Pender’s Fabulous Journal of Random Stuff and Things!!!!

I’ve added a new category called “Code”. It’s when I write stupid little (or not so little) utilities at work that I feel I must waste upon the world.

Why? Cause I like code. Firstly to inspire me to write other code, secondly to bore the SHIT out of anyone who isn’t a programmer.

Here’s a stupid little thing I wrote for a buddy today to tell him whether something is numeric or alpha. Pass in your string as an argument and it’ll work it’s Harry Potter(tm) magic!

#!/bin/ksh
expr $1 - $1 1>/dev/null 2>/dev/null
if [ $? -eq 2 ];then
echo not numeric
else
echo is numeric
fi

Just added niallonline to my list of links.

Someday all my friends will get blogs and they’ll all be Penderwooded!

That’s a play on “slashdotted“, by the way.. Sickos.

We just got back from Moncton, cleaning the old apartment. We’re glad that crap is finally over. We sold the washer and dryer and now we’re hoping to get the full damage deposit back from the landlady (since we worked like DOGS cleaning the place). So we’ll likely not be making a commute to Moncton again until the spring. So sad but eh, whatcha gonna do?.. Cry, that’s what!

While in Moncton one of Hollywood’s friends (Jersey, I think is her alias) came to meet us. She’s going to be staying with us for the next week or so. She helped clean the old apartment, so she’s already paid for her week’s rent. :P

Since everybody’s doing “it” I figured I’d do “it” too. “It” being, get the site ranked on www.silktide.com of course!

OH NO!!!!!!!!!! :(

Cause apparently there are 5 other websites that say all these things.

What the?

Website #446 in the WORLD, you hear that suckers? Silktide knows a super duper popular site when it sees one!

That’s cause I didn’t design it myself.

I added a link to Oh me nerves… (Old Boss Steve’s site, he ain’t old, but he’s an old boss), Laroque and Roll (someone who posts on steel white table frequently and I got hooked on reading her blog), The Rekounas Blog (greg, the bastard), rob was here. (pure massacre’s blog), and The Lonely Sole Cafe (made by the infamous morely). They’re all sites I read on a regular basis and I figured I’d give them one more link to boost their egos when they check how much their sites are worth or how popular they are on the interweb. One more link than they had yesterday! Yay! That oughta be worth at least $10 USD, each! PAY UP!

Steve B:
E-mail me at pender@gmail.com.

Since we moved into this place there is no washer/dryer hoookup, so we’re selling them so that we can buy a dishwasher (which this apartment also doesn’t have). It makes us sad. :(

Washer
Dryer

With taxes and everything from futureshop they would cost $977 new. We’re selling them for $500. They’re only 10 months old, never had a problem with them, and they work awesome.

Or if you wouldn’t mind storing them at your place for $50 so that we can sell them, we’d do that too. They have to be out of the old house by the end of the month. We’re trying to sell them by the 27th at the latest.

When we moved here we told the moving company guy we weren’t bringing the washer and dryer, that we were selling them. Well apparently he included them in the quote anyhow. Which we weren’t told. So we paid for them to be moved but they weren’t moved. Grr.. So now it’s this huge hassle to try to sell them from a different city without being able to show them off and stuff.

In case you somehow found this site from afar, they are in Moncton, NB, Canada.

Help!

Update:
We sold them! It’s going to someone in Saint John. Hollywood’s Dad is going to pick it up and drop it off at their place on Sunday. Thanks Hollywood’s Dad!

Yay, time to buy a dishwasher.

Winnie the Pooh (pig, guinea) died yesterday. I woke up yesterday and she was cold, laying on her side in her cage, just died out of the blue. I know she was getting old because she was losing fur on her belly and her fur colour was changing, and she had a santa beard, but we weren’t expecting her to die. It’s sad, poor pig. We miss da peeg. :(

While we were looking for a place to live we stayed with some friends of my family, Pete and Donna. Very, very nice people. We were very comfortable in their home, we didn’t want to leave.

Here’s where the new place is, if you want to come in for some tea and crumpets or danishes:
Our Apartment

We’re at the corner of ingles and victoria, right next to the bottom right tip of the triangle. We live upstairs from a Peter’s Pizza (Peter is our landlord!!!!! Or maybe his son, whatever, his name is Peter and that’s all I care about).

It’s a 1.4km for me to walk to work. The area is very nice (in the posh, upscale south side of Halifax). So no worries about gas, shoveling or driving. There is a superstore about 0.3km away and a sobeys about 0.2km away from our place (which we didn’t even know when we got it).

The guy wanted $1100 for the place but we talked him down to $1000, heat and hot water included (cause Hollywood’s a nifty negotiator, we played good cop/bad cop though Hollywood didn’t know it). We looked at a bunch of places that sucked before finding this one. At one of the places an 88 year old man had to walk an hour and a half to meet us. Then he was so worried that we wouldn’t take it and wanted us to immediately sign the lease and started knocking down the price to make sure that he didn’t have to walk down there ever again. I refused to sign, the bedrooms were so small we wouldn’t even be able to get a bed in there. After we didn’t take the place we gave him a ride home (and it was FAR). Crazy old man. He was as spry as a 65 year old though.

Moving cost us about $3000 and the company is pitching in $2500. We’re anxiously awaiting that money to dig us out of the hole.

I’ll write more later to try to catch up on current events.