Let us examine, for a moment, the current and upcoming weather of northeast Ohio.



I do believe that the picture speaks for itself.

Last night the knee really acted up. I can't remember the last time something hurt that badly. Everything was going fine and then out of nowhere, it just started throbbing. I had let it dry out and went for a walk with Lindsay. During that time, it ached a little, but nothing very bad. When we got back I sat down for about 2 minutes and everything tightened up. It was like it was scabbing over in real time (a pretty picture, I know) and any movement at all was very painful.

Not good.

Right now it seems to be doing okay though. I can walk around, and while it's still throbbing a bit, it's nothing compared to what it was last night.

Maybe I'll post a disgusting picture of it.

I crashed my bike yesterday and in the process did a pretty good number on my knee. It looks pretty disgusting still. Hopefully it won't take too long to heal though. I'm able to walk on it without much discomfort. Going up and down stairs is a pain, but still possible.

It could've been much much worse. This is why you're supposed to wear knee and elbow pads and a helmet when you're bike riding. I had none of the above. I am an idiot.

Our engagement party is today, so naturally there would be a huge catastrophe at work. I left work yesterday around 2:30 so that I could go pick up my car and then all hell broke loose. So naturally I was working on it late last night, and then got paged again early this morning. Hopefully it's fixed soon.

Perhaps you can vote on which style you like best.

Is this darker style preferred over the lighter style?

I'm messing with a bunch of different layouts. Please bear with me.

I'm accepting constructive comments.

In other words, that means not things like "Page too bright. Hurts eyes."

Once upon a time there was a natural gas bill. Every other month when the gas company would estimate the usage, it would skyrocket. Then the next month, the bill would be negative. Eventually the gas company got confused by this and decided to issue FOUR DIFFERENT BILLS in a single month. Which one needs to be paid? Who knows?

Could it be $509 for a month? It could be.

Could it be $333 for a month? It could also be that.

How about the $159 bill that is showing on the web site? Maybe.

Or lastly, it could be the $176 bill that I actually paid. They've re-computed me bill 5 times in the past two months, so now I have no idea what I actually owe. On top of that, when they read my meter last time, they read it way too high. I read my own meter and submitted it, then their idiotic worker came by and misread it and over rode my own. Then they came back a few days later and read it correctly, but never reported it to the company.

What I want to know is how the crap can I have a $500 gas bill for a single month? I'm never home and even when I am, it's only for a few hours at night. My programmable thermostat keeps it at 60 degrees when I'm not there. There are only two possible solutions. One is that my entire house is one giant gas explosion waiting to happen, and I'm fairly certain that that's not the reason. The more likely one is that Dominion East Ohio sucks and cannot reasonably estimate, or even apparently read, my natural gas usage.

I've also decided to switch my comments to a more stable method. Sadly, this means that I will lose all of the comments from the past, but it's a move that has been coming for some time.

Since Time Warner sucks so badly, I'm changing the address of this blog to be:

http://vanfossen.blogspot.com/

Tell your friends. Tell your neighbors. Shout it from the rooftops.

My address is changing.

vanfossen.blogspot.com, your source for information.

vanfossen.blogspot.com, your source for hilarity.

vanfossen.blogspot.com, your source for oatmeal.

My old address will still work until March 31st. Yes, it's not much time is it? You can thank Time Warner for that.

What is freaking wrong with humanity? Did you see this article?

It's about a guy who murdered his ex girlfriend, chopped her up into little pieces, and then barbecued those pieces on his grill.

I understand the need for due process. Believe me, I do. In this case however, if he is found guilty, he should immediately be chopped into little pieces himself.