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International Blasphemy Day
Happy International Blasphemy Day! No belief should be given protected status against criticism or even mockery. Free speech means the religious do not have the right to not be offended. For those Abrahamic-monotheist people on my flist, keep in mind, non believers only believe in one less god than you do. I do not believe in your god for the same ( Read more... ) -
work laptop
My venerable D620 has encountered a new issue. It no longer charges the battery ( Read more... ) -
Work
Work started today with a meeting I called at 7:30am. I needed to get it out of the way and there was no other time for it to happen today. By the time I got out of my meetings (about 10am), I found out that our development server had crashed. Server, up. DB, up. Connectivity between Application server and DB, up. SQL query works from ( Read more... ) -
Labor Day weekend!
Friday night. It was dark and stormy. Actually, it was a very nice night. mle292 and I had dinner out at the Teahouse. Squeaky arrived home from school for a brief weekend visit ( Read more... ) -
Bottling Grand Cru, brewing Mead
Grand Cru bottling is complete. I fell behind early trying to get the "Grolsch" style ceramic caps on the 16oz bottles, but caught up when I figured that out. All of the bottling gear is now cleaned and rinsed ( Read more... ) -
life
Sitting in Cedar Rapids, having a beer. Thought I would make a post that is not stomped by the character limit of facebook. Yes, I spend too much time there and not enough remember to write in non-professional documents ( Read more... ) -
Brewing
The Grand Cru is in the Primary fermenter. In about a week I should be able to put it in the Secondary and get the mead going. I'll need a new secondary fermenter for the mead - a slightly smaller one - the 5 gallon. I also want to get a beer thief to make it easier to get samples for hydrometer readings. Also, I want an immersion chiller - it ( Read more... ) -
First Fuel Efficiency Report
Mixed City/Freeway driving: 29.8mpg
95% Freeway: 34mpg -
The Annual Convergence Report
Thursday ( Read more... )