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I set a new personal record for commute time to the airport today: 52 minutes. Of course, it was 4:20 A.M. when I left, so maybe that had something to do with it. Argh!

(Yes, I’ve been a slacker in posting to the blog. So shoot me!)

Interesting things I’ve seen while traveling these last few days:

An 18-wheeler with a giant display screen covering the entire back of it, driving down the freeway showing ads. There’s no reason they couldn’t show a movie on that thing; maybe the [...]

I’ve been sick for about three weeks now. Started out with a mere dry cough for about the first two weeks — no other symptoms, nothing really bothersome, just a cough with starts and stops throughout the day. Since then I’ve had one day a week ago with fever and now several days [...]

Yep, it snowed just like the weatherpeople projected. I think we probably got about 10 inches in total. Some places nearby probably got a lot more, and Boulder got zero, so welcome to the wonderful world of “local orographics” if you haven’t been here before.

Our friend Anna was in town visiting for the [...]

Today is Plumbing Finalization Day for the fish tank. It’s also Here Comes Winter day:

“Significant accumulation possible.” We’ll see! It still feels like summer out there right now…

(Nope, it’s not a new-found solar system or some starry super-nebula. Just a little scum on the grill out on the deck.)
Our video projector has been in the shop in California practically all summer long due to a failed DVI input. After about the hundreth time calling them, by good fortune someone else [...]