Wow! We’re withstanding wacky, weird winter weather week within which we wait with waning wonder: “When will we waltz with warmth?”

The temperatures in the Salt Lake valley this week are between 10°(F) and 30°(F) (-12° - 0° (C)). Meanwhile, the temperatures at the mountain resorts east of Salt Lake City are 25 degrees warmer!

This seems to happen every winter. They call it a “temperature inversion” and bitter cold air gets trapped under a layer of warmer air and it just stays there. So, until we get another substantial storm through the area, we’re stuck in this shivering stuff.

Filing a motion

There’s this guy who’s filed a suit against Iodynamics in small claims court. We’ve looked over his affadavit and determined he filed it in the wrong court. So, rather than go to court, discover the case is thrown out, and have him file again in the right jurisdiction, we decided to file a motion for a change of venue.

This is the first time I’ve ever been involved in anything like this, so this is all new stuff to me. My partner Dave drafted up the document we needed to file. I printed it, signed it in the presence of a notary public, had it notorized, made a copy, sent the copy to the plantiff via certified mail, and delivered the original to the court. Whew.

So, I did all thing to at today. Fun.

If you’re wondering what the lawsuit is all about, I think Dave is planning on publishing everything about this lawsuit online in hopes it will help others who might encounter similar circumstances. Or, perhaps, he hopes it will provi decde people with endless hours of entertainment.

The hyper-condensed version of the story is that the individual who filed the claim was a client of ours in 2002. We had a contract with him that we would develop a website for him and deliver it within 14 days. Several months later, we still hadn’t finished the project because we had been waiting on content, specifications, and information from the client.

Meanwhile, the client became disgruntled and broke off contact with us without paying for work invoiced. We wrote off the bad debt.

In late 2003, this individual contacted us again saying he had found someone else to do his site for him and demanded we give him his domain name (which we registered as part of the original project) or he would take us to court. Our response to the individual was that we would be more than happy to help him if he would take care of the debt he owed.

The result is this lawsuit in which the client claims there was a breach of contract because we didn’t deliver within 14 days like the original contract stated we would.

As far as the domain name is concerned, it expired and some other party snatched it up.

It’s a hard (wood) world to live in

I was itching to do some work on the house tonight, so I installed a small corner piece of wood flooring in the kitchen and installed all the wood flooring in the kitchen pantry closet. That closet still had the house’s original carpet in it which has been replaced everywhere else in the house. So, it’s nice to get rid of the last of that dirty crap.

Christine didn’t like the round white handles on the kitchen cabinets. She felt they didn’t really fit in with the modern style of our stainless steel appliances. So, she got some cans of spray primer and stainless steel-colored spray paint to paint the white handles with.

I was a little relunctant to go along with this, but she tried it with one of them and it looked great. Tonight, she did the rest. It looks so good, I think we’re going to paint the front of the white fridge we got from my mom so it fits in with the stove and dishwasher!

I’m considering getting some lumber tomorrow to start framing in my permenant office in the basement. I think we’ve pretty much decided the office is going to go in the northeast corner of the basement, under the dining area.

On Buffy

I have managed to find the episodes from season 6 I was missing. They are:

• S6E14 - “Older And Far Away”
• S6E15 - “As You Were”
• S6E16 - “Hell’s Bells”

Unfortunately, the S6E14 MPEG file I’ve been able to find is really low-quality. It is about half the size of a normal VCD MPEG file (~200MiB instead of ~400MiB). I think I may hit the IRC channels in search of a regular-size VCD MPEG.

I also found a BitTorrent torrent of Buffy S6 DVDs in PAL format — presumably from Europe where they have already been released.

Could be cool.

On comments

Since I know a few people check out the Fozzologs from time to time to see what new boring thing I’m up to, I’d like to ask for feedback on the Fozzolog facility itself. Since a handful of other people use the software for their own online journals any features I create for my site will eventually make their way into others’ as well. So, what do you like/dislike about it? What kind of features would you want to see?

Christine thought it was dumb that you can’t make comments without signing up with a username and password. She says it will probably discourage comments. What do you think? Should it be blasted wide open so anyone can say anything? Should it allow “anonymous cowards”?