Happy Birthday to me! Cindy Fama interviewed me early this year for a newspaper article on my weather station, and it was published in the August 25th issue: Colton Corner 8/25/10: Local man keeps track of weather so you don’t have to

I discovered this in the Citizen Weather Observer Program's News page. I participate in CWOP as well as Weather ( Read more... )

Agreements around acceptable behaviors, and choices about environment are a means to an end. They can be designed to get people's needs met, or they can be suboptimal (in short, a mess ( Read more... )

My main home server (file/media server,  backup, weather station, yard webcam, packet station, power monitoring) had always been flaky due to an EHCI driver not working reliably, but the whole system started acting erratically and hanging last week. It got worse on Monday/Tuesday so the replacement hardware showed up Wednesday and I swapped the ( Read more... )

 It's been a while since my last update on how I'm doing with loss ( Read more... )

A friend on Facebook recently watched several Netflix episodes of 'Hoarders' and I commented on what I tend to do with my own stuff:

I have stuff but like to have what I'm not currently using/enjoying 'away' and out of sight, not cluttering up my mental space. I'm not super clean but like to suck up the cat hairs. Woe to the areas of the house I do ( Read more... )

So I installed a new UPS because my old one was tired out and underpowered, and because after an electrical storm/power hit my new computer's ethernet port was broken for several hours and then magically started working again... maybe a form of lockup?

In any case, the new UPS is pretty neat. It's a Cyber Power PP1100SW Pure SInewave UPS, so it ( Read more... )

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Fry's Cocoa Recipe
Brownie

Mix in bowl:

• 1+1/3 C flour
  
• 1 tsp baking powder
  
• 1/2 tsp salt

Melt in saucepan:

• 1 C butter

Remove from heat.
Stir in:

• 1 C cocoa

Yesterday was my last day of employment. I have spent two weeks seriously on the job search, and results are positive. ( Lots on my process, resume, career planning, market, gripes, and focus areas )

Recipes for two of the dishes I made, and a plug for the writers/cookbooks ( Read more... )