A cold nose in the lower back is much better than an alarm clock; that’s something else the dog knows too well. Before dawn, the message is clear. Outside beckons.
posted in food, technology | Comments Off on Close the pool and eat hearty | 267 words
Blame it on the bright lights (but not the late nights); today I just didn’t get started. Sore eye, mainly. Safer to put in the drops and salve and stay horizontal until late afternoon. Doesn’t happen often.
posted in health | Comments Off on Wasted days and wasted nights | 275 words
Oh, you’re busy overthinking the situation? Well, carry on, then. The story of my life; in lieu of doing the things I can, contemplate the details of other things. I’m learning about how to “size” a backup generator, when the installation involves a compressor motor. Esoteric stuff when my time studying engineering amounts to helping a residence mate find the lost beer under the elevator. Engineering students do things like that, and I was just tagging along out of curiosity.
posted in technology | Comments Off on Intelligent startup | 258 words
I’ve found myself listening to night noises this last while. A result of mild insomnia, brought on by stress, or so the online research tells me. Well, that should change.
posted in economy | Comments Off on Super-size the generator | 254 words
No secret around this house. I’m in favour of the ebook revolution; why else would I own three dedicated readers and three tablets, along with a number of laptops that can “open” content. Today, I learned that the Adobe Digital Editions 4 software has been sending back notifications to the “mother ship”.
posted in history | Comments Off on Sending home my book reports | 279 words
Note to myself: wear shoes while cleaning in the basement. I didn’t look before stepping around a box, and managed to install a volume control in/on/under my heel. A tiny, designed for the electronic hobbyist, which means really sharp little metal prongs, variable resistor. It didn’t reduce my personal volume level.
posted in media | Comments Off on Stepping on small pointy objects | 259 words
During one of flash visits from one of the kids (for a bit of fridge fodder and a chance to bring me up to date on life in the outside world), he threw out the kind of question that requires more time than most of us have available.
posted in politics | Comments Off on Getting not involved | 260 words
At some future point, the access to aerial photos will start to make sense. You’ll click on a map and drill through to what you want to visit (in a virtual sense). Yes, Google does a good job, but the coverage is spotty. I love finding other sources. Yesterday, while trying to track AIS data (think ships in the harbour), I found an app with even more choices. Neat!
posted in environment, history | Comments Off on Alternative views from there | 258 words
Had to happen eventually; the basement stores are diminishing, and (just like in any other archeological dig), we’ve entered an earlier epoch. The stuff starts to take on a whole different patina.
posted in history | Comments Off on Going back in time | 266 words
This might be the last time that I have to climb on the roof of this house. A sigh of relief; up is not better than down. In fact, the ladder will be left behind, since it requires two people to get it out of the basement. Next time around, wall hooks in the garage.
posted in environment, ham radio | Comments Off on Up on the roof | 280 words
