Year: 2008
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Holidays…
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Have I mentioned I dislike holidays? There’s just too much stress involved for me to have any sort of enjoyment during this season. Now, granted, a lot of the stress…
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Mr. Heater…
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The heater for my garage arrived today; an 85,000 btu/hr propane powered commercial heater… I should be able to work on the WarWagon now even in the cold – as…
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WarWagon part two…
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The parts I ordered for the WarWagon ‘arrived’ yesterday… I found the four foot by two foot box lying in the snow under the mailboxes at the end of the road…
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Vista…
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The new laptop came with Vista, so once again I’m using Vista… Have I mentioned I despise Vista? There’s just so much of it to hate I’m not sure where…
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Of WarWagons and Winter…
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Yesterday I purchased the new intake and carburetor for the WarWagon… An Edelbrock Performer intake and 1405 600cfm carb. The big-box-o-stuff should be here tomorrow, but I don’t see the weather…
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New computer…
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Well, I picked up a new computer yesterday. The 24″ iMac I had was awesome, but I spent so much time in “Bootcamp” (a Windows OS partition via OSX) that…
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Bailouts…
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You may have heard that the US government gave several large US banks a big loan to try and fix our fubar economy – which was caused by these banks…
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Winter… Finally…
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Winter has finally come to the high country and it has been snowing on and off for four days now, which is nice. The down side to this is that…
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The day of Wrath…
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The biggest thing in gaming since Zork happened last night at 12:01 – people you know will not be at work today, families will be loosing children and spouses for…
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Gaming for a cause…
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Those of you who play “WoW” might have heard something about tonight’s “Running to the Bulls for Ezra”. Rather than type a lot, I’ll just link some things here: This…
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New regime…
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Well, it looks fairly official that the US has its first non “old white guy” sitting in the big chair. I’ll not go into who I voted for as its…
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It is a quarter to two in the morning…
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And I’m still awake. I didn’t go in in to work yesterday, and I’m not going in today either. The medication I’m on is making me all sorts of sick:…
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Home again, home again…
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I’m back home again. Tired, sore, and planning on a hot shower and some sleep. Once again I survived… Though their aim is getting better. 😉 I’ll be on Augmentin…
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I’m in the hospital…
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I’ve managed to get a fairly major case of cellulitis in my lower right leg, which has had me in the hospital since Sunday morning. The good news is I’m…
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The gate is still open…
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And it has been open since 1986 at least… For anyone who’s read Jack Chalker’s “Well of Souls” novels, you’ll understand what I mean when you see the following: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturn%27s_hexagon…
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Cats…
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Marshal is on his second bag of this new cat food I’m trying him on; Innova “Evo”. This is supposed to be the best dry cat food made, period, and…
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IM…
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Ok, ok… Folks seem to want to talk at me often enough that I guess I have to consider this “Instant Messenger” thing… See, I’m not one for impromptu conversations…
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Of Kings, Liches, and a bit of Wrath…
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Well, I got into the Wrath of the Lich King beta, which is the next expansion for “World of Warcraft”. What this means for the world in general is that…
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Another week begins…
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Its the start of a new week up here in the thin air, and as I sit here watching the sun come up over Legault Mountain with my cup of…