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I've been on vacation for the last week, so I have to go to work tomorrow. There shouldn't be anything bad waiting for me, as somebody would have emailed me already if there was a major problem. I'm going to have a week's worth of packages to deliver, but that shouldn't take long (and, if it doesn't all fit on one cart, I can leave the rest for ( Read more... ) -
Updates
We did the Janesville Renaissance Faire this weekend. The weather was great, but Sunday got a bit windy (people buy less on windy days, or we'd probably have broken our sales record this year). The truck is mostly unpacked, and we haven't started on the trailer yet ( Read more... ) -
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I just got back from a trip to the hardware store for tarps and rope (for work on the show tent ( Read more... ) -
Freeware equivalents for common apps
This morning one of the mailing lists was discussing freeware equivalents for commonly used applications, and came up with this list. I thought I'd pass it along.
GIMP - the GNU Image Manipulation Program (alternative to Photoshop)
Inkscape vector graphics editor (alternative to Illustrator, CorelDraw)
PDFCreator (alternative to Acrobat Pro)
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Plumbing & Furniture
The plumber was out yesterday and fixed the drain. Accumulated debris at the tee, plus a heaping helping of stringy vegetable fiber (celery and onions from making jambalaya). I'm going to start adding buildup remover periodically to help avoid a repeat ( Read more... ) -
Plumbing
The kitchen sink plugged up today ( Read more... ) -
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Hmmm....
I noticed a typo in the entry I made on 2/7, so I went back to fix it.
Then I noticed that Firefox was telling me that craisins was a typo. Not surprising, but among the alternatives it offered was cremains. -
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This week I've finally gotten around to upgrading to Win7. The process was complicated by RAM failure, but I had the old memory from the system in a drawer, so I'm back up ( Read more... ) -
Bread!
I made Challah earlier today. I've finally figured out the rise times and the braiding so that it makes a large, fluffy loaf with good crust, but so that the braid strands don't merge back into a single blob.
Now I'm making a batch of breakfast bread. The recipe is based on the C.R.O.W.W. (Cinnamon Raisin Oatmeal Walnut Whole wheat) recipe from ( Read more... ) -
House stuff
So far, today's been an outside projects day ( Read more... )