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May 28, 2007

Memorial weekend activities

While many looked to the memorial day weekend to get away and have some R and R Kay and I decided to start a landscaping project. The front of the house has some shrubs that are pretty tall and boxed in with landscaping timbers. They are all more than 10 years old and it’s time to replace them. The landscaping timbers a somewhat rotted and the shrubs dominate the front at eye level so we decided to take them out and put in flower boxes. Originally it was just the small box next to the garage but as I was digging those out Kay started choping on the other five. Needless to say we were only able to get original three next to the garage pulled and almost finished the new flower bed box which will replace them.

You can see a few pics in this Filkr feed. Using the landscaping bricks in that small area is a real challenge. It’s been very difficult to keep them level with the driveway sloping away from the house. We still have a long way to go but with any in a luck in a few weeks it will be finished. But now that I think about it we are out of town the first two weekends in June and will have company the third weekend …. hum that throughs a wrench in things.

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May 23, 2007

The laptop lives again

Seeing as it has been a month since my last post thought I’d get off my bumb and continue the saga of the laptop. A few weeks ago it died completely so I’ve been using the old IBM i200. Since email was really the only data of any size that I used regularly I purchased a $20 USB 2.5 drive case and stuck the 60GB drive in it. The quickest way to get email back was to add a symbolic link from .mozilla-thunderbird to the appropriate local folder on the USB drive. That setup worked for a while and still works today but the battery only lasts about 20 minutes and the fan runs constantly. So last week I finally took it on the chin and ordered a new motherboard.

It arrived yesterday and in about an hour I had it installed and everything back together. It was nice to see when pressing the power button the laptop sprung to life. It booted with no problems and I was back to normal. In the end I hope the money for the board is worth it. At one third the price of a replacement machine a few more years out of it would be preferred.

As for not posting much, just haven’t been “feel’in it”… so to speak. But that’s bound to change as every day is a new one !!!!

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