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September 28, 2006 -
Last
night I potted the brugmansia (tropical tree), and
tonight when I got home it was completely wilted and
dead-looking... Mayhaps it didn't like being transplanted
so much. Maybe it will come back to live.
China
now has a nifty super laser it has been using to shoot
at the three US Keyhole satellites we use for surveying
any spying on the world. The laser doesn't hurt the
satellites, but it does blind them as they pass overhead.
I wonder when we'll have stealth satellites to put
up there (if we don't have them already)- it's more
likely we'll just put hundreds of very small hard
to target ones up next.
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September 25, 2006 -
Monday
back to work and all was chaos- one of the servers
was under a DNS attack and that was causing all sorts
of network havoc.
Last
night I went to a tech people get together at Jesse's
house. Jesse's wife Reggie gave everyone tours of
the house and yard which they've been landscaping-
everything was just awesome, and Reggie was just the
coolest person ever.
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September 20, 2006 -
BAH!
I got a shipment from TigerDirect today;
a thumb drive, 22 in 1 flash card reader, gig of ram,
and a new scanner.... the Bah exclamation is because
the scanner was shipped separately, and just in the
factory box which was not reinforced well... and it
was TOTALLY SMASHED up inside. All busted up... busted
all to heck! I already called and got my return code,
and UPS will pick it back up tomorrow... meh.
Egads...
the Brugmansia Arborea I got Mom for Mother's day
tripled in size over the summer. It's a tropical treed
that has huge flowers- and I pondered I'd dig it up
and pot it... I've had a potted Biwa tree for almost
a decade now and it's happy... but now the new tree
is just huge so it's going to be a major pain to haul
in. There was also a dead bird in the pond today...
Ick. It was such a good day before I came home too...
I guess it wasn't above nominal... but a normal day
is pretty good.
Work
goes well, tomorrow we're off to Mine Creek to take
them a new system.
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September 11, 2006 -
Sanka
is one destructive pup, tonight she shredded my box
of tissues, and in the bathroom she found one of those
plastic netting sort of scrubby things you get for
liquid bath soap.... She completely obliterated it...
it was all one piece mostly... but it was stretched
all the way across the bedroom.
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September 10, 2006 -
I'm
still kinda under the weather, but as long as the
tissue box holds out I'll be ok. It's been a quiet
day- I slept in, did the dishes, meandered about the
house and cleaned some, and watched a lot of TV while
I played on the internet.
Yesterday
Teresa came over and we went shopping... I got some
nifty new clothes. I had just gotten back to Brent's
before she came over. Sanka and I went home, mostly
because I had a video project to work on. Sanka is
use to being an only child, so she didn't get along
very well with the other animals... she'd go after
their food and was just very aggressive towards them.
I took her to bed with me, and I didn't hardly sleep
at all.
Today
I worked more on the video project having downloaded
some free software with my laptop- I think I'm done
with the project now... I hope. Video formats can
be such a pain to work with.
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September 7, 2006 -
Full
Moon tonight, the "corn moon", which is
traditionally the best day/night for harvesting corn
I guess- none of that for me though, I instead went
over to Mickey's to look at his laptop, and to go
out to eat. He showed me some of his Flash work which
I found very impressive.
I'm
kind sick- I had a slight sore throat yesterday, a
tinge of a headache, but that went away very quick.
My runny nose and sneezing will not stop though.
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September 6, 2006 -
It
was a good night in tonight. Dennis came down to get
help with his computer, I ate Thai leftovers, and
did some good house chores.
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September 5, 2006 -
After
work Bob, Teresa, Laura & I went out for Thai-
I just love the yellow curry bowl, it's the super-best!
Sanka
(Brent's dog) is bad- tonight she found something
in the yard and rolled in it. She smelled so bad I
couldn't stand to be in the same room with her, so
I gave her a bath.
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September 4, 2006 -
Labor
Day, my first paid day for not working and Bob, Teresa
& I went to the Omaha Zoo. The weather was super
good, quite perfect for zoo meandering. Omaha has
a great zoo, and I would have to say the polar bears
were my favorite. They seemed the most personable
and playful- like they wanted to show off and get
attention. There were two of them, and one had a giant
hard plastic ball that it would swim with, push about,
& stand up and throw into the water and then dive
after.
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September 3, 2006 -
Had
some trouble sleeping... It's the Trains! Why must
they blow their horns as they go by Topeka??? I mean...
I can hear the train well enough and I'm blocks away,
but they blow their horns so you can really hear them.
Teresa came over around one and we went over to Lin's
to help her with some yard work... but Lin and Brian
were gone... so instead we roamed about. We took Sanka
for a walk at Ceadercrest and then got a pizza and
watched Aeon Flux- it was kinda a junky movie.
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September 2, 2006 -
I
worked in the library today but it was completely
dead- totally dead. Bob brought in some of the super
yummy Italian cheesy bread that the Mormon ladies
make at the farmers' market- it's the greatest stuff.
After work Bob and I went out to eat at Sun's and
we meandered about some. Tonight was my first night
of house sitting for Brent- I really like his Wi-Fi
goodness.