The house is really coming together, and I’m starting to think a little bit strategically in terms of what is going to go where. My cleaning philosophy is simple: Pick a spot and clean it. Once you’ve cleaned / organized a patch of space –…
Woke up this morning in our very own house. The lion’s share of our stuff is here, including the real box spring and mattress. So much better for back health than a futon mattress on the floor. We woke up, dressed, and walked over to…
The bathroom seems to be coming together. At least we have a floor, walls, and a ceiling now. We’ve got a line on a vanity that we like – and we appear to have a solution to the issue of tile. I remain astonished by…
node005:~ root# mkdir fooonode005:~ root# rmdir fooonode005:~ root# mkdir foo Can’t even spell “foo” right today.
For the record, here’s what I think we should do to improve health care in the US: Public Clinics: I have no interest in providing or mandating insurance to the whole country. Insured or uninsured really makes no difference to me. What I care about…
I’ve moved. All my historical paper records are in boxes and piled up in my office. I did this deliberately, rather than shoveling them straight into the basement. They’re here and will be *organized* or (better) scanned and destroyed. I’ve realized that I can’t get…
Home again from Atlanta. Since I’ve now exceeded the number of days that they can casually put me on the “visitor” list, I’ve been put in for badging. This will be the lightweight background check version (no outstanding felonies) rather than the “full polygraph” to…
The world is moving in unusual ways today. The cashier at Starbucks talked to me this morning. I was reading my web comics, and while collecting my plate she asked what RSS reader I used (Google). In our brief conversation, I admitted to writing software…
Welcome to the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. Of all the world events I’ve seen, that one seemed most likely at the time to “change everything.” Change, we got … but certainly not the magnitude or scope to qualify as “everything.” In the ensuing years…
Woke late, after much wine and laughter last night. Egg sandwich, packed two cars, drove to the house. Unpacked. redmed returned to the apartment to pack more boxes. I attacked the ceiling fixtures in the bathroom. The goal is a functional three-way switch for both…