After yesterday, all I managed today was the weekly grocery shopping, a bit of furniture painting, and the roasting of the coffee (a Guatamala Huehuetenango Finca Reglaito, from Sweet Maria's). * * * Further good news, no caualties reported in the last week by DoD. Ciao!
Continue reading...Last night, we finished our celebration of Marcia's birthday (which was back on the 15th) with a viewing of the latest Bond flick: Skyfall. Good movie, excellent action, good pacing, and while it's a tad predictable, it almost has to be with a franchise as venerable as Bond. The rest of the weekend was pretty full, too: woodworking, company party, shopping, washing of cars ... a long list. * * * 33 days - that's our interval since the prior casualty announcement from DoD. Wow! Still, today we got word that Staff Sgt. Jonathan D. Davis, 34, of Kayenta, Arizona,…
Continue reading...Or something like that. I neglected to check in last night - I actually stayed off the computer all day yesterday. I checked email on the phone a couple of times, for reasons about to become apparent, but that was all. Woodshop work, and Top Gear UK rounded out my Sunday. Saturday was a big system upgrade project. We'd been preparing for the event for the better part of a year: endless cycles of build, test, and document. Towards the end I was losing sleep thinking about it each night. Finally the day came, and all of the prep work…
Continue reading...Thankfully, we didn't take the winter storm hit that nailed the North East - one of the "advantages"of being mid-Atlantic, I guess. It was quite windy, especially over Friday night into Saturday morning, that much did swing south, but other than a bit of rain on Friday, there was no precipitation for us. All it takes is half an inch of snow to grind this place nearly to a halt. I will take note that my 328i really does do well in the snow and ice. Earlier in the week, I was joking that I'd have a chance to see…
Continue reading...Ah, but you see, the Ravens ensured that I wouldn't have to watch football this year. But this morning I did get rolling on the first shelving install (the new five-foot wide unit), following shopping... Lexi always has to "help", but actually through most of this process today she was a good girl, and slept on a chair in the library. I unloaded all of those shelves into stacks in the guest bedroom, then hauled the shelves downstairs. I'm going to make use of the white one in my storage room, for paints and such. The brown one is a…
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