Every couple of weeks I browse through the iPhone App store hoping something catches my eye. 3rd party app development has really taken off – everybody with the SDK and a Macbook is hoping they’ll strike it rich with the next virtual fart machine, beer glass, etc. Sifting through all that useless crap can take some time but occasionally you stumble on a useful or productive application that enhances your iPhone.

This isn’t one of them. In fact, this app is the anti-christ of productivity. Simple to play, addictive and relatively cheap. Three components that make it easy to waste a couple hours staring at your iPhone screen.

Yea, she’s almost a year old and yea, she gets cuter every time I snap a pic. I’ve been so busy trying to get through Christmas and her upcoming Birthday/New Years I haven’t had much time to process the gazillion or so new pics we have but I promise – updated shots coming soon!

Have I done any yet? Nope.

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Two nights ago as I was parking my Jeep in the garage (underground parking), I noticed a pool of water collecting on the floor in an area that’s directly under our unit. The design of my loft building has all the piping exposed so it didn’t take long to find the culprit – apparently we have a slow leak developing inside our water heater. Water is running down the interior tank wall, collecting in the drip pan and then draining out onto the garage floor via a short PVC tube that stubs out below the wood and concrete sub-flooring of our unit. Working as intended, thank god.

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Whoa. Total interface change. I’m keyed on horizontal menus in ver. 2.6 and now everything is vertical with drop-downs. I do like new dashboard but it’s going to take a few days to get used to the layout changes.

Upgrade went smooth and it doesn’t look like any of my plugins choked so I guess at the moment, I’ve got no real complaints about ver. 2.7

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Apparently, if it rains long enough in Atlanta, GA. even the water gets stuck in traffic. Normally the Department of Corrections does an OK job keeping the highways picked up (even though people in Atlanta are horrible when it comes to throwing trash away properly) but during heavy prolonged rain (it’s been coming down for 48 hours straight now), all the trash and leaf litter washes downhill and collects in great big piles. Usually right over a storm drain. As the water backs up onto the highway and slowly starts to flood across each lane, the commuter-crazy Atlantians continue to race pell-mell through the rising water until a D.O.T. HERO unit arrives to shut down the highway. At this point, a couple miles worth of cars/trucks back up across 5 lanes and it pretty much screws the commute for everybody unlucky enough to be on the wrong side of the flood.

I wonder if the D.O.T. guys draw straws to determine which unlucky SOB gets to don hip-boots, wade out into the trash slush with a shovel to uncork the storm grate. At the same time, trying to avoid getting sucked into the Atlanta sewer system as a couple thousand metric tons of highway bilge water drain off the asphalt.