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Updates soon. To keep you busy, check out my twitter page.

It’s a more ‘global’ status/away message.

Eat breakfast
shower
bike to denver with simon
enjoy lunch in denver
do presentation for work in denver
start back around 4
shower
awesome dinner with brandon
campus crusade
brett’s house to figure out some lin alg
tim’s house by Morrison Rd & S Kipling St
games and hangout
drive home
finish linear algebra
sleep

I (thought I) had the bug fixed last week to driving state, got a control arm replaced with some new berings. Had 3 wheels repaired, I was back on the road. Today I was getting around town, drove to the bike shop, school, and was getting ready to get on 6th ave (55 mph) and as I pulled up to the intersection I heard a clicking noise from the back. I just went through the intersection and pulled into a neighborhood to figure out what the noise is. I poked around with it for a while, and decided I should just get it home (about 1 mile away.) I do a U-Turn then the click becomes a clunk and the car won’t go forward, permi-neutral. I’ll spare you all the details. She at least was nice about where she gave up. Talked to the shop I had do the last repairs on it, and his buddy who worked for a tow company picked it up for me tonight. I’ll hopefully hear some bad news tomorrow.

Now four months ago someone left me a note on my windshield. “Hey, do you want to buy another straight VW-Bug call…” I kept the note around, but never called, it disappeared into my room. Well Sunday I cleaned my room and found the note- I gave the number a call tonight. Guy lives by Idaho Springs, but happened to be in town, I meet him at 9 o’clock PM, within a hour of talking to him. I gotta do some research, but I really liked the car and the owner. It’ll take some work, but this bug is really straight. No cancer (rust), no dents, the engine deck was cleaner than mine (and I rebuilt and cleaned mine just a year ago!) It is an autostick, but supposedly it runs, and sometimes works. You guys may be going, “you want to buy a car that doesn’t work?”, but I’m thinking “if it works sometimes, only one part should really be bad.” It’s a 1968, and my baby is a ‘69 so some sharing could even happen.

I’ll keep you up on the adventure.

First, check out CodaHale.com that lets you update your twitter account from quicksilver. Then Ted added Growl support to it.

I decided this is exactly what I needed to use Twitter, except I already do this to update my iChat Status Message. I added three lines to the code, that while it updates Twitter it also changes your iChat Status Message.

Maybe next version I can figure out how to push the changes to Facebook!

To get it going, follow the CodaHale.com blog instructions, but just use this script and put it where you need.