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Carl M, Slingerdoo and I went on a late night photo stroll after Slingerdoo’s birthday celebration last night. And by late night, I mean in the 2:00 to 2:30 in the morning time frame. We got some odd looks and a couple of drivebys by the Decatur police, but no one bothered us. It was a successful evening of photoing.

And, Happy Birthday Slingerdoo!

It seems that at least a few times a week both the cleaning lady at work and my schedules sync up such that we both need access to the men’s room at the same time. I don’t really think I have a problem with us both being in there at the same time, but society doesn’t like that. So what happens is that whoever is in there first wins. If I’m there first, she just steps over to the lady’s room and works there. But, if she is there first then I have to find alternate men’s room accommodations. I can tell that she is there because there is a very polite sign on the door that says that the restroom is being cleaned and should be ready again in 15 minutes or whatever.

This isn’t a huge problem. Like most people, I enjoy walking up or down the stairs to explore parts of the building that I am not in often. But, I always have to guess as to which floor’s bathrooms she has just cleaned. Did she start at the bottom and work up, or the other way around. If I had to make that decision, I would start at 1 and goto 5. But, do she and I think alike? I’ve never really said anything except ‘hi’ or ‘how are you?’ to her, so I can’t really get a good feel for her thought process.

Enter my idea for a good idea: The very polite sign should have a movable arrow on it that points up or down and added verbiage that says, ‘Hey, I just cleaned that floor’, where ‘that’ points to the just cleaned floor. And to prevent workplace jokesters, they could make it so that you have to have some kind of special key, similar to the toilet paper dispenser key, to move the arrow. With this, I believe that everybody wins. She doesn’t have to wait for me on another floor because I guessed wrong and can more efficiently clean the bathrooms. And I can be directed to the next closest, and best, men’s room option. And by ‘best’ I really mean ‘cleanest’.

I did a quick Google search and didn’t turn up any results similar to this.

Adam, or Ducky, has created a pretty nifty web app using the Google maps API called walk. jog. run.. Ok, so he actually created it awhile ago, but just recently updated it to use Google maps. And, I have to say that it is pretty impressive. You plot your course along the map and it tells you useful info like distance, time, etc. If I walked. jogged. or ran. I would use it.

Maybe I’ll use it to plot a course for my upcoming trip to Chicago in September. Might be overkill, but could be a nice stress test.

DVD storage has become an issue. So, I just placed an order for the MM-252 from Boltz. I’ve been looking at this for about a year now after it was recommended by an Internet person. The price is a bit high, but I really like the look of these all steel shelves. Another nice feature is that you can buy expansion kits to make enough space for an infinite amount of discs.

The move is done. This afternoon I had my move out walkthrough at the old place and it went pretty well. The guy was surprised at how clean the place was after me living there for three years. That’s good, but you should have seen it a week ago. I think the only thing that I might have to pay for is the hole that I punched in the closet door. Woops!

As an added bonus, while I was driving home I got a call from the Comcast dispatcher to let me know that there was a technician in the area and could meet me at my place in 30 minutes. So, the cable is turned on now. Sadly, there is still nothing on the TV.

Then tonight I managed to spend $92 at Target on ‘new apartment necessities’. The total would have been worse if I hadn’t passed up buying that new toaster oven that I really need.

To mark the anniversary of the first lunar landing, Google has created Google Moon. Pretty cool. See what happens if you zoom too close.