June 27, 2012
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I’m alive!
Hey!
Nothing much has happened in the last 3 weeks, or else nothing that I want to write about.
June 4, 2012
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Final Fire
Bonfires in Glen Mills weren’t special occasions by design, they were mostly just times that Dad said “hey, we’ve got a lot of crap to burn” and I said “I want to burn it – don’t start the fire so early!” and he let me.
May 17, 2012
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This update is a mess
Beach day today rather than hunting down more work was probably a mistake, but since there are friends in town, it was pretty much unavoidable.
May 10, 2012
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back with a simple update
I’m doing it again – that thing where I let too much time go by and then I don’t want to post a stupid update because I feel like I owe an explanation…
April 26, 2012
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telepromptation
So I’ve been on the teleprompter beat all week and it’s been tiring.
Well, the 7am calls have been tiring because I’ve been chasing girls or staying up late inexplicably, but I blame the work.
April 18, 2012
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Breakfast Blues
I am not as good at eggs as I should be.
I cook them very rarely, and almost never over-medium, the way I like them in the diner. I think I’m using a pan that’s too small for two eggs, actually, and I think I’m impatient. If I had a bigger spatula I could probably flip both eggs at once in the small pan, but alas, I do not.
(Time to go to Spatula City!)
I make really good scrambles, of course, but that’s about the ingredients and finding tasty things that taste great together. And an omlette is just a scramble with pretentious aspirations, make no mistake.
At least I’m trying to start the day off right with tea and eggs.
April 13, 2012
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At loose ends!
Groin Vaulting in the Cloisters
Broke!
Scatterbrained!
These are the ways I’m feeling right now, and that’ just stupid.
April 10, 2012
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Wine Batch #2
I bottled my second batch of wine!
It’s another kit wine, this time from “Cru Select.” It’s a Chilean blend of Malbec, Syrah, Cabernet Sauvignon and Merlot, and I call it Chilean Mystery Blend because I don’t know the percentages of each, nor really anything about the grapes’ origins. On the provided labels, the description says this: “Opening with dark roasted notes of coffee and chocolate with a hint of blackberries, fermentation on Cabernet Merlot Genuwine Winery Dried Grape Skins and French oak completes this monumental taste experience.”
I have more pictures and notes and such after the break, but the takeaway here is that in 10 days or so, I’ll have a new wine in rotation at the Casa Fredonia.
April 3, 2012
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this old chestnut
I lack the skill as a writer and as a navigator of emotional waters to write a real postmortem on six or so years of my life, but it’d be dishonest and unfair not to mark the fact that our relationship has come to an end.
March 27, 2012
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Multi-Protocol IM Clients
They all (both) suck.
Digsby has been my client of choice for a long time.
March 26, 2012
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Okay, Spring Cleaning, v2.0
So the weekend started on Friday with a trip to Jeep Depot, a 2-acre graveyard of all things jeep.
March 20, 2012
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Vernal Equinox
The Vernal Equinox is all about change – specifically the change in seasons, this I know.
March 19, 2012
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Big Bear Survuvalism!
It snowed at least 18″ on Saturday and Sunday up in Big Bear Lake, meaning that the skiing got both better and worse.
March 15, 2012
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Insomnia, colds and ski prep
I skipped Pi Day because I had another “wake at 330am for no fucking reason” day yesterday, and was so tired all day that I couldn’t focus on anything other than the crap I had to do.
March 13, 2012
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Well, hey, 4am!
It’s nice to see you from this side!
Usually if I see 4am it’s a decadent night of drinking or whatever, but today it was because I woke up at 330 and couldn’t get back to sleep for some reason.
March 7, 2012
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I racked my wine yesterday
I don’t have any pictures yet, but I racked. In less than 2 weeks, we’ll have bottled wine, which is exciting. If I ever get paid again, I’ll be buying a new thing of juice and starting another batch. Pictures and details will eventually make their way onto the forum, of course, but I’m just excited about the fact that more wine is about to make its way into my coffers.
March 6, 2012
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This was supposed to be steak week!
Well, not really, but that was one of the plans that fell through this weekend.
BootieLA was fun, though, and although I haven’t been in months, I fell right back into the tasty routine of dancing and being generally irresponsible.
January 24, 2012
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Brownie Project 7 – The Sleeping Bag Swindle
I also learned about YouTube’s current uploading system since I haven’t uploaded anything to YouTube in a very long time. It errored out the first two times I tried uploading the video, but the third time was a charm. Easy.
January 19, 2012
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Backing Up a WHS images
With the decommissioning of my old computer, I really took notice for the first time of a strange limitation in WHS – there’s no way to export an image of one of your computer’s backups to a compressed folder.
I’m officially retiring Tombstone, as you already know, and I’ll want to remove it from the “Computers & Backup” tab in the not-too-distant future because I’m a neat freak and because I hate having yellow things in my Home Network Status screen, even if I can check “ignore this issue” to get my thing back to green.
So, with some google-fu and a lot of time, I managed to mount, export and compress Tombstone’s final backup, which now sits on my desktop as a 275GB .wim file.
