First of all, my A/C is pretty much totalled. Apparently when they put the new coil in last year, they put the wrong size in (a 4 ton coil into my 5 ton system). This resulted in my blowing out the fan motor (which they replaced a few weeks ago) and, with the bad motor, running liquid instead of vapor through the compressor - destroying that too. Anyway, damage = $3700. Luckily, its covered by my home warranty. Though I can upgrade to a much MUCH better system (way more energy efficient) for about $5000, so if I cash out on the damage and pay the difference, I can get a new A/C. So, I have some thinking to do, luckily this is the middle of winter.

From some random trivia I had e-mailed to me today: If you were born in Los Alamos, New Mexico during the Manhattan project (where they made the atomic bomb), your birth place is listed as a post office box in Albuquerque.

Another piece of stupidness: 5 hunters were gunned down in a dispute over a prime hunting spot. And, if you're just aching to practice your markmanship, check out Live Shot. So, they've got this gun set up on a pivot and a web cam through the site - and you can sit at your PC and aim it at paper targets. No joke. Its set up somewhere in Hill Country. This is one thing I love about Texas - its completely predictable. I read an article about it and I thought to myself "That must be in Texas" and it was.

Someone convince my Aunt Diane its worth waking up early on Thanksgiving Day to do the Turkey Trot race with me!

And, the game of the week: Type each single letter of the alphabet in the address bar of your browser and list something that the auto-complete function pulls up.

A is for ACLU
B is for Badger, badger, badger
C is for CNN
D is for Diplomat's Blog
E is for End of the World cartoon
F is for Feminist Majority
G is for GTCrows
H is for Houston Realtime Traffic Map
I is for In the Agora
J is for nothing
K is for nothing
L is for Live Shot
M is for Mechanical Engineering at Rice
N is for NASA Watch
O is for Ostelli Online (Italian Youth Hostels)
P is for Phi
Q is for Quixotic Pixels
R is for Run Washington
S is for Sarah
T is for Talking Points Memo
U is for U.S. Sailing
V is for Vet City
W is for Washington Post
X is for Xanga - Jo's Blog
Y is for Yahoo!
Z is for nothing