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Hassenbeck rape episode of Law and Order aired again. Idiot Elisabeth Hasselbeck of "The View" thought this TV show was a threat to her because the victim's name is close to hers the first time it aired. I guess the producers and NBC didn't think so since it aired again with the same character names. Stupid bitch Hassenbeck, er Hasselbeck. Was the rape victim on the show married to a useless NFL benchwarmer? Don't think so.

Just watched the movie "Who Killed the Electric Car?" and got pretty turned on about the plug-in hybrid idea. PlugInAmerica.com is a website all about promoting electric cars. What I like the most about the pure electrics is that there is no need to change the oil or deal with all those mufflers and catalytic converters. I have an oil leak. Afraid to find out how much it'll cost to fix it.

Had to pay 300 bucks today to get new brakes and rotors. Also learned I need new struts, that'll be 500 bucks, electric cars have struts and brakes, so no cost savings there.

I just want a new car.

I guess that's what you get for buying used tires. I knew I was gonna wake up to a flat tire, parked in a puddle and heard the bubbles coming from the punctured tire. Didn't care enough to go get it fixed right then. Got a brand new (new to me) used tire for 25 bucks installed! Plus I was a half hour late for work, bonus!

Darn it all. Don't know exactly what fucked my Trixbox up, was it one of the updates? Was it the mangled install of Zoip, aka Zork over IP? I really want the Zork over IP to work, I'd love to send people on hold to a game of Zork.

Anyway, I fucked up my Voip phone again. I'll start again from scratch and see what happens.

I have a working voip phone again. Voicemail needs some tweaking. At this point my Sipura thing isn't doing anything except providing a bridge between my mini itx Trixbox system and the cheap ass cordless phone my nephew gave to me at Xmas last year. If it works out I'll consider putting the mini itx inside an old style type rotary dial phone, big, black and bulky. I used to have one...think I left it behind in a move...I'd fuck it up and have no phone again.

Now that version 2.0 is available I'm gonna blow out my beta trixbox and start over. Maybe the fresh start will result in harmony betwixt BroadVoice and Telasip. Yes I said betwixt. Right now it's too fucked up to dial out to any trunk. (trunk: the dealybop that does some magic phone stuff on an asterisk system)

I'm a fucking idiot. Voicemail is still a mess, but figured out my outgoing problem, had the wrong username in the settings. It's amazing I can even type, so stupid am I.

Duh, didn't have voicemail installed, so that is sort of fixed. Need it to say my name rather than extension number.

Have a dilemma, which number should I keep? 232.1871 or 209.9318? The 232 one "feels" better while keying it in on a phone. Hmmm. I'd have to pay to port the 232 number to telasip.

Currently Listening Comedy Minus One by Albert Brooks

I stole this from Boing Boing. Are they idiot drivers, or super icy conditions? It's always fun to be behind the wheel and have no control while colliding into parked cars. I used to love trying to get out of control in snowy conditions, but always in a place where I couldn't bang into anything, like an empty parking lot, or neighbor's yard, stupid tree.

Apple TV. I've been waiting for this thing, it only does 720p. It has component, and I have a home made component cable I'd like to use... I reckon the hard drive is for buffering because it can't even stream 720p without dropouts. Not shipping until February so I have some time to think on it.

Next thing is the iPhone, want one, it does WiFi and Cingular. Not available until June or something like that. Gives me tons of time to figure out my Trixbox that is totally fucked up right now, and has never worked as I wanted.

Could it be true? I might have a working Trixbox server. Finally figured out why I couldn't get it to work with BroadVoice, didn't have the right SIP password, duh, no wonder. Plugged the correct password into the config files and presto changeo, success, sort of. Was able to make a few test calls before BroadVoice decided to become unreachable. Hopefully in the next day or two I'll have my credentials for TelaSIP, another "inexpensive" VOIP provider.

C'mon TelaSIP, I know you took my money, give me my credentials, oh and please offer a local number. Kinda hard to tell from your website if I can have a local number or not.

Update: Got my credentials from TelaSIP. I can dial out fine, but can't dial into the number they gave me. Might be a propagation type thing, meaning the regular phone companies don't know that the number TeleSIP gave me is active yet.

I've got to pick exterior colors for my house. Think I'll go with historically traditional ones for a Craftsman style bungalow. Didn't find much searching until I found this Flickr photo set. Some kind of green for the body is what I'm leaning towards. The neighbors on the left have a yellowish house and the guy on the right has a white one. I've got some time to decide because it's way too cold right now to paint.

Did a walkthru of my burned house today. Everything has been stripped down to bare floors and studs. That pic is where the fire almost burned through the living room floor. Keep in mind that there was carpet and another wood floor that the flames ate up before creating those almost holes.

That's what I thought when watching "The Office" earlier tonight. Turns out that hump wasn't the one from Cheaters. It was Kenneth Cole, who happens to look a lot like the hump from Cheaters. Kenneth Cole designs shoes and other stuff that they sell at Macy's. I don't think he confronts people who are cheating on their spouses. Maybe he confronts people who wear counterfeit shoes.

My latest electric bill showed up in my inbox today. It wasn't as good as my Qwest bill where they owe me, pretty good though. Only 21 bucks, compared to the last one before the fire which was over 100 bucks more than that. Almost hate to move back after all the repairs are done, really enjoy these cheap utilities.

It's been almost 30 days since I last slept in my own bed. Don't think I'd want to sleep in it now, probably in a landfill. Thankfully those two aren't allowed in my guest room, or else there'd be hair all over my new MacBook Pro. Should only be three more months of their crap to put up with, "... feed me, pet me, play with me ..."

And, I should find out next week for sure how the whole "contents" thing will work with my homeowner's insurance. Hope that ambulance ride will be covered by my health insurance, picked up my mail Friday and there was a notice claiming that they think some other insurance might cover it because it was the result of an accident. Had to fill out a form, now I get to wait and see.

Got a new bill from Qwest in my email today. They actually owe me 26 bucks. Not everything sucks when your house almost burns down. I guess they owe me because they bill in advance. I got lucky when they agreed to let me out of the two year commitment, but c'mon, I'm not in the house, how can I use their DSL on melted phone lines? DirecTV let me put the service on hold for six months and will give me a free move-in thing, or something. Awesome!

Do pugs ever stop shedding? Sheesh, hair everywhere. Staying at my folks place for who knows how long and they've got a couple of pugs. I would think that in the cold weather they'd keep as much hair as possible. Maybe when it gets colder.

iPhone glass replacement kit showed up today. The glass in the kit was broken. Shoot.

Dummy at work told me that today. He voted, but didn't vote for president, just local elections. All because of the electoral college system we have, his lame state of Idaho only has 4. He claims that he hates the electoral college system and would rather that the popular vote would prevail. Hey dummy, you didn't vote for president, so yours didn't count period. Obama won the popular vote as well.

The movie still sucks, but it looks a lot better in Blu-Ray. I will say that you can sort of tell the bad guys from the good guys in the higher def version. Viewing the DVD version I couldn't really follow the action, or tell which robot was which. To be honest I was catching up on email and stuff during the heavy CGI scenes. Just wanted to see what's her name in a belly shirt and short skirt in high def.