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12 hours with no power. 55F in the house so far. Next time you see me, I expect to look like Han Solo frozen in carbonite
The blossoms on our Texas Persimmon trees opened this weekend and now there are lots of happy honey bees in the neighborhood
Happy National DIY Day! I don't have any fun projects going on so Squeak and I reorganized my pile of random hardware using these new interlocking Dewalt small parts organizers
Before. Atmos replaced the ancient gas meter at our 60 year old house. Not sure how old the gas meter was but the window was so cloudy it was nearly impossible to read
Susan and I took a late night walk to explore the newly renovated and restored Williams Square. They've greatly improved the landscaping and added lots of outdoor seating for future restaurants
We recently received an unexpected collection of genealogical items including photos and documents on two branches of my family. Looking forward to exploring it.
Jolteon got its free battery upgrade this week. It went smoothly and I'm looking forward to finding out how much of a range increase it will be. New battery is 66kWh and I usually get around 4.4 miles/kWh so hoping to hit 300 miles
Susan got me these tasty chocolates for St. Skeletor's Day. I meant to post the pic a few days ago but a minor weather apocalypse distracted me. We have power and heat again, so maybe things will get back to normal now
A 60+ year old house accumulates a lot of dead wiring on the exterior - old land lines, cable TV coax, who knows what else. One of my projects for 2021 is to remove all the unused wiring
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Someone left this duck on my Rubicon. This one was missing the tag hanging from it that said; "Nice Jeep. You've been Ducked. Take a pic and upload it. #duckingjeeps #duckduckjeep " . Instead there were the hashtags written on the bottom. So, here's my entry.
Taken with a Pixel 4a. Exposure tweaked in Google Photos (that's why EXIF says "Picasa")
For most of this morning's ride I was dodging marathon runners and all the empty plastic water bottles they were throwing all over the trail. Instead of that, here's a huge armadillo from last week's ride
Susan and I went to Irving City Hall and voted this morning. If you haven't voted yet please do. Polls will be open through Nov 4 in Dallas county
usan and I dropped by Deep Ellum today to see the Skele exhibit at Kettle art.. We were hoping to have lunch at Pepe's and Mito's but it was closed, so we tried the new Hattie B's. It's a franchise chicken place. Ok, but not as good as the local restaurants.
I got a chance to play with my photography gear for the first time in while. Used a manual focus macro lens to shoot some pages from a book.
We got ourselves an early Christmas present: heterologous booster shots (Moderna boosters after Pfizer vaccination). Hopefully this will hold us until an Omicron-specific booster is available. 💉💉
I installed this tiny WiFi router in the garage this weekend to improve the connection for my solar inverters. It's a Gl.iNet GL-AR300M and comes with OpenWrt pre-installed, so it's actually secure
I went out and got a real haircut for the first time in over a year, so I no longer look like Fabio's geekier brother
Snowing today. Not as much as last year's snowpocalypse but still a lot of snow for Texas. Solar panels are covered but still producing a little power from the diffused light. I may try cleaning them off with the new snow rake this afternoon
After a few test rides on different hybrids, this is the one I decided on. My new bike, a Trek FX2 Disc in Satin Viper Red. 2x9, Shimano shifters and derailleurs, Tektro hydraulic disc brakes
We received a really cool box of William Dean chocolates. The look of each one is unique and seems to be inspired by Asian foods and designs
New art on our wall today! We very infrequently get the chance to buy a piece of art directly from an artist we love. This is a piece titled "My Back Yard" by author, mathematician, and painter, Rudy Rucker. If you're a reader of fiction, you may know him as one of the founders of Cyberpunk and author of the Ware tetralogy. If you're a software geek, you may know him from his work on CelLab and other cellular automata software. His art has gained a following too. Rather than describe this piece myself, I'll borrow Rudy's description:
My Back Yard
Acrylic, 28" x 22", November, 2021
"I’ve mentioned before that I like old paintings that illustrate proverbs that have been forgotten. Unknown parables. Bosch’s The Cure of Folly and Bruegel’s Peasant and Bird Nester, his sinister Beekeepers, and his Misanthrope have this quality. Making a new painting of an unknown parable is a type of Surrealism. In this painting I started with a scene from my backyard, and added a squirrel, two chickens, and three somehow symbolic-looking bumblebees. Plus a cool towel with a mandala design. And a woman who’s perhaps hanging the towel, or perhaps painting something on the back of it. And deliberately with no explanation. The unknown parable of the towel!"
After a year of getting groceries from Instacart and Amazon Fresh, we pushed a cart around a sparsely populated local grocery store today
New art on our wall today! We very infrequently get the chance to buy a piece of art directly from an artist we love. This is a piece titled "My Back Yard" by author, mathematician, and painter, Rudy Rucker. If you're a reader of fiction, you may know him as one of the founders of Cyberpunk and author of the Ware tetralogy. If you're a software geek, you may know him from his work on CelLab and other cellular automata software. His art has gained a following too. Rather than describe this piece myself, I'll borrow Rudy's description:
My Back Yard
Acrylic, 28" x 22", November, 2021
"I’ve mentioned before that I like old paintings that illustrate proverbs that have been forgotten. Unknown parables. Bosch’s The Cure of Folly and Bruegel’s Peasant and Bird Nester, his sinister Beekeepers, and his Misanthrope have this quality. Making a new painting of an unknown parable is a type of Surrealism. In this painting I started with a scene from my backyard, and added a squirrel, two chickens, and three somehow symbolic-looking bumblebees. Plus a cool towel with a mandala design. And a woman who’s perhaps hanging the towel, or perhaps painting something on the back of it. And deliberately with no explanation. The unknown parable of the towel!"