Short Review: It doesn’t work and I had to go back to my hated cable company. Read on for the long review. After hearing that AT&T bribed paid Michael Cohen (Trump’s former attorney and fixer who has since been disbarred) …
Our main bathroom has been a work in progress for over a year now, as it was gutted completely including no ceiling and no floor. I’ve been spending the last couple of months doing the tile, first the walls and …
If you’re standing on a street corner, and a neon green brain, a psychedelic hippopotamus, and a fire breathing rainbow zebra striped unicorn pass by, it can only mean one thing; You’re in Arcata for the start of the 50th …
I’m mostly putting these notes here in case I need them again, but maybe they’ll help someone else out. About 8 years ago I bought an AT&T corded/cordless phone system for my home office and house. It is was a …
Lori has been decorating our Christmas Tree which we decided to have at the studio since we spend way more time there than at home. (It’s 9:50PM as I type this at work) She was very dismayed to find that …
If you’ve ever placed a call to a tech support line for computer equipment, you know that usually one of the first things they’ll instruct you to do is unplug the device, wait 15 seconds, plug it back in, and …
In Sam Harris’ book, The Moral Landscape, the author makes the point how hard it is to change someone’s belief, even when you present them with facts. To illustrate his point he provides the following example. Imagine that you are …
Today is one of those days where I’m pining for the Internet we had back in 1995. When I first found out about the World Wide Web it was a welcoming homey place. A place where you felt safe because …
After Lori’s accident with the deer I needed to replace the right headlight and turn signal. The first step was to remove the front bumper so I could fully assess what was going to be needed. Not sure how to …
When I got home from the fire department drill last night the garage door for the Del Sol was open, which I thought was kind of odd. When I got into the house, Lori told me why. She had hit …
I just received this message in my mailbox: Hello, I am Steven, a respectable business man from Canada. I am indeed interested in your horse posted for sale. I want to buy the horse as a surprise birthday gift for …
The big bargain hunters garage sale in Ferndale was held again this weekend. Since I was busy painting Lori took some stuff down to a neighbors house that’s closer to town. We found out last year the crowds just don’t …
Lori and I got up to San Francisco with just enough time to eat lunch before her appointment. We grabbed some sandwiches and then walked up to the top of Alta Park to check out the view. Down the street …
In California’s drive to have clean air they have in the last few years outlawed your basic gas can. Now it has to have some type of spill proof attachment on it, because apparently people spilling gasoline while filling their …
The North Coast has some of the highest gas prices in the country. While the average price for regular gas in the US still hasn’t cracked $4.00, we’re paying $4.46 for it in Eureka, and Ferndale is even higher than …
Blake arrived last night for our annual Memorial Day Weekend ride, but in cleaning up some stuff in the garage for his arrival I managed to screw up my back. So instead of starting our ride today, we drove up …
I recently digitized all our old albums that we hadn’t replaced with CDs and loaded them on our iPods. Lori can’t really enjoy music too much right now but she can still recognize some tunes. After listening to Fleetwood Mac’s …
I’ve often said that if you can’t find it on Ebay, it probably doesn’t exist. But this ad that I saw recently online has me a bit worried, what with all the news lately about cloning people.
While doing some Search Engine Optimization for the Aesthetic Design & Photography web site, I came across this site that copied some text from an old version of my web site. I don’t know whether I should be offended that …
As I was typing yesterday’s entry, Lori mentioned that it was snowing outside. I had seen it hailing earlier so I was figuring that was what she was seeing. However when I went to the window I could see that …
I finished recording all my albums and as I was importing them into iTunes, I was grabbing album artwork off the Internet. I noticed that the CD artwork for one album, Kraftwerk’s Autobahn, was slightly different from the album artwork. …
If you’re one of the stupid people who still willingly uses Internet Explorer, or if your boss won’t let you install a more intelligent browser, you’ve noticed a change on this site lately. I made a change to the menu …
I’m finally getting around to ripping our old LP records. Shortly after we bought our first CD player in 1985 our record player started acting up. When it would get to the end of the record the arm would lift …
For my birthday Lori got me a SPOT, which is as much for her as for me. So what is a SPOT? It stands for Satellite Personal Tracker. The device allows you to do the following, as long as you …
Now that I don’t have a retail operation anymore, I have a cash register I don’t need. It will eventually go up on Craigslist. But if you have the need for an antique cash register, it’s available for $1500.
When Lori and I got married my mom gave Lori a custom cookbook filled with recipes that I liked. Lori was planning the week’s menu so she pulled out the old recipe book and asked me if there was anything …
Lori and I went out to Sinkyone Wilderness today. To get there you go out to Shelter Cove and then take Chemise Mountain Road out along the Lost Coast. It turns into Usal Road which is the dirt road that …
Spotted another (or possibly the same) praying mantis in the yard today, and this time I had my SLR and a macro lens handy.They do like hanging upside down. I tried turning it around to get a better picture of …
It’s time once again for the spiders in our yard to start putting up the Halloween decorations. This time of year you need to have a stick handy whenever you go through an exterior door because that’s one of their …
During the garage sale we set the desk out on the driveway to catch the attention of people driving by. Unfortunately, it caught the attention of the wind as it picked up suddenly, and the tri-fold mirror came crashing down. …
While we were having our garage sale I was making use of the time cleaning up the iris bed by the driveway. A huge grasshopper caught my eye, but on closer inspection I realized it was a praying mantis. Never …
