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Author: aron

  • Lazy Sunday

    I think every Sunday is a lazy Sunday as I rarely to never get anything done even though there’s stuff to do. I got the kitchen cleaned and I’m about to attack laundry. I need to clean so that I can work on computer geek things during the week. I still need to finish the floor but it may bleed into next weekend.

    I did have some rum last night and it just served to remind me that I’m just not a drinker any more. My body just doesn’t metabolize it the way it used to. It’s for the best of course, it’s just plain unhealthy to drink on the level that I used to. Once every couple of months is enough for me I guess.

    Off to get more done, make it a great one everybody!!!

  • Art Goggle & Dead Zone

    It was a busy 15k step day today. We went to the Magnolia art festival. We drove to moms and then biked down to the festival, actually locked the bikes up by the Chat Room which I haven’t been to in years, I think John may have been in the band playing bass which sounds right, I looked around for Meg but didn’t rightly see her. I should have asked because I may be making up the fact that they are even involved in the place since the last time I saw them in 13/14, hope they are well.

    Talked to my old friend Doug today, good to catch up. Then Sandy and I watched the Dead Zone. The old 1983 version. It was good and about how I remembered it. Another good day and life is still good.

  • TGIF

    While I’ve always liked Friday’s, it’s nice to actually have a part time job to take a break from. Both hours of the week were tiring LOL. We’re going to go to art goggle tomorrow and there’s also a music festival going on. We’re planning on taking the bikes and going over to my sisters and then bike down to the festivities. We’ll see how that works out, it’ll be beyond packed I’m sure.

  • Changing Ideas

    I remember when I bought my first house here in Texas. When doing lawn maintenance I always tried to use the mulching feature to recycle the nutrients back into the soil. That got me a thatched lawn. While mulching may be a thing in some places, you need rain to break down the clippings and we don’t have that down here. So now I bag clippings and leaves and such and off it goes to the landfill. While I’m not happy I’m not recycling it, at least it may be assisting the landfill in composting garbage.

  • Visit to the Dentist

    I had a visit at 8am this morning, not a great way to start the day, I need crown/caps on two molars way in the back so they basically have to invert you and drill while spraying water down your throat. I think that’s as close to water boarding that I care to get.

    I have temporary caps on and it should be two weeks to get the permanent ones. I’ll be happy when they are on and this is behind me. I really need to get that one missing tooth replaced but that will come in time.

  • Break From the Heat

    It’s half way through October and we’re finally going to get a break from the heat. The high tomorrow is supposed to be 70 which is 25 or so degrees lower than it was today. It’s always so hot down here that the standard dress is shorts and a t-shirt. I’m not even sure that I have a pair of pants that fit and when I do wear jeans I’m always pissed because there aren’t enough pockets.

  • Main Floor Laid

    So the floor is laid except for the last row and closet. I’ve been thinking about it and I’m having to remove the frame around the doors and closet but it doesn’t seem to be that hard. I also need to get the table saw out of the shed. And out of the box now that I think of it. I bought the table saw when it was $100 off and knew I’d need one so I got it, it’s still in the box.

    But the weather is changing this evening and it will be nice to work out in the shed tomorrow retrieving the saw and learning to use it.

  • Loserboys in Loserville

    It’s hard being a Cowboy’s fan. As fan would be short for fanatic, I’m not one. But I do like them better than any other football team so even though I’m not a Cowboy fanatic, I don’t like to see them lose, and it’s even less fun to watch them get slaughtered like they did in spectacular fashion today. If you’ve ever watched the Harlem Globetrotters play some no name team, that would have been the Cowboy’s today. Detroit just spanked them at every turn. I do think it’s funny that the football gods would do this on Jerry’s birthday, he’s still paying for pulling the trophy out of Jimmy’s hands. Still hard to watch though…

  • Recovery Day

    Evidently, crawling around on the floor pounding planks together is a young mans game. I’m a bit sore so I told the home owner that the project would be delayed until I felt like getting back to the job. He didn’t seem to mind at all.

    I got back to studying the docker class and am making progress although I’ve got a concentration problem that I need to fix, I mean the subject isn’t super exciting but it’s not bad, I just wonder to other things even though I need to study. It’s just getting back into the groove.

    Also got the new hire paperwork knocked out for the seasonal position I’m taking. It wasn’t too bad and I’ve filed the information for reference should it ever come up but I’ll probably just write exports like I’ve been doing for the last 4 or so years.

    Sandy’s job is going phenomenal, she’s just doing training but this job is perfect for her. It’s better than I thought that it would be and that’s saying something.

    TGIF

  • RAM Acquired

    I generally have maxed out the random access memory to all my computers since it’s about the easiest way to increase performance. But I realized that my main Linux box had 24 Gb of RAM. 2 x 8 and 2 x 4, so mismatched and missized memory and I was wondering why I was having some issues. But Amazon had 32 Gb of RAM for $32 and so I upgraded it to all the same RAM and the box is running much better than it was so I’m pretty happy about that. Also it’s the box I’m doing my docker training on so it helps that it can handle a bit more now.