The song begins “It’s beginning to look a lot like” and before I can finish the phrase, the response was heard. “Time to take a family photo”. So many people that haven’t seen (or heard from) us in months, now that we’re metamorphosing into country folk.
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Finally! An opportunity to get some exercise while wielding a large shovel! That wasn’t exactly the first thought that came up, but when the new snow level is over the ankles, a modest effort is required.
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posted in environment | Comments Off on In the early morning sun and snow | 253 words
My bad, for ignoring the recent drop in temperature. The hose stow, which should have taken mere minutes has turned into a multi-part job, due to the ice which has formed IN the hose. Nothing serious; no pressure, but I’ll be letting the whole thing thaw overnight in order to dump the water. Next year, I’ll remember. In past, I didn’t keep the hose on a spool, so the putaway came with a simple blow-it-clear.
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Had my first cupful from the new machine, and it was good. Calm has been restored at our house. It helped that, while looking for something unrelated, I noticed that our machine had gone on sale overnight, with a reduction in price of about 25%. We called their hotline; an instant rebate was ours for simply showing up at the store, today, and presenting the original sales slip. Even the dog loves that kind of rationale for a road trip, and within a couple of hours our machine became an even better value.
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At a risk of paraphrasing someone famous, today is a day that will live on in infamy. This morning, for no good reason, our treasured coffee machine stopped. Completely. Oh, sure, I can get bursts of steam, but the necessary feature, which pours heated water over ground beans… done.
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Now that the essentials of the gear required to make my work area have been unboxed, it’s time to improve things. In keeping with the “no need to put out the best china plates” model, I’ve swapped the UR22 against the UR44 as my sound interface for day-to-day. Had to download some drivers (it’s a Mac, after all), but the first impressions are satisfactory. I’m watching back episodes of Black Mirror. For someone who has had years of US sitcoms to entertain, this counts as really strange content. I’ll keep watching.
posted in technology | Comments Off on Behind the Black Mirror | 257 words
Turns out, I don’t need an app to tell me when things get loud. This afternoon, I decided to see if the new monitor speakers and subwoofer would play nicely together. Spent far too long trying to get my connectors “right”, before deciding to plunge in and turn up the sound. Took only seconds to get feedback. No, not the sine wave variety caused by A-B-A.
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It’s a life skill: roll out of bed on a Saturday just in time to catch a ride to breakfast in town. After all, there’s bacon in play. We learned to max out coffee consumption as well.
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My replacement MIDI cables arrived this afternoon, via the dog’s preferred courier service. When I mentioned to the driver that this was a second effort by Amazon, he pointed out that delivery is far from infallible. Hence the corporate logo: “oops!”
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