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iBay, UBay, we all Bay for eBay

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eBay was originally my ideaSo, at the auction last week, in addition to 26 printers (are you guys sure you don’t need one?) I also bought 3 toner cartridges solely to resell on eBay. I’ve never done that before, but they were not very expensive in any sort of absolute terms although they did, at the time, cost as much as 2 laser printers. I listed them on eBay Saturday night, and so far they haven’t generated any bids. There is one guy who is watching them, but I don’t know what his intentions are.

I didn’t know how I was going to package them, but last Sunday when we were at Walmarts our friend Randy, who works there, threw a box at us from over the aisle, and it was exactly the right size for the toner cartridge. If we had better writers for this show I would have shouted something like “missed” until he had thrown over as many as I needed, but we just went over and asked him for some more.

Getting inside my head

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As some of you know, my eyes have been bothering me since I had an eye infection in July. I’ve been to an eye doctor a few times and he (after trying a few things that didn’t work) had me get an MRI. He actually got me in to get it really quickly. The bad part was that my appointment was at 6:45 in the morning. I asked the technician to take my picture. He didn’t act like that was weird, but it was early.

nothing at all like being swallowed alive

The MRI was really easy. You just have to lie still and not have a metal plate embedded in your skull. It’s really loud, but not an entirely unpleasantly loud. They give you headphones to wear and literally pipe in (no magnets in the MRI) music, but you can only hear the music in between scans. At the end of the of the scanning I used the old line, “My wife is a preschool teacher, can I have X?” where X is anything up to their first born child. In this case X was, “a copy of the image you made”. He asked if a copy on CD would be okay and I said sure.

doesn't this look more like Brad's head?

   On the CD were 18 scans (we can’t decide if that is likely to be all of the scans) and a program to manipulate them. We can rotate my head in 3D and also make those red/blue 3D pictures. Anyone have a pair of 3D glasses? The eye doctor said that the MRI would let him know whether I needed to see a Neurological Opthomologist or and Ear, Nose and Throat guy. I’m not sure which one to hope for.

P.S. You can manipulate the first image by right clicking on it.

The Auction

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Well, folks, another Saturday was frittered away at an auction. This was the Lincoln Public Schools auction, which is better than the rest because they have many things that I’m interested in. (The others just have rows upon rows of computers and monitors. *snore*) Sure, up close they’re all worthless, old globes and microscopes that nobody needs, but taken together – they’re like beautiful displays at Target!

He's got the whole worlds in his hands...

Lloyd here now. I might need to find someone else to go to auctions with me. Lauren doesn’t appreciate them quite enough. She didn’t even mention that I bought 26 laser printers for $1.50 each. By the way, does anyone need a laser printer? …They might work…

what are you lookin' at?

She also didn’t mention the pallet of choir music that I got for $3.00. After pulling about a dozen “worthwhile” titles from the pallet we put a sign on it that said: FREE TO GOOD HOME. Some people even took some of it after Lauren pointed out that it makes good wrapping paper.

I write the songs that make the whole world sing

The pallet-o-music came with such classic titles as:

  • You Don’t Bring Me Flowers by Neil Diamond
  • Can You Read My Mind by Lois Lane
  • Truly by Lionel Richie
  • Mandy sung by Barry Manilow
  • Babe by the river that runs through hell
  • Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey by Sir Paul McCartney
  • Eight Is Enough by the mid seventies

Go Cardinals!

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Cardinals
Those birds are amazing -beating tigers and all. My brother and sister-in-law were at tonight’s game. Twenty rows (and thirty feet towards left field) behind home plate.

By the way – Happy Birthday, Bethany! I should have posted that earlier!

Update:
I don’t really have much to say about the World Series games. Most of the Cardinal fans I talked to were, “Just hoping we don’t get swept.” So it was really a fun series (but then, the whole playoffs were good if you happened to be a Cardinals fan). And the Tigers have pitchers to blame, so they don’t have to feel bad about the whole mess.

But, and I say this with nothing but caring in my heart, Fox Sports Suck. Watching the broadcasts made me wish they (and by they I mean anyone who has ever in any way been associated with Fox Sports) were dead. They missed pitches, showed interviews on the screen while showing at-bats in little picture-in-picture windows, never showed enough of the field to get a sense of the game, jumped from head shot to head shot (Pitcher, Hitter, Manager, Pitcher, Catcher, Hitter, Owner, Other Manager, Then the pitch). I hate them.