Aaaaargh! Frost!
What happens when you put vegetables into your garden on the twelfth of May? You get a frost on the fourteenth of May, that's what! I lost just a few plants, not all of them ... but seriously?
Continue reading...The journey continues...
Dan steps up
A big shout-out to Dan Seto, of Misc. Ramblings fame. He's one of the infamous Daynotes Gang, joining (being joined? forced into Internet servitude?) the group shortly after I did, back in the earliest days of the new millenium (or possibly at the end of the last, I don't have a precise record at hand). Dan stepped up to the plate and covered Daynotes.com's registration for the next couple of years, so we're good most of the way through 2015! Thanks, Dan! * * * I was amused to note that NetSol will let you spend nearly 3300$US online to…
Continue reading...Busy Sunday
When I laid out the doors and shelves and such for finishing, there wasn't room to leave the cabinet carcass in the woodshop and still have room to setup for roasting coffee. Coffee wins, so I dragged the carcass sections upstairs, assembled and temporarily loaded them up: I ran out of time to get any more finishing done on the remaining pieces, sadly. I did get the main garden up and running today, though... There's 24 tomato plants, 12 pepper plants, beans, cucumbers, zucchini, potatoes, etc. I still have to get the herb box cleared and up, as well as…
Continue reading...Finishing a cabinet; Ch-ch-ch-changes a'coming.
Finishing the corner cabinet I'm making progress, as you can see. This cabinet may be upstairs as early as Wednesday of the upcoming week. Depends if I can get enough coats of poly on the doors and shelves. Pictured above, I'm at the poly stage for the face and insides - the dark teal sides are already three coats and cured. After supper, I took those down, laid out the doors and shelves, and first-coated the backs. Tomorrow, a quick sanding and I'll get the second coat on. * * * While I am not going to have the liberty…
Continue reading...LOPSA-East #FTW
I got back this morning at about 11:30 following a fantastic LOPSA-East conference. I entertained such subjects as Tom Limoncelli's Evil Genius 101, Kyle Fulton's Automation in the Cloud with Puppet, Shumon Huque's Using and Migrating to IPv6, and Matt Simmons's Intro to SSDs. The Friday night keynote was delivered by Marcus Ranum of varied and interesting fame - his talk was funny, accurate, and depressing as hell. Just sayin'. The New Brunswick Hyatt is venue for the conference, and it was excellent. The food was superb (in general, not just in the context of a tech conference), and the…
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