No, I did not say Merry Christmas.  Even though I do recognize and celebrate the Christmas season, many of the people I interact with do not, and that's fine.  For them, enjoy the time off from work, if you get it, and stay healthy.  If you do celebrate the Christmas season, then merry Christmas to you.  Be kind to each other.

After finally getting the beast organ put together and hauled upstairs, which took longer than I expected.....years longer, I find that there is some sort of problem with the keyboards that I am getting nowhere trying to diagnose and fix.  This is REALLY frustrating and I suppose I will have to cobble something together to get something working ( Read more... )

It snowed late last night, I was hoping it would just consider it not worth the effort and pass on by. We had a light sprinkling by this morning when I got up and it started back up this afternoon. While I love and need the changing of the seasons, winter is one that I could manage just fine without. That said the snow is here so, yes, you are ( Read more... )

We took Roscoe for his second visit to the Kracken this morning. Straight away he peed in her office, but she seems to be prepared for such events and got it tidied up in a flash. The treatment totally creeps me out so I try to get out of earshot, but as I have to stay within his field of view so he doesn't freak out, I still heard it. Gawd, it ( Read more... )

I think I have an unhealthy relationship with lumber! haha When I was young, lumber was just that...wood, neither beautiful nor ugly, it just was. Once that I started working with it I began to see not only the utter beauty of appearance, but the marvel of its construction. For instance, when I visited the Palace of Arts in Budapest I was ( Read more... )

They arrived at 8:00 a.m. this morning. I had rolled over to check the status and it indicated that they were out for delivery. Since they were on the way from Kelso, which is just down the road, I hopped up, threw on my clothes and raked my hair into submission. I didn't want to look like I'd just escaped from the asylum About that moment, ( Read more... )

I received an email from Speaker Hardware this morning informing me that the custom speaker cabinets that they were building for me are done! Hooray. He said that they were a bit more complicated than he expected, which was no surprise to me. The email was followed shortly by a notice from UPS that they were in the system and would be shipped ( Read more... )

It has been over 40 years since knowledge of the human immunodeficiency virus began to creep into the human consciousness and we began to die at an alarming rate. Now, millions of us have died and tens of millions of us live with the virus lurking in our bodies. Still, there is no cure only door stop treatments that currently hold the virus at ( Read more... )

I have finally gotten IBM's OS/MVS installed and running on a Raspberry Pi 4. I've run it on 4GHz Intel CPUs, but never on a credit card sized ARM based Raspberry Pi. To make it even more remarkable, the wee beastie with 8GB of ram is probably more powerful than the original systems for which MVS was written. Now I just have to get a 3270 ( Read more... )

Well, I'm going for broke here and will try to make a Thanksgiving dinner that is low in carbohydrates, that is, diabetic friendly. Why, you say? Because both Morgan and I are diabetic and while we take Metformin for that, it is a good idea to keep our sugar intake as low as possible. To that end, this is the menu ( Read more... )