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August 2009 01: steampunk scissors
- I fix a cheap pair of scissors with a stick welder. Also, unexpected guest-hosting aided by a frying pan of beans.
02: gin to rum
- The cheap liquor I drink.
03: hypertext stupor
- Not stepping on red efts and a Wikipedia safari from the Cambrian explosion to the Arthropod head problem.
04: army surplus greenhouse
- Painting everything olive drab.
05: gin to rum
- The cheap liquor I drink.
06: the Baby and the laboratory
- Also, more pictures of the greenhouse.
07: unnecessary drive to Bearsville
- Though I do get some salvaged lumber and a dirty look.
08: smoke test
- I build a smoke machine and then look for leaks from the foundation fill around my greenhouse.
09: thwarted by a thunderstorm
- Also, seeing Funny People with Penny and David.
10: yurting again
- We return to the Adirondack yurts
11: Falls Brook caves
- I discover a long, horizontal cave running through granite.
12: not around Lake George
- Driving home from a summer yurt-based vacation.
13: cats and hard drives
- Worried about Clarence and I install a new hard drive.
14: Snoop and the rodents
- Tech naming conventions and closing off rodent access to the house.
15: stung at the Secret Spot
- A hot summer day punctuated by a moment of acute pain.
16: stray bullets at the Secret Spot
- But mosquitoes are what drive us away. And Gretchen loses her grandmother's wedding ring.
17: actually a cistern
- I've changed my mind on what the greenhouse well will actually be.
18: problems bigger than lawns
- In the East, at least, vegetation abhors a vacuum.
19: movie malaise
- In this seasons it's easiest to just be passively entertained.
20: common sense appeal to the Dorito
- Fresh summer salad and cranky deniers of Einstein.
21: tending a record player
- It's easier to just have an iPod provide your party tunes.
22: in the car until it starts
- Sally shows confidence that eventually I'll get the Subaru revived despite its dead battery.
23: Chanterelle Valley
- Fresh summer salad and cranky deniers of Einstein.
24: mold, sun, and other catastrophes
- A laundry jihad and learning that the Earth's future is shorter than I'd thought.
25: visualized subqueries
- I add some new capabilities to my MySQL freeform query tool.
26: glowing mushroom
- I find a Jack-O-Lantern Mushroom in the ravine.
27: podcasts and weed whacking
- Watching the wolf spiders scatter.
28: non-sidewalks of Edison
- Beginning a trip to Philadelphia.
29: Queen Village
- Visiting a friend in center-city Philadelphia.
30: the Barnes
- A visit to an overwhelming display of Post-Impressionist masterpieces.
31: muffler spring hole
- I fix a muffler by welding on a large patch of Cor-Ten steel.
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