Kicking ass and cutting grass. But mostly cutting grass.

I need to get out there an mow the lawn before heading to work.  The grass in the front yard is looking shaggy.  The dog got into the corn and tore up one of them.  Damn dog.

Still working on jailbreaking the old iPhone.  Two problems I've run into:

1.  When using redsn0w, it gets stuck uploading ramdisk.

2.  I get a message on the homescreen saying that I need to insert a simcard.  I need to find a workaround for that.

Still there

The blackberry cuttings may just make it.  There's a few buds on the larger one that has leaves on it, so I'm hoping it's happy and taking root.

I also got rid of my iPhone yesterday.  Now it's just a plain old iPod.  I'm thinking about jailbreaking it so I can play NES/SNES games on it.

Send forth the rains

It rained pretty hard last night, so I don't believe I'll need to water the plants for a while.  The damn dog dug up some snow peas yesterday.  Aside from that, things are as quiet as they always are around the ol' garden.

Still slogging through Atlas Shrugged.  Not really slogging, but making my way through it.  I wish I could read as fast as I can think.  Still a fine book though.

I'm trying to work my way through this list of 100 best novels.  So far, I've only knocked out 14.  I'd say The Stand was my favorite so far, followed by A Prayer for Owen Meany.  Least favorite was Brothers Karamazov, then The Hobbit.  Karamazov was just tedious reading and unrelated sidetracking.  With a good editing to slice some of the fat out, Hobbit would have been worst because of boring characters that I wish would have been eaten by the dragon.  Come to think of it, most of the characters were cannon fodder.

Blackberries

Today I planted a blackberry cutting that a friend had given to me.  Hopefully it makes it.  So, um, yup.

I've gone back and started a new run-through of super mario wii.  I like the game a lot, and 4 players is a challenge by itself, but I don't think 2d mario games really evolved that much after mario world.  i didn't care for yoshi's island.  It wasn't the graphics, it was that it was both a different type of game than smw, and that the game was incredibly linear from start to finish.

More WC3, not so much gardening today

It's too hot to do much gardening, aside from watering the trees and veggies, so I've been honing my still-dull warcraft 3 game.

Played a 4-player game against the computer as humans against 2 orcs and a nightelf and ended up winning.  I was able to get an expo up, running and protected.  The elves gave me a scare because they did the same and the priestess had about 2 levels on my heroes, but I was able to pull out a decisive battle after walking in at the end of a fight between elves and one of the orcs.  I've had pretty good luck with timing my battles and not getting into three-way fights or getting creepjacked.

Everything's coming up roses

So.  Um.  Yup.  Everything is still growing.  That's what's growing in my garden.

I got back in the saddle again with WCIII and played as humans against elves on Turtle Rock.  Really quick game.  I got creepjacked about 10 minutes in and despite having only my archmage (lvl 2), mountain king (1) and 2 footmen, I manage to fend off the priestess (3) and a couple of archers and huntresses.

After that I just hung around the entrance of their base, killed a couple of dryads and a mountain giant while the rest of my forces built up and finished the job there.

I'm still just past the 1/3 mark of Atlas Shrugged.  Still liking the book, though I don't entirely agree with the author's social views, aside from socialism not working.

...And boom goes the dynamite

The last of the trees I planted this spring is about to get its leaves.  Hooray.  11 trees planted, 11 are still alive. Sort of. Yay Gurneys!  Boo dog for trying to eat the plum trees.  They're still kind of alive.  The tough part will coaxing them through summer.

I just finished watching the most recent Family Guy.  Didn't laugh once. I'm not sure how close to giving up on it I am, but we'll see.  I gave up on Simpsons about 3 years ago and haven't missed a beat.  I stuck with it for way too long.  Good thing American Dad is still funny.  Cleveland Show is just kind of a throw-in with Family Guy.  Neither is terribly good, but it's alright occasionally for a laugh.