Seth Scrimsher is moving into the space we’ve been trying to make an apartment/bed and breakfast. [Actually we're thinking "Bed and Brew" so we can provide local coffees or local beer to those visiting instead of giving them our bacon.] We first offered the place to him when he told us he was buying Tonka Seafoods [i love Alaska smoked salmon] and would have to move out of his company owned housing. That was about two months ago. We talked to him about it again a week ago. Both times he didn’t sound very interested. Yesterday he called and said he’d take us up on it – oh, and can he “move in tomorrow?” So last night Cena got the bathroom cleared out and clean and i worked on packing up books. Today we were able to move everything out of the bedroom and living area of the “apartment” that is not yet “apart”. Now the future kitchen/dining area is the only space that needs a lot of work.

One of the planned improvements to our house has been to change a metal windowless door that exits to the back deck and hot tub into a French Door. A few months ago i ordered a nice door that includes blinds in-between the glass. I finally took the time to get the thing [mostly] installed. Below you can see that The door trim wasn’t even entirely on to begin with. I think i should leave the project at just about that level of completion.

I pulled the door and window out [yeah right - like it was that easy] and wasn’t looking forward to having to deal with the outlet that is below the window. The door that i bought was “right swing” which means that when looking at the door from the outside that the right door is the primary entry.

I knew that the wall wasn’t load bearing so i didn’t fret too much about having the ideal door framing. I left a few inches above the doors to ensure space for settling (although hopefully the house has already settled as much as it will). I re-routed the electrical line – it came in over the existing door, between the door and window, to the outlet and continued along the wall. I moved it above the door and then down the wall through the opening i had where part of the window had been.

I cut some of the scrap T111 siding and some of the sheet rock i had removed to patch the hole from the window. Putting in the new door took both of us. Cena held the door in place while i tried to level and plumb it. Eventually i had enough screws in the frame to keep it in place. I used spray foam insulation on one side. caulk on the other, and scrap fiberglass above the door. I still need to finish the trim but plan on doing that and the trim on the windows that are already in when i finish an interior door and a small interior wall.

Yeah, there is drywall to patch but i’d like to leave that until we’re ready to fix up all of the drywall in the house.

We’ve been watching a lot of movies worthy of reviews lately. I had to get to this one before details became fuzzy – although i don’t know how i could ever forget David Hasselhoff (as himself) flushing his poo on an airplane and the resulting falling frozen turd giving a woman a concussion resulting in sexual deviancy. The director of Hairspray brings us A Dirty Shame featuring Johnny Knoxville, Tracey Ullman and Selma Blair (with a pair of ginormous breasts). The film is irreverent (you probably gathered that much), does not have a sensible plot, and does not have enough car chases, explosions or bacon to be in my list of favorite movies. But it was kind of surreal and if taken as a piece of comedy meant to be irreverent and have a nonsensical plot then it just might be enjoyable. Do not watch this with the kids around or with your mom in the room.

When i lived in Utah i took a Wilderness First Responder course in Moab. Part of the course fee included an extensive first aid kit. Ever since i have kept a substantial emergency medical kit in my car. I use a fairly large toiletry bag because it has many transparent compartments.

• Nail Trimmers
• Tweezers
• Oral thermometer
• 2 oz bottle of hand sanitizer
• 1 oz tube of Neosporin
• 3/16 oz tube of Orajel
• Small bottle of Aleve
• Small strobe light
• Metal signal mirror
• Cold pack
• Moleskin
• Reflective blanket
• Whistle
• Latex gloves
• CPR mask
• Small sewing kit
• 2 Clif bars
• 2 candles
• Barbecue grill lighter
• Flashlight
• Stethoscope and BP cuff
• 2 rolls sterile gauze
• 1 Ace bandage
• 1 roll medical tape
• 1 box of Tums
• Assortment of small self adhesive bandages
• Scads of alcohol swabs
• Tampons
• Packet of Benadryl creme
• Advil cold & sinus tablets
• Immodium
• Dayquil and Nyquil

Most often i seem to be getting into the kit for someone else while at work for either a headache or heartburn.

We leave for Anchorage today. Tomorrow i have a few meetings for the Alaska Recreation and Park Association. We’re looking forward to dining out, shopping, and watching tv. We’re not looking forward to the colder temperatures, the traffic, and the increased darkness. The aurora forecast isn’t that great for while we’ll be up there. We leave on Sunday so it’s just a quick trip.

I guess Bailee had Claire Danes say “hi” to her today which reminded me of the few celebrities that i have seen. While in the Newark airport on our way to Rochester for Christmas Cena spotted Penn Jillette in the food court we were in. He would be hard to miss because he is a big man and has a distinct voice. We went to Penn & Teller’s show while in Vegas last time and i definitely recommend it. It just so happens that on a previous trip to Vegas we saw a portion of Domino being filmed. We saw Ian Ziering and somebody else. Obviously i was starstruck. I saw Bush Sr. once – at a Boy Scout Jamboree. Who have you seen?

For me it began while watching one of the Alias seasons on DVD. Cena and I noticed that in nearly every episode one of the characters said the word “insane” and i blogged about how Alias is Insane at the time. Ever since then we have been sensitive to the mention of the word. You wouldn’t believe how frequent the word comes up. It’s just insane.

Check out, for instance the insane submissions to Digg over the last seven days that include the word insane in the title alone. Interestingly, a search for crazy on Digg found about twice as many instances in the title of submissions.

But YouTube is completely insane – right now there are over 21,000 videos in the results for a search for the word. To be fair, the word “crazy” ends up with over 23,000 results. But consider that there are some big hits with music videos like Gnarles Barkley’s Crazy (over 1,400), Aerosmith’s Crazy (over 400), Beyonce’s Crazy in Love (over 1,500), Buckcherry’s Crazy Bitch (a few hundred), Simple Plan’s Crazy (around 1,800), and of course there are well over 4000 instances of Crazy Frog variations. That gives us less than 14,000 videos with “crazy” in the title. A similar study of the results for insane left me with Cypress Hill’s Insane in the Brain (over 500), Infected Mushroom’s Becoming Insane (around 50), and just over 1,100 videos by Insane Clown Posse. Apparently the music industry is not enamored with the word “insane”. How can a word like “crazy” have fewer instances than it’s stronger synonym? I wondered if the whole internet was crazy or insane.

A search on Google for crazy yields 276 million pages and “craziness” shows 3 million with 1.1 million pages with both words. Google found only 42 million pages that were insane and another 21 million with “insanity” with 1.3 million pages having both words.

What about movies? How many movies have insane or crazy in their title. Thanks to IMDB there are 436 crazy films and only 16 insane movies. That seemed sort of low. Searching for “insanity” turned up another 24.

• Using Google’s ratio the internet is 81% crazy and 18% insane.
• Digg submissions are 66% crazy and 33% insane.
• YouTube (minus the videos listed) is 68% insane and 31% crazy.
• The music industry (using above songs) is 89% crazy and 11% insane.
• The movie industry is 91% crazy and 8% insane.

Conclusions
Using Google as a baseline we can see that YouTube clearly has users that prefer videos of people behaving insanely over crazily. Digg submissions are more true to reality with the ratio coming much closer to the gospel that is Google. The music and film industries are not firmly planted in reality. They gloss over life and paint things as only crazy when sometimes they truly are insane. If it were not for Cypress Hill and Insane Clown Posse we would all be crazy.