The bio-gardener finished up his work early this week and the wildlife has moved in. The first night the mulch was in, there was a toad sitting on top of the berm. A day later I was out watering, a little yellow breasted bird flew down and ate some of the beautyberries. Friday, I saw a hummingbird ( Read more... )

Vacation pictures are all up. Toward the end I was reduced to making comments like "yellow flower", "sea", etc. I learned that one can take too many pictures and there are some places where it would be better if you didn't lug your camera.

Nora had a huge bladder stone which we were trying to dissolve by feeding her special food. Well, it ( Read more... )

Oh, yea, lego pictures. I haven't so much taken any, but I did finish up the last set on Sunday. I would have finished on Saturday, but I couldn't move my right arm after applying the sealer on the plaster in the bathroom. I also would have posted more, but books called to me and I did nothing but read for a bit. Yes, I was even late to work ' ( Read more... )

Thursday I decided to see if I could find a way to set the umask for the GUI apps on the Mac. I dig around and find I need to set NSUmask to the decmical equivalent of the octal umask. For some reason I thought I read that you should set this in enviroment.plist, which is in ~/.MacOSX, and maybe I did read it, but I'm not going to try and find ( Read more... )

The joy of a joystick. I got one this weekend and I might actually finish The Lego Game. I can actually fly, not well, but I didn't break into many lego pieces after the 3rd time through.

The Batman Collection should be here on Friday. Ahhhh, nothing like a weekend of building legos. I'll see if I can manage to take some pictures.

If I ever say I'm going to plaster a room again, especially a small room like a bathroom, stop me. Yesterday, I hit a raised spot on a wall causing the trowel to flip out of my hand, hit my pants (leaving a big blob of plaster) and then land on the floor in a pool of yellow plaster. Stupid wall! This morning I got plaster on my shoes and then on ( Read more... )

Warning: I've been plastering the bathroom for most of the afternoon. The following probably makes no sense.

So, I saw this recipe on slashfood for Irish Stout Cake with Whiskey-Sour Icing and thought, I should make that. A few days later, I relalized I didn't bookmark the recipe and I really wanted to try making a cake with Guiness in it, ( Read more... )

That's right, my veggie king prawn contains no animal factor. That's good since I just ate a bunch of it in "coconut shrimp noodles". John says it looks like shrimp, has the consistency of shrimp, and doesn't taste at all like shrimp. He did say it tasted good in the dish. 3 of the dogs liked the veggie shrimp (the other one was outside so she ( Read more... )

Long time no post. I had a couple of weeks of Duck Wisdom. At first I thought it was because I was sick, but I was still not quite right even after getting well. Turns out my filter was on high in my office. Too much ozone. Why was the filter on high? I fried my linux box and there was a great need to get the magic smoke out of my office. ( Read more... )

I started reading The Universe in a Single Atom The Convergence of Science and Spirituality by the Dalai Lama and decided to read the promotional blurbs on the back of the jacket. The last one was written by Karen Armstrong and I thought, hmmm, that name sound familiar, so I look down at the pile of books I just got and their it was, Holy War ( Read more... )