The Trouble Twins

Posted on June 30th, 2009 in Life by Administrator


The Trouble Twins, originally uploaded by gordyt.

Insanely Hot!

Posted on June 25th, 2009 in Life by Administrator


Insanely Hot!, originally uploaded by gordyt.

This is the temperature at our house RIGHT NOW!!!

My breakfast helper

Posted on June 24th, 2009 in Life, Uncategorized by Administrator


My breakfast helper, originally uploaded by gordyt.

Shadow is a fantastic helper in the kitchen.

Dot and Maggie

Posted on June 23rd, 2009 in Life by Administrator


Dot and Maggie, originally uploaded by gordyt.

Dot and Maggie are helping clean cages.

Good God it’s HOT!

Posted on June 21st, 2009 in Life by Administrator

This is the temperature at out house, RIGHT NOW, as measured by our weather station:

Good God it's HOT!

June 2009 Python Meetup

Posted on June 16th, 2009 in Computers by Administrator

The June 2009 Houston Python Meetup is at 19:00 tonight at the Stag’s Head Pub. I’m giving a short presentation on PyQt. Meeting notes are available here.

Marc’s Cube

Posted on June 2nd, 2009 in Life by Administrator


Marc’s Cube, originally uploaded by gordyt.


Marc’s Cube, originally uploaded by gordyt.


Marc’s Cube, originally uploaded by gordyt.

COMCAST is too damned Expensive!

Posted on June 10th, 2008 in Life by Administrator

I hate monopolies, especially when they rip you off so blatantly. Ever since those assholes at Comcast bought out Time-Warner in the Houston market, my monthly cable bill has gone up for the exact same services. Here is a breakdown:

LDG Financial Services

Posted on June 26th, 2007 in Life by Administrator

I have been getting strange “hang up” calls for about a month or so now. Today I called the number back (813-283-0568). Found out it was some company called “LDG Financial Services.”

I gave them my number and asked why they kept calling me. They looked up my record and said they were a collection agency and that I owed Reliant Energy $22.94. I thought that was interesting since I have never used that company. We have been with Green Mountain Energy for many years.

We finally figured out it was for my son from when he lived at the apartments on FM 1960. Apparently there had been some small leftover charge from when his electric service had been cancelled when he went into the Army.

Interestingly, I had never received notification of that amount. The person I spoke with at LDG (Tristan) couldn’t tell me anything.

I called Reliant Energy (713-207-7777). I spoke with Evette. I happened to have Gordy Jr.’s account information on my computer and she was able to verify this small remaining balance.

I went ahead and paid it for him and asked her why I was not notified. She looked up the forwarding address on the account and it was wrong.

This *better* not cause any kind of blip on Gordy Jr.’s credit or mine.

A/C Maintenance and Hootie

Posted on June 26th, 2007 in Life by Administrator

Well it’s that time of year again when Houston is just going to continue to get hotter for a while. That reminded me that I should schedule the regular A/C maintenance check. I contacted Airtronics (281-855-8714) and spoke with Courtney. She was very nice. She scheduled a technician to come out to the house today between 10:00 and 12:00. I had them call me on my mobile phone when the tech was on his way since our office is so close to the house.

The fellow to came out was named Israel. He’s young, but seemed competent. The system checked out OK. Freon levels were good. I told him that it seemed like the compressor made more noise than it should when starting. He checked the current draw of the compressor, which was fine. He installed a “hard start kit” for $225.00. I had to pay that out of pocket, but he told me that if it ever failed it would be covered by the American Home Shield warranty.

Here is Isreal checking the compressor:

israel

A little while later I got a call from Hootie. She will be working for Apple Computer doing iPhone tech support. How cool is that??

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