Hot, hazy, and humid-summer has fully arrived. I had a lousy night of sleep. It was just too hot, and the fan was making too much noise. Need to think about hauling out the A/C today. I almost hate to do it this early. I didn't have to until mid-July last year ( Read more... )

Miracle Max: Now, all dead...well, with all dead, there's usually only one thing that you can do.

Inigo: What's that?

Miracle Max: Go through his clothes and look for loose change.

More progress:

• Make list.
• Reroute heating system flow.
• Replace porch lights.
• Move ceiling light fixtures around in back room, kitchen, and office.
• Clean ( Read more... )

Putting a notch on the vacation to-do list.

• Make list.
• Reroute heating system flow.

( Full copper re-pipe... )

Talked to my dad tonight. He's doing a bit better. They have him doing some gentle exercises to rehab the shoulder, but he's still in some pain, and his right arm is useless, which is killing him. As he says, all he does at work anymore is talk on the phone and write, and now he can't write. OTOH, he's stopped wearing the sling, so there is ( Read more... )

Back home in the land of cool weather. I actually turned my furnace back on today.

( The rest of the weekend... )

Sitting in my room, waiting for the hospitality suite, posting on dial-up. The wireless in the hotel is a complete mess. Here at the desk the wireless card occasionally tells me its connected, but then the browsers can't find a DNS. If I put the laptop near the door of my room, the card connects immediately, and proclaims that my signal strength is ( Read more... )

So, I made my reservations for the Buffista F2F in New Orleans this morning. Now I'm amazed at myself for how far ahead of the game I am compared to previous years. I usually wait until late to do stuff like this. Of course, part of it was that in previous years I always waited until the hotel was arranged, which usually wasn't until April or so. ( Read more... )

Back home from Maine, and I had great fun there with la_perkins and Tom S. Sunday morning I picked Tom up in Cambridge, and we made it to Deer Isle with little trouble, with the exception of getting stuck for awhile behind a guy on Rt. 3 doing 25 mph while sporting a bumper sticker that said "Maine on the Move." Tom noted that it must have been meant to be ( Read more... )

Speedy is up and running. Installed ULead Video Studio SE, applied all the patches, updated Direct X, and attached the camcorder. Sonuvagun, it actually worked. Well, sort of ( Read more... )