Archive for November, 2007

Things I used to enjoy and no longer do.

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

* Ride my bicycle nightly. I haven’t done this since I moved out of MS. I even got a new bike this year. My waistline is expanding again due to the lack of exercise. * Haiku. I had a lot more time for Haiku before I bought the house and started working on that. * [...]

One door ready to polyurethane!

Monday, November 5th, 2007

I got the kitchen pantry door and it’s jamb ready to polyurethane yesterday. It’s sanded, stained, ready to be sprayed. I’ll vacuum the shop tonight when I get home, build the rack for spraying doors that I have in mind (I’ll re-purpose the 2×4′s I used for the baseboard rack) and hopefully get the first [...]

I hate maven.

Monday, November 5th, 2007

Maven Sucks. I can’t use the tool from work, because our current client has such paranoia under the name of ‘security’ that we can’t do jack unless it’s https. HTTP traffic is filtered. HTTPS is not. Sockets? Forget it. We can’t connect to -anything- but HTTP. What a pain. So Maven thinks it’s a good [...]

Old Technology: Great Results!

Thursday, November 1st, 2007

Our seven month old microwave is dead. It’s under warranty, but we’re waiting for the repair firm that Best Buy uses to get their schedules ready for us. So we’ve been using the range a lot. Tonight, I was sitting here, by myself, playing Civilization, and I got the urge for popcorn. Well, how do [...]