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Thursday, July 31st, 2008
Do you recall any cloud-filled vision of heaven in popular media that has contained deciduous trees? I can tell you that if heaven was wall-to-wall forest it surely wouldn’t contain this bastard of a tree. Many people have had ideas of what this tree growing through the fence in my back yard is, but sorry, you’re all wrong. It is an ailanthus altissima, more commonly referred to as a Tree of Heaven. This exotic tree likes to implant its buhjillion seeds everywhere, growing super quickly even in the most inconvenient areas. Hey, want a tree in the middle of your lawn? Here ya go. Want another one? Here ya go. I am not a fan. Heaven can have their weed back. It is getting chopped down this weekend.
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Monday, June 6th, 2005
On Friday night one of my pipes decided that the pressure was just too great and it couldn’t go on. It gave up all hope of holding water and cracked, spewing gallon upon gallon of water throughout my basement.
Fortunately we were notified somewhat quickly about the disaster. Stacey and I were on the scene quickly with wet-dry vacs, dehumidifiers, fans, and a trash can to hold all the sloppy water. This shot shows just a few of the massive “air movers” that the Service Master disaster recovery experts put in place to help dry out the basement.
The irony is that the plumber was scheduled to replace all the pipes last Sunday, but had to reschedule. Not good.
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Tuesday, March 8th, 2005
After the sheet vinyl flooring disaster in my kitchen, the subsequent commercial vinyl flooring project, and now the Pergo project at Stacey’s place, I hope to be done with flooring for a good long while.
I’ll state the obvious: I get obsessed with dorky things for rather limited amounts of time, then move on to newer, more interesting projects. I have been playing around with Ubuntu Linux lately. Although I’ve always been a Red Hat guy, the Debian side of the fence is not without its charm. I’m still ramping up, but I’m quite pleased with Ubuntu’s performance on the craptop work gave me, as well as on my work PC. Also, I’ve migrated my home network off of the Xincom dual-wan router I had and over to the Soekris Net4501. M0n0wall has been running on that thing for quite a while acting as my wireless access point, but now that I’m reducing devices I am beginning to see how powerful m0n0wall is. I’m trying to figure out the PPTP server that is built in, but have had only limited success so far. Anyone else out there have a fun technology to share?
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