| French Doors | House | [26-Aug-2008]
Mom bought French doors to replace the crappy sliding glass on for my birthday. They are installed now. It took a few weeks to get the screen on the outside, these pictures are before that came.
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| TS Fay | House | [26-Aug-2008]
This was bad. The water about 3:00 pushed over the flower bed in the back and started building up against the house. This was worse than Dennis. Eventually it seeped into the library.
Roberto helped me move all the books out but im still dealing with the cleanup and rebuilding the flood control. Had someone come out and they say all i can do is a giant ditch along the back to the street. Waiting on the huge estimate.
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| Castles of Steel | Books | [05-Aug-2008]
by Robert K. Massie
History: 865 pages
A pretty complete history of the naval conflict between Britain and Germany. Flips back and forth between battles and the major players, admirals and ministers. Very good until the end where is does start to repeat passages and goes into Beattys irrelevant love life. Rating: 5 (out of 8) |
| Mythdora 5 | Web page/Computer update | | [04-Aug-2008]
Upgraded lorien to Mythdora5. Went pretty well, only the non-standard bind and lirc i had installed were a problem. Lirc was just a mattter of yum upgrading, but bind was harder since lorien is my dns server and couldnt get to the internet to get an upgraded version, which isnt on the Mythdora5 dvd. Still working on a few things, they Play dvd menu doesnt show up but im hoping that is taken care of with the mythtv updated recomended by mythdora.
The fix for the dvds is to remove the mythdora optical menu customization. And they actually let me select the second episode now on a dvd so that good. Weather works where it didnt before. It also downloads theater movie times. |
| Doc Savage | Books | | [28-Jul-2008]
Doc Savage by Kenneth Robeson.
Alternate History: 144 pages.
Volume 1 in the series Doc Savage.
2 stories The man of bronze and the land of terror. Doc Savage is a great sample hero for my scion game. Nearly superhuman but not quite. Travels to Central America and finds lost civilizations and lost worlds in Oceania while fighting evil doers. Rating: 5 (out of 8) |
| Satelite and DVR | Web page/Computer update | | [23-Jul-2008]
The IR Blaster came in and I spent most the night configuring it to work. Basically when a channel is change don the mythtv box it sends a signal out the blaster via infrared to the satellite receiver to change its channel also. Had some initial problems getting it to talk to the ir blaster. This site was very helpful. |
| The other grapes | Web page/Computer update, Plants, House | | [13-Jul-2008]
Are ripe already. Im talking about the unidentified purple ones. Since I have the day off Tuesday i may try and go to the Famu vinyards over on Mahan and see if they can identify them. Oh i have Tuesday off to put in the new French doors and replace the cable with satellite. DSL is already in place, and working. Its not the 5mb promised so i have to call about that. One problem is i will have to find some way to externally change the satellite receiver with the dvr somehow. |
| More Annotated H.P. Lovecraft | Books | | [07-Jul-2008]
More Annotated H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft.
Sci-fi: 312 pages.
Volume 2 in the series Annotated Lovecraft.
This was no where near as good as the first one. Best was The Call of Cthulhu. The rest arnt even worth mentioning. Rating: 4 (out of 8) |
| The Sharing Knife Passage | Books | | [01-Jul-2008]
The Sharing Knife Passage by Louis McMaster Bujold.
Fantasy: 437 pages.
Volume 0 in the series The Sharing Knife.
The third book but for some reason dont have the second in the database. Dag and Fawn travel down the river towards the sea encountering a rouge lakewalker. Its a bit slower than the others but not a bad book. Dag is well on his way to being an evil sorcerer. Rating: 5 (out of 8) |
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