Archive for August, 2008



Published on August 27, 2008

Blogs work a lot better if you don’t forget to pay to re-register the name.
Sorry for the black-out! Or maybe sorry for coming back.
Depends on your perspective I suppose…


Published on August 25, 2008

Back down in Modesto this morning.   Strange to be back after almost 2 months away.   Trying to get back in the “engineer during daylight hours” frame of mind after a couple of months of being a vampire engineer.
We had a fun weekend.  I took Cowboy and Maesie up to a “Father/Child” campout put on by [...]


Published on August 20, 2008

Well hmm. What an odd day yesterday was at work.
It started normal – plugging away at various things. Then we sat down for our 11:30 daily meeting, and Damon – our CEO – started. He told us that the company had run out of money, and that because of an accounting slip [...]


Published on August 16, 2008

As promised…


Published on August 15, 2008

Good grief.  Where to even start?
Went camping last weekend up in Tahoe along with a bunch of folks from our church.  The whole family and Zeus.  Had a good time, though the kids were disappointed that we didn’t catch any Snipes when we went hunting for them Friday night.
Came home Sunday afternoon about 1/2 hour [...]


Published on August 3, 2008

Saw this sitting on a rock about 30′ off our back deck this evening. This was the best of about 20 pictures – it was too dark and I couldn’t stand still enough to get a good shot.
Now that’s a big bird!


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Am I the only one who didn’t realize just how good Little House on the Prarie is?
A few months ago, our basic Dish package got the Hallmark Channel added to it for a couple of weeks. During that time, we recorded a bunch of Little House episodes, and we’ve been watching them during our [...]