May The Stars Light Your Way
Because of schedule madness, the members of the supper club weren’t able to meet during July. So we decided to do the first-ever “Happy Mouth Double-Header” in August. So, in August, we met for lunch, a mid-afternoon activity, and dinner. It was a blast! Chuck…
Ya know, it’s really hard to be an animal. Especially one of ours. For, you see, every now and then Wendy & Drew get a ‘wild hair’ and decide to, for example, buy baby clothes to dress their animals in. And Wendy & Drew bring…
If you click here, a new window will open with pictures from Drew’s culinary training at CSTCC. I hope you enjoy viewing the pictures… You can even add a comment if you’d like.
My current plan is to take this term (Fall 2004) off, and then to take a class or two each subsequent term to keep my hands in it.
Thanks to the gentle (persistant!) urging from Weezul, I’ve installed a router on our internal network. This protects the webserver and other machines from various nasties. If you encounter anything unusual, please let me know. BIG thanks to my buddy Weezul for helping configure the…
This morning, as I was walking in to the office, I spotted the following vanity license plate in the parking garage: Click the picture for a larger view in a new window. I suppose the driver intends it to say, "I Love Him Too" and…
After nearly three months of downtime, two replacement motherboards, countless emails to software authors & support folks, and hours & hours of time spent working to restore the system, this site is finally back up and running on the now-restored server hardware.
Nearly everything in this server is new — power supply, memory, motherboard, hard drive, and network card — so hopefully we can run without problems for a while. Additionally, the site’s storage has been boosted from 32 gigs to 40 gigs.
The site has been updated to latest versions of any software that has been updated since the crash as needed. The performance has been ‘tweaked’. I’ve perfomed a comprehensive site backup.
Sorry for the downtime.
Julia Child, the tall, gregarious chef who redefined the American culinary landscape with her landmark books and television shows, died Friday August 13, 2004 in Montecito, CA, after bouts with kidney failure; she was 91, two days shy of her 92nd birthday. At a commanding…