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Stairs on the Way

Porch posts too… The final stage of outdoor work is about to commence. I got word yesterday that the reclaimed 6 x 6 straight-grained fir posts for our porch are due to arrive sometime within the next two or three days. (Perhaps an after-Thanksgiving project?)...

Rue the Upgrade

Ruin the database… The message from my ISP stated that there would be routine maintenance on their servers starting at 1:00 am Sunday morning and that it should be finished by 8:00 am the same morning. We had a pretty busy weekend as both my girls were involved...

Change Your Site…

As Often As You Change Your Clothes—Part#1 As I mentioned in an earlier post on my old site, I’m in the process of transferring my blogging platform from TypePad’s hosted service to a WordPress site sitting on my own servers. This will save me a...

When Morning Comes

The Scaffold Disappears… Actually, it’s more like when the moon rises the scaffold disappears. Stone guys worked until about 8:00 pm last night cleaning up the roof and stone and taking down the scaffolding. As of right now this job is officially complete....

Custom Templates in Pages

This article appears in the October print and online editions of Macworld Magazine Pages 2, the page-layout and word processing program included with Apple’s $79 iWork ‘06 suite, comes with more than 60 beautiful and versatile templates. So I was...

The End of the Stoneage

Is a sign of the times… Rain did not deter the stone guys today. Instead, in a flash of day-before brilliance, they wrapped the chimney in a tarp to keep it dry for today’s work. This, of course, also meant that we couldn’t run the heat last night....

Oliver!

Some of you may be wondering why there have been so many Oliver! references over the last week. The answer is simple… I’m Dr. Grimwig in the Canterbury Theater Ensemble’s production of Oliver! Production went up on the 9th, I was asked to play the...