Today’s and tomorrow’s job will be to replace the closet shelves that were so helpfully destroyed by Apollo. There used to be a number of shelves, hanging clothes, sweaters, etc. in that empty space. The closet shelves were probably a bit over their intended mass capacity when this large feline… …decided to leap from the …
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Minty Boost
I ran into a bit of an issue at Dragon*Con; my phone refused to survive long enough for any useful activity. I have an HTC Evo 4G, with a notoriously short battery life. I purchased it a little over a year before Dragon*Con. In other words, I had it with me at the Con in …
Dead Electronics
Our CD player is dead. Long live the digital media player. Our 400 disc changer seems to have given up the ghost this evening. I pushed PLAY on random when I got home because I was too lazy to go get my iPod and, hey, it’s there after all, filled with music. “Tick. Tick tick. …
Sewing Machine Problem
We have a problem. Our problem is this: This is a Singer Model 347, built in the sixties (it looks like) and it seems to be a sewing machine that can do what we need. However, it has exactly three speeds: Off ON! Manual The ON! is the problem, in the sense that there are …
Weekend Project
I had a very brief weekend project which I finally took care of, because I happened to be going to Home Depot and could pick up the wood. I built THIS! I’m no carpenter, but my father did teach me a few things about putting pieces of wood together. I know the basics, and I …
Network Storage
The conversion to Network Storage and automatic data duplication continues. For a while now, Jenn and I have been (manually) backing up our computers to an external hard drive using a movable SATA plug in. Two of these HDDs have been our playground with one being kept in an off-site location for security against fires …
Fun Holiday Weekend!
In case it hasn’t been explicitly published, Jenn and I are putting our house on the market. Reasons are various but the main one is that we want to live closer in to town. We’re thinking Decatur, Oakbrook, Kirkwood, East Atlanta, Grant Park, something like that. We don’t plan to start looking very hard until …
Ridding House of Crap, Part XXIV
I’ve had some computers and associated peripherals lying around for a long time. One of these computers has moved from NY to TX to TX to GA to GA and will never again be moved unless that move is to an electronics disposal center or a person who wants spare parts. During this time, as …
Tradition!
It’s a tradition when you’ve done it twice, right? In this case, my new tradition is to count, stack, and wrap the coins that have accumulated in my presence. The last time I did this was when we had just moved to Lubbock and I was in the middle of six months of unemployment. Now …
Well Begun, Half Done
Something must have happened today while I was at work because this is the view outside my window. As I mentioned on twitter, it rained hard today, so I’m surprised they found time to do any work at all. At least they managed to get the rest of the shingles off and do half of …