Wow, when it comes, it comes. Yesterday we started the day with a tiny smidge of snow outside, just a bit that was left. When told that Firefly’s mom had a couple of inches at their house I said “no way, that’s not possible!” Evening comes and it’s snowing more, a couple of inches on […]
First Snow of 2006! Read Post »
Today I hit the big 3-1. Yikes. Not quite time to get myself a red sports car and go budgie jumping just yet though. Yesterday I celebrated my pre-birthday-day by helping Firefly and FireflyMom doing plumbing so we could have water in the house again. Around 11pm or so we finally turned the water main
Happy Birthday To Me (Again) Read Post »
While migrating stuff to the $newbox today I had to go in search of an install CD from a program that I had put on the $oldbox and ended up digging through a bunch (read: several spindles) of burnt CDs and DVDs today. Ugh, how fast things change. While installing the new box I don’t
Going through Burnt CDs Read Post »
Welp, Halloween came and went with nary a growl. Sounded like most of the kidlings showed up before I got home last night, and there were only 3 or 4 that showed up after I got back. None of them looked like they were as cute (or appropriate) as Sillz’s son, shown there dressed in
Halloween Is Over, Pass the Candy Read Post »
FireflyMom was over today keeping herself busy by helpfully working on the deck. She’s the only one that really knows what’s going on with it to be honest. Anyway, somewhere along the way she helped Firefly install a cat door at the front entrance. I got home and began the training as I have done
Long long ago, when I was…. maybe 12 or so, so around 1987, I really don’t remember, I created a time capsule. For some reason it popped into my head today that maybe it was time to open it. It’s a pretty lame time capsule if I remember right. I had a cookie tin or
Time Capsule, To Open or Not to Open Read Post »
Google recently released their code search engine, as you may or may not know. Just for fun, I googled myself. Most of the (few) entries were expected. A couple of mentions for bugs I posted, and some for minor contributions to a couple of projects. There are two I am a bit stumped on though…
Finding Myself in Google Code Search Read Post »
This fall has been crazy TV-wise. Even with my MythTV box I’m still not able to keep up. Here’s what’s on my virtual plate right now: Monday Prison Break Season 2 of the continuing story of a bunch of cons who escape from prison. It’s a 24-type story where you have to keep up with
Fall TV Schedule… Too Much! Read Post »
Ugh… other than a delicious shellfish dinner for my Dad’s birthday today (Happy birthday Dad!), and sleeping in late, what a day. Started nice, a lazy day around the house, get some cleaning done, laundry, maybe some surfing or gaming maybe, you know, standard stuff. I started the laundry, went upstairs. I knew that my
The last couple of weeks have seen a lot of work on the backyard and deck. Here’s a quick pano (pardon the split ladder in the middle 🙂 showing things. Note the barkmulch filled planting boxes around the perimeter, the almost fininished lower deck portion (center right) and now-we’re-starting-to-put-on-deck-boards top section with Firefly and FireflyMom