Did lots today, but the thing that drove me to drink was making a replacement screen for one of our windows.
Posted on 2015-07-23 in Happenings
Today was a hot tub refurbishment day. Had to drain out what we got and refill it with fresh waters and add the concoction explained to me by a mystic spa shop guy.
Since we had to wait for it to drain, and I had to scrub it down I figured we would let the oppressive summer sun great our water.
At the very least, it was a good excuse to empty moving bins and teach the kids about solar energy.
We got about 320 gallons cooked up to 93°F degrees and it took about 15 minutes to fill the tub once I was done cleaning it. Then it took about one hour for the electric heater to get it back up to 102°F
Most necessary after straining our backs moving. The spa was sitting in my blind spot for the whole new house thing. But it’s a pretty good perk.
Posted on 2015-07-22 in HomeMade
http://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/California_Quail/id
Saw these two little birds walking in the yard today.
Posted on 2015-07-22 in Happenings, HomeMade
Buying a home is a like a new hobby in that there is no limit to the amount of time, worry, and money you can pour into it.
I wanted to post all sorts of home stuff but watned to redesign the site a bit first, or maybe make an offshoot for storing just home related stuff.
But now I’m thinking “MOAR CONTENT BETTER” and I’ll throw more stuff at the wall and do a post process sort.
Tagged as “HomeMade”
First thing is to make a place to put the list of things to put the list of things on in order to put the list of things somewhere.
Posted on 2015-04-13 in Happenings
I’ve tried to limit my interactions on the Facebook… because even at it’s best, it encourages some of my worst character traits. Like craving constant, instant, empty feedback.
So I’m basically out; excepting that I’ve left my account alive and I confirm stuff that people tag me with. Some times old friends use only that messaging service and I can’t cut that cord yet. But Facebook is trying to make me hate it more.
I get notifications by email when stuff is going on, and it’s usually great because it means (meant) that I didn’t have to /log in/ to see comments. Mariel would tag me and I could just read the “Aw, that’s so cute” comment from someone’s aunt’s best friend’s dog account.
Lately though, when I go to view the email with the comments there’s nothing there but a big button that takes me to Facebook. I don’t want that trash. My browser, and my phone app, would show me the first few words of the comments though… so they must be in there. What’s going on?
It turns out that Facebook puts the new (and ever changing) content into the email message (most likely to make it seem less SPAM like) but it takes the extra effort to format the text that it doesn’t show up! This means I have to click and go to the website and see whatever horrible ads they have or maybe even get sad because of the content they are showing me.
Posted on 2015-04-06 in Happenings, music
“It’s the most famous holiday celebrating people coming back from the dead… so we should do a zombie song”
“Is that true dad?”
Happy Easter!
(There was video to go along with it too, but it was such crap I couldn’t even include without seriously degrading the already dodgy product)
RE: Your Brains by Jonathan Coulton
http://www.jonathancoulton.com/wiki/Re:_Your_Brains/Lyrics
Protected: Family Odyssey song update
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Posted on 2015-03-09 in music
Posted on 2015-03-05 in Happenings
Got a taste of some San Diego Snow, which is what most people just call rain, the other day.
I call it snow because the kids all freak out like it’s the greatest weather anomaly possible.
