It's Thanksgiving!....well... Yesterday was Thanksgiving! It was a blast. Video games all day then turkey and stuff'n all night. I ate so much that I thought I would explode.

I do know one thing now. I need to get a copy of Call of Duty now. That game is cool.

Uh oh. Spam is on the rise.

Total emails for last five days: 5359
Total spam for last five days: 3389
Spam percentage is 63.200%

Arg! Spam totally sucks. I'm getting spammed every minute of every day. It's just got to stop! I just read that congress is getting ready to pass a new anti-spam law. I sure hope it gets passed. I'm sick of having my server process all the spam that comes in. Here is the totals for right now:
Total emails for last five days: 7747
Total spam for last five days: 3082
Spam percentage is 39.700%

Not really much to report on today. This week has been slow. Not much going on. It's cold outside and now windy. I've got everything secured for winter now. Put the cover on the water cooler. Stashed everything in the shed. I still need to take stuff to the dump. I'll do that next week.

My Samurai is running better. I still need to get an air cleaner and spark plugs. I'm still waiting for the Title to come in the mail also. I can't register it until I get the Title. Kinda sucks.

BMG50 has been running well. No problems since I put the new relay's up. I guess the aluminum boxes did the trick. I guess I'll really find out next summer when it gets hot again.

I don't know if I've said anything about this yet, but Pipers has been sold. I'm crossing my fingers that I can keep my relay up there. The current owners have said that it will be alright with the new owners. So I guess it's all good. Otherwise I'll have to figure out a new place to put it.

Another thing that I might not have mentioned yet is that I'm writing a new inventory system on my own. I've decided that it's never going to get done by my current employer, so I'm going to do it myself. It's going to be an affiliate based system with private party sales via PayPal and CC orders. That should make me a few bucks. This way I'll make money on every customer that joins the system instead of just a set salary each month.

Oh yeah, one thing did happen to me. I found out finally that I do owe $2000 to the IRS. It seems that I had to pay Self Employment Tax on the $7000 that Jane made making skate parks. I just lumped it into regular tax. And the thing that really gets me is that Turbo Tax said that I would get back $1300 that year. So the IRS paid me that money and now I have to pay it back. I'll never use Turbo Tax again, that's for sure. Every year that I've used Turbo Tax, I have had to pay money back to the IRS later that year. I'll just do my own Taxes for now on, or hire someone to do them.

Anyway, I need to get back to work.

We got the Samurai running better now. We just need an air filter and spark plugs to finish it off. I still need to check the oil. What we did was cut the catalytic converter off and welded a new tail pipe onto the missing section. Now it has way more horse power. I can actually get up to 40 on our road out front. Still needs some more work on it. But it's a nice ride anyway.

Today was Randy's birthday party. It was fun. We played Soul Calibur for hours and hours on his Playstation 2. I'm getting OK at it. We had dinner and desert, cake and ice cream, then watched a movie. Randy is now 28 years old.

Well, my dad is off to NC. And just minutes after he was on the road Jane's grandparents drove up with their fifth wheeler. So we plugged them into the grid and their all set to stay for however long they want. It's kinda funny because now we have three fifth wheel trailers in our back yard. I call it the Kenoyer trailer park. ;-)

Adventures in Used Car Land.

So my dad found a Suzuki Samurai for Jane. It's a really nice car. He bought it on lean sale in CA. Problem is that we can not register it in NV without the proper title. So we drive to CA and register it, pay the back fees ($135), then drive back to NV. Then I put insurance on it and go to DMV to register it. Oops... I can't put it in my name because the title is in my dads name. Can change the title until CA sends it to us via mail. So I have to wait.

Jane is driving the pickup right now because the 323 is just about dead. The back wheel is about ready to fall off. I went to change the water and the valve broke off. That car is just falling apart.

The Samurai is still not running right. It may be the catalytic converter, carburetor, or one cylinder not firing. I bought a book on it and I'm going to tear out the catalytic converter. If that does not work I'll check the carb and clean it up. Hopefully I can get this thing running in a few weeks and we will have another car.

I might sell the pickup and get another car later if Jane does not like the Samurai. But I'm thinking that she will like it.

So I wanted to check out the GPLed P2Pwall firewall program. I go to download it and they want me to give them my email address and fill out some form about my opinion about SCO. That's total bull so here is the files.

It's GPL, so I can distribute them just fine.

I've noticed that since I installed Panther my sound has been very low. Sometimes I can reboot and the sound is better, but then it gets lower after a while. Sometimes so low I can't even hear any sound. Has anyone else noticed this?