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Wednesday April 22, 2009

Bees!

Filed under: Cool Stuff,Life,Personal,Quads — don @ 3:50 pm

We had bees! We actually still have them but they should be gone later tonight.

A few weeks ago we noticed a few bees buzzing around an old wooden box we had out back. I went over and opened it to look inside and didn’t see anything. Then about a week ago Ann and Jenny saw some of them buzzing around near the same box but this time there were a lot. Now we must take an intermission.

While growing up in Tucson and going to Flowing Wells I had a friend named Roger Taylor. He was with me from Kindergarten on up and graduated with me but I hadn’t seen him since then. A few weeks ago I learned of a web site that is getting my class together for a reunion later this year. On that site was a map that shows where everyone is. Roger showed up as being in the San Fernando Valley not far from me. I happened to exchange some messages with Lynette McGee who is still in touch with Roger and Mike Keller, another school mate. They got a message to Roger to contact me so he did and we met for lunch. I found out he is also interested in riding quads so I invited him to Pismo over this last weekend. At that time I found out he was also a beekeeper. Now back to the bee story.

When we got back from Pismo we decided he should come and get the bees so today he did. I learned some interesting things and got some great pics. Here’s one and the rest are in my gallery.

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Thursday April 16, 2009

Go Ashton!

Filed under: Cool Stuff,Funny,Geek — don @ 2:34 am

It will probably be over by the time you read this but today it’s been kind of interesting. Ashton Kutcher has challenged CNN to see who gets to 1 million Twitter followers first. It’s been on Yahoo and there is even a site that is updating it live. I’m pulling for Ashton.

Saturday April 11, 2009

Obama Did Not Bow!

Filed under: Geek — don @ 4:59 pm


Yeah, I’ve also got some land I would like to sell you.

It’s Alive!!!

Filed under: Geek — don @ 9:19 am

Ok, it was alive before but now it’s running OS X 10.3.9. It took a lot of work to get it there but I won’t go into the details now. Maybe in an additional post that I will call Upgrading my iMac or maybe just another page. Here it is as it’s booting up.
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Saturday April 4, 2009

$5 Apple

Filed under: Geek — don @ 6:01 pm

I’ve wanted a Mac for a while but I couldn’t justify spending much on one. I finally looked on Ebay and found an old iMac located out in Oxnard and the bid was at $2.25. I bid $2.50 and put in a max bid of $5.00. I didn’t think there was any chance but a few days later I was told I won. The guy who had it sent me a message asking if I was going to pick it up or did I want him to ship it. I said I would drive out on Saturday and so today Betty and I did.

He said it turned on but he didn’t have a mouse or keyboard so he didn’t know if it worked. When I got it home I plugged in a mouse and turned it on. It works like a champ. I will need to get a keyboard but that should be around $5 too. Not really sure what I’ll do with it but I’ve been wanting to relearn the Mac OS so this is perfect.

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Tuesday March 31, 2009

Obama will change your oil

Filed under: Politics — don @ 7:07 pm

Does it strike anyone else as odd that for 8 years we had the left wingers screaming how Bush was stomping on the Constitution and now we’ve had a US President depose a CEO of a major corporation and none of the MSM has even clucked.

I know the government bailed out GM and that was probably a mistake but this just opens up all kinds of possibilities. Next thing you know we’ll be ordering our Happy Meals from a Sasha or Malia shaped head.

If you wanted change, you got it.

Sunday March 29, 2009

The Garden of Don & Patrick

Filed under: Life,Personal — don @ 10:23 pm

Patrick and I put in a garden today. It’s not very big and that’s the way we wanted it. I’ve had gardens off and on most of my adult life but it has been a while since my last one. I figured I have the time so I asked Patrick if he would like to help. He jumped at the chance so we did it this afternoon. It’s got tomatos, peppers, cucumber, squash, and some herbs.
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Here’s a few higher resolution photos.
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Sunday March 15, 2009

Yum

Filed under: Food — don @ 4:29 pm

I made some bread today. Easy recipe, you just use your Kitchen Aid dough hook. No kneading required.

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