Megan and her boys are sick so they won’t be coming over. And the kitchen faucet decided to stop working last night, so tomorrow morning is plumber time. At least I’ll have more time to hit the hardware store for supplies and mount the first of the baby gates. (I would be mounting two of them, but the store only had one in stock) I also need to dig ( Read more... )

I’ve ranted about it before… and really, no one wants to hear it all over again. Thing is it keeps coming up. So hear I am annoyed by the same thing all over again. And thinking about it I’ve come to think that there are actually two issues. First is the ongoing ‘you kid is an out of control terror and I don’t want him in my home’ but I think it’s ( Read more... )

I SO need to spend some time transferring pictures form our cameras and uploading them to Picasa. Especially since I bought the absolutely cutest outfits for them yesterday. (and took pictures ( Read more... )

I am almost out of reading material… a sad, sad state that has snuck up on me like some kind of mad plush ninja bunny. I can only hope that I have noticed the impending catastrophe in time. A new order went to Amazon today, but I have only a singe unread physics book to stave off intellectual starvation, or at least boredom, until the new books ( Read more... )

Just a note to any ‘got to take it apart and tinker with it’ types out there. Depending on the frequency and output level of the particular unit the metal diaphragm in an ultrasonic humidifier or fogger, when turned on, can actually provide quite a painful experience… do not, I repeat NOT, get your fingers close to the diaphragm while it is ( Read more... )

I had an amusing conversation yesterday with the head of the department. It went something like this (paraphrased for brevity)

M (on finding out I’m a republican) oh… so you voted for Palin?
S: well, that explains a lot… didn’t you realize that Palin wasn’t running for president?
M: S: for the record I supported Ron Paul ( Read more... )

There’s nothing quite like taking two driving tests at the DMV first thing in the morning. On the up side, both my class C and class M are renewed, and owing to the (mostly) polite and efficient DMV staff the whole process went rather quickly. (I’m actually not being sarcastic, our DMV is supper quick… as long as you get there in the morning, and ( Read more... )

The first ¼” gooseneck is a success! It’s not perfect, but it’s close enough, and matches the aesthetic of the osc panel much better than the original ( Read more... )

Yeah for sleep! The boys have started sleeping longer at night. Since it takes a about an hour and a half to get both of the boys fed and burped (well, they can both be fed in under an hour sometimes, but then they have to sit up for thirty minutes apiece before going back down to help minimize the chances of spitting up) and since they were ( Read more... )

Aha! I’ve got it! The extra switch selects between the external LDR and an internal LDR (built into an enclosed LDR/LED module ( Read more... )