Two men were airlifted to the hospital after an explosion at a Kitsap County home on Friday.
Archive for the 'Life' Category
You are doing it incorrectly
16 July 2010A most useful map.
21 June 2010I misunderstood the part about having fun
15 June 2010I’m sure the meaning was clear:
Police in the Phoenix suburb of Surprise say they received a 911 call Friday from an 11-year-old boy who said his mother was packing and moving to California and wasn’t taking him or his 6-year-old brother with her.
Police spokesman Sgt. Mark Ortega said the boy’s mother, Christina Muniz (MYOO’-neez), 29, came out and told officers that she was “sick of her children” and wanted the police to take them so she can “have fun and play.”
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Muniz, dressed in her black and white-striped jail garb, told the magistrate it “was a big misunderstanding, miscommunication.”
My nemesis
11 June 2010On day three of migraine. I hate this thing; I should name it, so I can defeat it.
Sockets
6 June 2010When working on a vehicle, the frustration of trying to get a socket to align with a fastener you can only feel can be extreme.
I’ve watched, out of the corner of my eye, as two ROV crews have tried for hours to get a wrench onto a bolt; every once in a while, they pull the wrench back in what I perceive as that frustration I’ve felt.
As I write this, the ROV with the wrench has pulled away; I wonder if the yellow marks align with the corners or the flats? I’ve seen them (apparently) try both ways. I imagine one crew calling the toolsmith up from below decks to ask impertinent questions about his lineage and the exact relation of the yellow line width and the boot that is about to enter the toolsmith’s ass.
We have beveled magazine wells; why not bevel the socket?
Reactive targets of another kind.
25 May 2010I don’t think I’ll push for these to be included in the shoot any time soon; cleanup is already enough trouble.
Interesting that it went off with the impact of a 22lr, though.
Of course, the female that is uncomfortable with the gunplay gets killed.
25 May 2010Detectives said one of the girls became uneasy as the boy kept playing with the gun. The girl, identified by the L.A. County coroner’s office as Alexis Wallace, stood to leave the room. As she was walking out, the boy pointed the gun at her and pulled the trigger, not realizing that there was a bullet in the chamber, police said.
When Gamble came across the bloody scene, she said, the boy was distraught, running around the room in a “chaotic state.”
“The gun just went off,” he said in disbelief, throwing the weapon onto his bed.
How to be taken seriously
20 May 2010Not often you see all the rules broken without someone being hurt.
20 May 2010OK, not all at the same time, but still.
