Got grass?, Skydrive, Metta WTF

I got it in my head that I wanted to get the grass maintenance taken care of last night.  As soon as I got home I changed my clothes and backed the tractor out of the shed.

I was able to get both the mowing and the weed whacking done in record time, in total I think I spent 90 minutes.  I was able to chop a bunch off the time because I didn’t have to mow everything.  The area of the yard that are not getting hit by the sprinklers is pretty much in hibernation right now.

The weather the past couple days has been great, we are getting a VERY late in the season cold front.  I have had the AC off and the windows open, it’s great plus I’ll take the electricity savings as a bonus.

Tomorrow will be my road trip to Plant City.  I am very excited about the prospect of getting my SSR back on the road.  I’ll be pulling out 5am-ish.  DD coffee will be riding shotgun.

Yesterday Homey clued me in that Microsoft was dialing back the amount of space allocated to people for free on their Skydrive service from 25 gig to 7 gig. However if you go to the site and click a link, they would allow existing clients to retain the free 25 gig of web storage space. So that is what I did.

Going back to the site allowed me to see that they have polished Skydrive since it was first released.  It now has a built in desktop application and apps for i devices that give Skydrive a feature set very similar to Dropbox, which I love.  With Drop Box, I only have 3.5 gig of free space and I only managed that by referring a number of people to the service.  The 25 gig I get from Skydrive is a HUGE upgrade.  You might want to give Skydrive a look see.

So the other day I was at the gym on a cardio machine and was watching Sportscenter.  I saw the clip of Ron Artest delivering a hellacious elbow to an opposing player.  What I didn’t understand was why they were referring to Ron Artest was Metta World Peace.  WTF?

Well evidently Ron decided to steal a page out of Chad Johnson’s script and legally changed his name to something utterly ridiculous, Metta World Peace.  I really wish media could just use these idiots original real names. Or better yet just refer to anyone that changes their name to something idiotic, as “Dipshit” or “Asshat”, for the rest of time.  Morons.

My uncle just finished his latest clock.  His imagination and craftsmanship is just outstanding, approaching super hero level if you ask me.