Stuology

I can do five out of the first six in the good list. In theory anyhow. It has been a long time since I’ve done any actuarial math. I still have my book from my grad class though. I never really thought about starting to take the tests, but I suppose it is an option.

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Mac went into KC all day, so it is just me and the kiddos. I made pancakes and bacon for us for breakfast. The kids are dressed and playing, and I just got done cleaning up dishes. The weather turned beautiful yesterday and today. The high yesterday was in the lower 80s! Fabulous! These past [...]

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The drawers and low cabinets in our kitchen are child-proofed with locks that use magnets. They were more expensive than the traditional latch you have to push inside the drawer with your finger, but waaaay worth it. You just swipe a magnet over the lock to move the latch that catches on the hook on [...]

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I’m trying to play catch-up on some of my RSS feeds. The last line of this xkcd strip makes the entire thing full of awesome.

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Ada’s new apron This is the apron I mentioned. She wore it all evening yesterday. Then she put it back on after her shower and wore it to bed–mitts included. She was still asleep when I left for Kansas City, but when I got home, she was wearing it. I ran out to pick up [...]

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The new drive is in and is currently branding my legs with its fire. Spotlight is indexing and using most of my CPU. Had I known this beforehand, I would have changed the CPU priority for Spotlight. As of now, it is 59% done, so I will let it continue. I have 370GB available. Ah, [...]

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The new hard drive for my laptop is in. I’m going from 120GB to 500GB. Yes, I have almost run out of space multiple times, but with multiple VMs, development programs, general use programs, music and video podcasts, it isn’t as surprising as you would think. I didn’t get much household work done today aside [...]

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I sliced my index finger open at the distal joint of my right hand on Friday. Besides it hurting every time I bump it on something, which I apparently do a lot, it rips back open when I bend my finger. A big band aid is keeping it mostly straight now. This does though put [...]

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.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } The New Paint Job I would never have predicted that I would want to paint anything orange, let along the entire outside of my house. This is called “Sweet Orange.” It [...]

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