Today was certainly eventful. Previously I’ve mentioned that I thought perhaps I had a rabbit living under my house. Today that was confirmed. I called a pest control service and had them out to the condo today to investigate. What he pulled out from under the house could only be described as intensely disgusting! Mostly decomposed and nearly unrecognizable except for the legs was a pretty good size rabbit that must have died under the house a while ago. This was the first rabbit in 30 years that this guy who treated my condo had ever pulled out, he said it was somewhat unusual to find a rabbit that had actually made the effort to burrow into the foundation of the house. It was not however where I thought it would be, it had died on the opposite side of the house from where it got in. Lucky for me, the hole is now fixed, the animal is gone, and mice traps have been set just to make sure no further issues come up. Gavin was quite curious about the wrapped up carcass that came out of the crawlspace but he contained himself. I also had the unit sprayed to eliminate ants and other bugs. One of the perks of being in a rental situation is that none of it cost me a dime. These sorts of things are one of the reasons I’ve put off buying a house. It’s nice to not have to worry about that sort of maintenance expense.
In other news, I turned 35 on Monday and have been feeling rather old lately. I’ve been working nearly non-stop and my body has been paying the price. Needless to say, writing in my blog here has not been a top priority. I did manage to buy myself a birthday present though and it just proves that I’m a big geek. About 3 years ago I purchased a rather expensive computer from Best Buy and the motherboard blew up not less than 6 months after I purchased it. Considering the tweaking that I do to my computers, it was just cheaper and much less of a hassle for me at the time to purchase another computer rather than to fix my broken one. I’ve been toying with the idea lately of getting rid of cable television and the way for me to do that without loosing access to the few shows that I do watch was to try and hook up a computer media center to my television. With the purchase this past year of a big screen LCD TV, and with a new motherboard installed and actually working correctly in my old computer, my journey to being cable free is nearly complete. I decided initially to install a different type of operating system called Linux. For those of you not up with things in the tech world, this is the operating system that is used primarily in the geek world. It’s open source, completely free, and I’m finding out a bit difficult to figure out how to use. It does not communicate easily with my windows network so I’ve been learning how to speak geek again for the past few days. Once I get it set up properly, I’ll be able to share files with my windows machine and I’ll be able to use my TV computer to watch all my favorite TV shows in Hi-Def for free over the Internet. I’ll provide a progress report as I get things set up. Yes, I know it’s boring but it will be interesting to look back in a few years on this and congratulate myself for being a complete geek.
So that’s all folks. Long Live the Bunny.
