After a farily interesting day at work I let Nikki know that I was stopping off at Radio Shack.  About thirty five minutes and thirty five dollars later, I got home with a) New 15/30 watt soldering iron, b) Wire, c) Legs (for a separate project,) and d) cheap-but-servicable multimeter ( Read more... )

I finally got through phase one of my music backup process - getting all the copy-protected music that I legitimately bought, but whose only existence was on the MP3 player, off the player and into storage...  So there should have been great rejoicing ( Read more... )

Coming down to the end of getting all my DRM protected music backed up and archived (more on that in a future entry, maybe ( Read more... )

Even though it isn't my birthday yet, my wife has been giving me birthday surprises!  (No, not like that!  Well, that part's none of your business, anyway... ;O ( Read more... )

Here's the longer questions meme, one more time. ;)

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I've found out that... as I sit in my car finishing poisoning my lungs and decontaminating... that I can sit in my car in the parking lot with laptop propped up and get internet coverage from my house! :D ( Read more... )

I'd better finally put down my birthday wish list....

( Birthday Wish List )

Hmm.... thanks for all the comments on the previous entry.  I'm setting this on Times New Roman and white, then will repeat it in black.  The font issue might be related to using a Book Antiqua font, but I'm not sure.  For the rest of it, I'm using Semagic, so I'm not sure why there should be bad problems....  Just need to figure out which presets ( Read more... )

I've got to move quickly here...  I noticed when looking at my log myself, that it does start out black, then became teal when I tried to reset the font... so it does start out with an automatic font color, which is good ( Read more... )

1)  The TV in the background starts playing an extended Time-Life music collection that features such wonders as "Rhinestone Cowboy."  and "Luckenback Texas."  8 cDs for 4 easy payments of $29.99, 150 songs ( Read more... )