I went to the open house/orientation. It's pretty cool there. And I liked the people I met. So I joined at the $40 level which gives me access to everything but no voting rights or storage space. If I continue to like it there I'll upgrade (budget willing) to the $70 full member level so I can vote and stuff.

(originally posted on dreamwidth, ( Read more... )

I'm considering starting a blog about my adventures in home repair and improvement, appliance repair, correcting the sins of my predecessors, learning as I go, etc, with occasional excursions into other aspects of keeping a home (such as cooking and grocery shopping, pantry organization, and so on ( Read more... )

So, I've been thinking about getting intelligent thermostats. Probably Nests, but the jury's still out on the brand ( Read more... )

Test run done ( Read more... )

So a lot is changing and it doesn't occur to me to post.

bammba_m is living in my attic for a year. She moved in December 1 ( Read more... )

I made post on Dreamwidth Please go there to read and comment on it.

I just suddenly got to wondering: Where is the holotype for H. Sapiens Sapiens?

(originally posted on dreamwidth. I'd like to keep all my comments in one place, so please comment there by creating an openID cross-site login.)

Good evening; I'm Chevy Chase, your top story tonight ( Read more... )

I haven't been sleeping well the last few weeks. The last few days this was exacerbated by the cold clogging up my nose, which interacts poorly with the CPAP. But in general the last few weeks have been sup-par ( Read more... )

So, a gratifying number of you knew what the punctuation mark was, and only one of you couldn't see it.

For those of you who didn't know what it was, it's an interrobang. The thing is, strict grammarians frown on multiple punctuation at the end of a sentence, as in "What the hell is going on here?!" Less so than they used to, but still. Anyway ( Read more... )