Phil on November 25th, 2008

I am thankful for companies who send out payment envelopes with their own return address already printed on them.  That means you, Fort Collins Utilities!
I don’t know why, but I really don’t enjoy writing my return address on envelopes.  Maybe I’m afraid that my stamp will fall off and my handwriting will end up being [...]

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Phil on November 24th, 2008

After the first week in December, peace, quiet and sanity will return to my home.  
Me and two other leadery types from the church had a talk with my housemate last night.  Sparing everyone the details, the short version is that he’s out as soon as is practical.
I am really happy about this, but really [...]

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Phil on November 23rd, 2008

I spent some quality time with the motorcycle on Saturday trying to get a power socket cleanly wired in somewhere useful.
With Winter weather coming soon (I hope), the bike will have some opportunities to sit for a few weeks and do nothing.  I learned some lessons from the first Winter I owned the BMW – [...]

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Phil on November 21st, 2008

I was reading WebBikeWorld.com this morning and saw a review of an LED conspicuity vest.  ”Gee,” I thought, “that’s pretty neat, but it’d probably be neater if you could swipe the LED pipes out of it and make better stuff than that cheesey-a$$ vest…”.  Seriously, that thing doesn’t look as sturdy as the crossing guard [...]

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Phil on November 21st, 2008

There’s an incredibly interesting article in the New Yorker about Dogfish Head Brewing Company.  It’s got a great history of brewing in America, a lot of interesting details about how brewing works, and a LOT of very exciting opinions from one of the reigning champs of the “extreme beer” genre.
Darned fascinating stuff!

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Phil on November 20th, 2008

The theme from “The Simpsons” is firmly stuck in my head.  This is unhelpful.

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Phil on November 20th, 2008

Wires.  I have a lot of them.  The more of them I have, the more of them I feel compelled to bring with me when I travel.
Here’s the list of wires for my trip over Thanksgiving:
 

Camera:

Battery charger, spare battery, car charger adapter (just in case)

Laptop

A/C adapter, USB drive (just in case)

MP3 player

Charging cable, earphones (dad [...]

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Phil on November 20th, 2008

I’m working my way up to 2000 posts on this blog.  Most of those are from days where I wasn’t so interested in the more meta aspects of blogging.  Such being the case, nearly every “tag” used on my blog is from the last two months.  This is probably also because LiveJournal didn’t introduce tags [...]

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Phil on November 20th, 2008

I went to an early Thanksgiving dinner last night and brought a heaping helping of Alton Brown’s sweet cornbread pudding.  I got a really nice compliment on it.  I was told that “It tastes like Thanksgiving!”.
In other news, my cast iron skillet’s finally recovered from the sadistically thorough scrubbing it received at the hands of [...]

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Phil on November 18th, 2008

I feel sort of guilty about feeling good about the current mortgage fiasco crisis, but when the variable rate on my home equity line-of-credit drops to 4.0%…
I may consider seeing if I can lock in some of the equity I’ve got in that loan and doing some improvements on the house.

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