All posts by Blake Swopes

Blake Swopes is a disabled former Linux Systems Administrator from Southern California. Due to chronic pain, he can no longer spend much time on a keyboard, so this site has become largely archival.

Greetings from Elk City, Oklahoma!

I’m hiding from the weather at a Comfort Inn in Elk City. Just drove through a nasty patch of rain and wind that scared the crap out of me. There are severe weather warnings from north texas at the OK border heading north to canada.

Looks like only a handfull of my iFlickr photos actually posted. I’ll see what I can do about that. Unfortunately, I didn’t bring a cable to actually grab photos off my XTi, but I do have some more iphone photos to upload and I have that cable.

I have issues…

Is it a bad sign that I’m looking through my friend’s wedding registry and contemplating what gift to buy based on the likelihood that it would be used as a weapon…

The block of knives is just not going to work. I will not buy something that could potentially be used to murder my friend.

I may go with the set of pans… sure, they can be used as a weapon, but I suspect she’d be the one doing the whacking, whereas the knife block is fair game… I’m not sure if that is sexist on my part, or if I’m just basing it on family history…

Maybe I should just get them family guy season 1… that sounds safe.