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Just awoke from a long winters nap, about a seven hour nap! I got home around four thirty, long day at work, last day of a week on call. Being on call is a mixd bag. Sometimes it's not much different from a nomarl week, other than having to go in on the weekend, other times you can't seem to get away from the place.This one wasin't bad, but just ( Read more... ) -
October country
Well, I guess its time for a long overdue update. Summer blew by in a flash this year, and things are still rolling by way too fast for my taste. I usually prefer a leisurly approach to life in general. The insanity started last memorial day when I had some very close friends up to camp for a cookout and discovered that things weren't going well ( Read more... ) -
Arabian Nightmare
One of the reasons I started on LJ was to document dreams. Every once in a while, usually during a power nap in the afternoon I'll have some epically strange dream so vivid It could be a movie if I could get it from skull to Dvd before I forget it. I've dreamed feature legnth cartoons before but usually it's more like something from the twilight ( Read more... ) -
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After many months of malaise, I'm back. Spring is slowly dawning on the frozen tundra of Northern NY, the first crop of robins died of exposure and were replaced by a second wave who seem to be thriving, the penguins have all been shipped back to Antarctica via Fed ex overnight, and the last polar bears have been dye'd a convincing dark brown and ( Read more... ) -
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The chimney is up, although not quite functional yet, (still have some bracing to do), and this warm spell is supposed to last for a few more days. It's amazing how much a mid-winter thaw improves my mood. When the temps hover around zero I tend to hibernate next to the TV a lot more, and any ambitions I have seem to leave. I'm far enough North of ( Read more... ) -
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AHHH friday ! No more running around enhancing shareholder value. Well for a few days at least. This weekends project is going to be the installation of a chimney on the roof of the new addition to the laboratory, and installation of a wood stove so I can free myself from the tyranny of National Greed's natural gas divsion. Hardest part is going to ( Read more... ) -
Riding the Bullet
Ten days into the new year allready. Technically the next decade won't start until next year, but after looking back at this one I'm calling it done now. First, a little background, then the reason for my Steven King reference will become apparent. About twelve years ago I was living in a small resort town on Lake Ontario, very nice place, tourists ( Read more... ) -
X-Mas
Well its christmas eve and the shopping is finished, I'm off for a few days and I'm planning on painting one of my apartments before the new tennant moves in on the first, also working on the addition to the lab I started last fall. Going to my brothers tomorrow for the annual gift exchange etc. MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY! -
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Wow what a weekend, I'm on call til wednesday and most of the machinery my company owns is junk, six power plants between seven and thirty miles from my home. some of this stuff has been running close to one hundred years with very little maintenence, and the powers that be don't seem to grasp the concept that a crisis repair is'int the same as an ( Read more... )