Isaac Sinnett

Home & Garden

For two weeks running, the Home & Garden section of the newspaper has been one of the more entertaining. This weeks feature article “5 things to know about buying a toilet” was a great follow-up to “How to choose a rake that’s right for you”.

1. “Measure”… This is pretty self-explanatory, no need to elaborate.

2. “Two-piece or one-piece?”…hahaha! Just so you know, “One-pice toilets are generally lower and sleeker…and often have more complex mechanisms.” Incase you were thinking of installing a toilet by yourself, the article warned that a one-piece is not a do-it-yourselfer job.

3. “Enough oomph”…very important.  Does your toilet have enough oomph?

4. “But will it clog?”…yep

5. “Form versus function”…it is warned not to pick a toilet just for it’s look.  You must make sure that there is function. This is especially important when buying designer toilets.

Battle of early mornings

I wrote a blog the other day and then it slipped away to a deep dark corner of cyberspace.  Where are you blog?  Don’t run away!  Ok, so that may be a touch on the over dramatic side of things.  Today I am very tired.  No fault but my own.  Weekends are here to enjoy and I thoroughly enjoyed mine.  I didn’t leave a whole lot of enjoying left for the weekend to hold on to.  Just enough to propel me through the week so that I can come back and enjoy next weekend.  (I guess there is really no way “i can come back and enjoy next weekend”)  That, for all practicalities sake, would be  impossible.

I dropped my roommate Paul off at the airport on Saturday afternoon.  He is going to be gone all summer long playing quartets on a cruise.  I then headed off to Michigan, which I do on a somewhat regular basis, to hang out with Sean and Aaron.  Aaron was at a rehearsal for Southwest Michigan Symphony Orchestra when I arrived, so the hanging out was left to Sean and I to get rolling.  I have to say we did quite a phenomenal job.  We went to the driving range and hit a bucket of balls.  I haven’t played golf for going on four years and it was great to get out there and hit a few.  It was a lot of fun, but today I am paying the price.  Isaac is sore!  Again, it was worth it.

I went to bed really late last night and per my usual, I woke up early.  This time I was able to get back to sleep for 30 minute periods until about 10:30am.  When I was driving back to Chicago this afternoon, I believe that I figured out part of the problem of waking up.  I have a lot to do and am thinking about it and feel that I should be up working on it.  However, I am too tired to first wake up completely, let alone, get up and get something productive done.  The two sides then fight until, a time that I deem it mandatory to finally wake up and get out of bed has arrived.   I will come back to this topic when I have had time to refine it.  If you have thoughts on it, definitely let me know.

The Payment

I just finished up my taxes.  In fact, I’m going to take a pause right now and go seal the envelope so that the deed is done. (30 seconds elapses)  Ok, ‘The Man’ has one yet again.  I feel somewhat ok that I’ll end up in the wash once I have procured my check from G-Dub.  Note to self.  Securing forms of work that pay you with a 1099 is an interesting way to go.  It’s not all that bad when you think that you are able to hold on to your money and make money off of it instead of the government making money off of it.  However, when you do your taxes are finished and you realize that you have to personally write ‘The Man’ a check vs ‘The Man’ automatically deducting his money, it tends to be a sad moment.  Alas, the deed is done and all is well.

Since I found writing a check to the IRS to be such a thrilling time I’m going to leave you now and go pay other bills.

buh bye

we just canceled our cable!  that’s right.  the deed is done.  it’s actually going to be a good thing.  we weren’t really watching it and it’s going to save us a ton of money.  in addition to that fact, there just simply isn’t anything on tv anyway. i would find myself watching it just for boredoms sake.  and it’s just never a good idea to please boredom through tv.  don’t worry though.  the internet isn’t going anywhere and the speed is going to increase.  even with this increase in internet speed, the savings per month are nothing short of monumental in the book of me.

the republican’s have officially said adios to presidential hopeful huckabee.  it’s not as if that was much of a mystery, but some people need firm numbers for defeat confirmation.  the democratic race is getting crazier by the day and it seems as though one of them has said buh bye to the issues and hello to “politics”.

last but not least, it seems as though i have booted the ever popular part of writing known as capitalization.

Volatility, cold and snow

The stock market took another big dump today and along with it, or led by it, apple (aapl) dove.  It wasn’t just a small sell of, it was a jump right off the cliff.  Shares where down over 10% (down over $16).  Shareholders were selling the stock like they’d die if they held on to it.  So strange after they posted their earnings, and they were up over 58% over the year earlier.  However, the outlook for the current year is not so beautiful and that caused investors to get cold feet.  The point of all of this…I lost money today. But that is the beauty of the stock market and capitalism in general.  It can make you money, but at the same time it can lose it all for you too.

It has been freezing cold as of late.  This past weekend, it was 30 degrees below zero with the wind chill factor.  Ridiculous is what I say!  The past few days it has been snowing and living in a large city, that creates problems.  First, people freak out and it makes driving very difficult and long.  My normal drive to work has essentially doubled, thanks to the weather.