pretend we dug it up like buried treasure in the backyard!
TC: That's cool!  We'll be like famous and stuff.
BB: Yeah, who'll ever know we stole it.
TC: Yeah.
[Fade to black as our two clueless morons crack warm 40oz. beers.]

6/27/05
Ordinarily an entry such as this would have likely faded into history and that dead link above would have remained just that.  But this one is no longer ordinary!  Let's start with a better and fresher link of the story.  And then we have the comment below, allegedly from Barry himself!  You might need to read it a couple of times though being literacy apparently isn't Barry's forte.  Let's hope he's a better roofer.  As for addressing his comments, I'll take that that up below (when I have the time).  Welcome back to the limelight Barry!  You should have just let the sleeping dog lie.  ;)  

Words To The Wise

Words To The Wise

I've seen the wall
I've seen them fall
I've seen the light
I've seen them bend their little minds
Surrendering without a fight

I've done them all
I've done them twice
I've seen it all
Inside my mind

You think you should do it
I tell you you're wrong
You can't understand it
It's stronger than you
I hope you listen
To what I'm telling you

3/24/1982

We have a name!

A while back in the My Job post I mentioned that the naming of my department at work was still up in the air.  The leading contenders were:

  • Quality Engineering
  • Engineering Standards & Practices
  • Engineering Standards
  • Engineering Practices
  • Jackass & Tony
After much trial and tribulation, the name "Engineering Practices" was chosen to be the winner.  What does this mean and what are the ramifications?  Doesn't really mean much other than I can now get my business cards.  My day to day responsibilities haven't changed.  It's just that we are no longer a department "to be named later".  All together now: YAWN  ;)