Today, at work, I walked into the restroom and discovered a brown napkin left the urinal. Why? Why? Why? Why would anyone leave a napkin in a urinal to just sit there until a janitor has to take it out? There is really no good excuse for this. The only excuse that might be acceptable involves that person’s dead body laying on the floor next to the urinal, because they dropped the napkin in while dying. Besides that, there is nothing!

Britain’s Sky News put it perfectly.

Why doesn’t anyone make a usb dongle that is a fm radio receiver? Something the size of a thumb drive that you plug into the side of your laptop, then launch some software to control it. I know there is the Griffin Radio Shark, but that is too big and all about recording radio shows.

What I want is something small and simple that I can pop into my ibook when I’m on the train and tried of my mp3 collection or just wanting to catch some news on NPR.

We spent the majority of yesterday removing the carpeting from our living room. It’s a lot more work than I realized it would be. Pulling up the carpet and padding is the easy part. It’s the removal of all the staples, used to hold down the padding, that takes up so much time. There were so many staples to pull out that both my wife and myself have very soar palms from squeezing the needle nosed pliers so much. But it was all worth it. The hard wood floor that was underneath looks really good, except for one spot that has a water stain. I hope to have the time to refinish the floor sometime in the near future.

Hopefully, the main benefit from doing all that work will be improved breathing for the whole family. Quincy has been sneezing and stuffed up a lot and we think it’s probably allergies. So, removing the carpet will help us keep the dust and other irritants at bay. And I hope that this will benefit Mahra and myself as well.

Now, if only I could get the bathroom remodeling finished. Maybe this fall.

Boy, it has been awhile since I added any posts. There are a few things I have wanted to add, but have not found the time or creative energy to do so. I guess I’ll just give a quick preview of the things to (hopefully) come.

1. A few sketches from the sketch book I bought for Quincy a couple weekends ago.
2. The continuing coolness of my Smartphone (music, headphones mod, Bluetooth,…).
3. My return to PodCasting via iTunes
4. Bluetooth headphones… I want some!!!
5. And probably something else I’m forgetting.