-
Boiler offline, thank goodness for wood/coal stoves
Roughly once a winter, there will be a few days where I mutter to the people around me "remind me to check the oil level, we're probably getting low soon" and then promptly forget to actually check said oil level. Then we run out. Unfortunately after that, two days later, just after we think we're past the danger zone, the boiler cuts out. Seems ( Read more... ) -
Writer's Block: Your 15 Minutes
I usually don't do these, but there's a first time for everything.
-
Mars rovers
The Mars rover Opportunity has traveled 20 kilometers. It has now driven over 33 times its design spec of 600 meters and its lasted 24 times its design spec of 90 days.
I continue to be in awe of the machine, the research done with it, and most of all its designers.
Even Spirit, who became immobile at 7730.5 meters, almost 13 times her design ( Read more... ) -
Well Almost-fail, Layman's edition
Apparently there are those (yes, you know who you are) who found my rather long and in-depth explanation of what happened to our well to be... undecipherable? impenetrable?
So here's the short, layman's version of what happened:
Preface
Our well is in a square pit, about five feet wide in both directions and five feet deep, with masonry walls ( Read more... ) -
Happy Pi Day
I forgot to put in an advance request for tonight's dinner! -
Water Water Everywhere, somehow we still have some to drink
Every spring we have a big melt. Around here this means that about a foot of snow still left on the ground meets a two day downpour and all melts at once. Since we're on the side of a mountain with a heavy clay soil, the water table comes right up to the surface and sits there for a while.
We have a subsurface well-house. It goes about 5 feet ( Read more... ) -
No internet at home
For those who're wondering, Harmony House is currently without primary
communications, and has been so since yesterday afternoon. Hopefully Time
Warner Cable will have us back up, someday soon.
---edit---
Aaaaand, we're back. -
Snow Castle, complete with flying buttress.
I decided I wanted a break from trying to get work done at the house after the snowstorm. So I went outside with the kids and while they played, I made a ( snow castle... ) -
Snow
My snowblower's second stage impeller shredded itself this afternoon. Something apparently worked loose somewhere and it must have caught on or nicked something, and now the impeller blades are... well lets call it mangled ( Read more... ) -
Hiring
The company I work for is hiring in IT. One Perl (Object Oriented focused) programmer. One assistant to the systems person.