Yearly Archives: 2006

Lights, Camera…

December 28, 2006
Thar she blows! Well, at least, gets hot. That’s 2400 watts of light, which should come close to over-approximating the sun when used sparingly throughout the day with corals. The lights are pretty blue because these colors tend to bring out the colors in the animals better. Also, they’re reasonably close [...]
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Chillin’

December 27, 2006
Wow, I’m back! After a bunch of airplane snafus, blizzard delays, a car wreck, successful business trip, poker, Christmas presents, singing, vomiting, and who knows what else, I’ve finally found enough time to sit down and write another blog entry. This’ll likely be one of the last ones for 2006, even though I [...]
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Pack Pack Pack

December 17, 2006
Welp, I’ve been running around like a madman today trying to get stuff done. In between, I slowed down and took a break and we decorated our Christmas tree! It’s really big, and we don’t have enough ornaments for it, but the counterpoint is that the branches are really dense, so you can’t [...]
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Home Again

December 13, 2006
Hey all, We’re back from Boston after spending a “pre-Christmas” visit with Kathy’s family at home. It was quite nice, and very convenient that all the sisters were able to rendezvous for a few days so early in December. This worked out extra-nicely for me, because I had to go to work last week [...]
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Rental Cars

December 5, 2006
Rental car agencies have been making a lot of consumer-unfriendly changes recently. I’ve noticed a domino effect, much like in the airline industry, where one company instantiates a new, obnoxious (or often more expensive) policy and, within a few months, all the others have adopted it as well. Case in point is this new thing [...]
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Breathe deeply

December 4, 2006
Whoa, pant pant breathe breathe, I’m staying awful busy aren’t I? That can be the only legitimate excuse for a three week gap in blog posting. Mind you, lots of stuff’s been going on. Let’s see… we had a great Thanksgiving family get-together, replete with the requisite flight delays and challenges. [...]
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