Cat Lady and I went to a local dinner theater production of the musical Footloose this evening. We had a very nice time. It was clear that these folks were working very hard, many of them juggling multiple roles on stage and off. Remind me (when I have enough money to sponsor them in a significant way) that they could use a significant upgrade ( Read more... )

Yeah, I should be blogging more, but there's some sort of Law where, when you're trying to break away to go on vacation, that's the precise time that all of your clients appear with new work, and demand that everything be delivered yesterday.

Here's a quick EULA snapshot; note the button in the far lower right:


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Cat Lady and I had decided a while back to split our New York visit into two trips: Corning GlassFest in May, and then we just got back from Seneca Lake, a bit further north. Our original plan, the reason why we had made two separate trips in the first place, was to go to the Finger Lakes WineFest this past weekend... except that plan changed ( Read more... )

Reading user/privacy agreements is often as exciting as watching paint dry, but I did find one nugget in the Drivewise agreement from Allstate: the list of collected data. Among several interesting (to me) points, I finally have an explicit definition of what they consider a hard brake: a deceleration of 8mph (or more) per second ( Read more... )

The leak in the kitchen had been getting worse, and this week, Cat Lady finally had to get that section of the roof replaced. Not. Cheap ( Read more... )

I may have been the largest contributor of non-promotional #GlassFest tweets. No, there wasn't any contest or anything for that hashtag... why do you ask? ;-)

Cat Lady was absolutely kicking herself when she saw that there was an active market for vintage Pyrex. She had ended up donating some still-functional antiques in the past, not being able ( Read more... )

I finished recording the third tech course for my primary voiceover client this week, and there's actually a fourth one that's already been in progress for a while. The timing worked out very well, since Cat Lady and I are driving up today for a quick weekend getaway to GlassFest in Corning, NY. Once again, we'll be staying at an AirBnB. (Yes, ( Read more... )

My daughter Sara has (apparently) been settling into her new job and home in Los Alamos, NM. She's also gotten back into blogging, and her writing is quite good, if I may kvellCat Lady and I went to play bingo last night. It was the first time I ever played. While I'm not a fan of gambling, I was still able to have fun. (I'm the type that keeps ( Read more... )

[Letter sent to two of our friends during our recent trip.]


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I was able to capture some thoughts from a dream I had, which was almost certainly triggered from our visit to the Franklin Institute Saturday, plus this article (that my dad had sent me) on using high-speed video to sense vibrations in a room (e.g., as picked up by a plant leaf) and backsolving the original audio that created said vibrations ( Read more... )