Ah, the porch. The most fantastic, wonderful place in the world to relax and drink coffee when the weather is good.
We had the house assessed a while back and the assessor said that the porch would sell the house, but sadly he hardly ever sees anybody using their outdoor spaces. Not so for our family.
Technically [...]
3
2010
Front Porch
23
2010
Library Wifi Success
Hooray, I’ve got a reasonably useful connection in the library. That only took an hour. Bah.
For anybody who needs to know, the secure connection at the Forsyth County Public Library requires WPA2/TKIP. Not AES. And Service Pack 2 for XP.
Yes, I’m sure you wanted to know that. However, that has been my morning, the upside [...]
21
2010
Hampton Park Library
Our new county library opened. It’s a miracle. It was scheduled to open this past Fall, then delayed. And since something seems to always go wrong with a new municipal service, I had expected it to be delayed again and open eventually. Not so. I am happy that my pessimism was unwarranted.
DOWNSTAIRES LIBRARY EMPTY SHELVES [...]
18
2010
The Pacific
We watched the first episode of The Pacific on HBO. It was great, as I expected. Except that I am familiar with the history, which makes the story somewhat less mysterious since I already know from the first episode who is going to die.
This doesn’t make the series any less interesting to me. But the [...]
16
2010
Bright Red
The color red must need a lot of chemicals to be created. Because I am having as much luck finding a bright red handbag as I did trying to find a bright red lipstick without a lot of chemicals in it.
And I’m not looking at an ingredient list for a bag. I’d just [...]
