Sacrifices on our behalf
The day winds down, and I have my obligation to fulfill. Our condolences to these fallen warriors:
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There be tomatoes here
It makes me happy to find the first tomatoes set in the garden. The basil is going like gangbusters, too. Just thought I'd share that snap. Back later.
Continue reading...Not insane after all
At least, I'm not insane for any of the usual reasons. A few times over the last couple of weeks, my Linux system here would be dark. When I got home from work ... when I woke up in the morning. That's not normal, because as the home storage, DNS, and mail server, off is a bad state to be in. I figured it was the system, though, and was waiting for some logged evidence of the sub-system I need to replace. Last night, I left the Windows box running, too, mostly out of laziness. This morning, both systems were…
Continue reading...Triskaidekaphobia
Not really. But it is our thirteenth wedding anniversary. Marcia and I were married in Sunnyvale back in '98, and we're pleased to have surprised almost everyone with the longevity of our second date, errr, marriage. My present to her this year was to wake her up and tell her that she could go ahead and get the Handi Quilter HQ24 Fusion system with something called ProStitcher (which means that Marcia hands the computer a design, the computer stitches the quilt). It doesn't even sparkle and I got her to cry. Yeah, it's a few years earlier than we originally…
Continue reading...First Post! Natali Portman and Hot Grits!
Yeah, I've always wanted to have my own little bit of Slash* over here. If you're looking for the older stuff, you can start over there, on the Site Map. Search on the main site is currently broken, and that's on my to-do list. So, WordPress reappears on the OrbDesigns site. I'm going to be moving Marcia over to WP soon, and figured I'd better be using it first. Hmmm ... what about pictures?
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