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For all those who read the articles, and who want to hire Dan Pennell, owner of Toro Construction to do their fencing work, he has a new website:

Toro Construction

The past 15 hours or so have felt like a loose bicycle chain. This morning, that chain fell off.

I was doing my usual thing and clearing out the buffer of my ZoneMinder system, when I noticed a few of clips of the storm we had last night.

Ok - so we got our tree trimmed today; my wife wanted some mulch, and we got a little more than we bargained for...

UPDATE! We cut them open! Click here to see...

My wife and I have always had mutant lemons from our lemon trees (now bushes) out in our front yard - check out these new ones, the first new ones in a long time...

I'm not sure, but I think this is an old Cox 049 control-line model airplane engine...

Rest in Peace, Mom...

Thank $DEITY, not our house; unfortunately, it was our neighbor's house. Nobody was living there, fortunately...

Laziness got the better of me, which is why I probably shouldn't tackle a project as large as building a fence, because it would never get done! Anyhow, I took all of these pictures on Saturday, April 4th, showing what the new fence with the gates and view panels installed looks like...

Interesting Frappr Map of TRS-80 Color Computer owners worldwide...

The block arrived early this morning...by the end of the day, our fence was complete; all that is left is the "ironwork"...

Well, with several phone calls, a few estimates, one insurance adjuster, and a pittance insurance check later, we are now well on our way to a new fence...

Yesterday I came home from work thinking "Ah, a relaxing evening", never imagining anything outside of what my wife and I now define as "ordinary" (things get weird when you have your mother, who has dementia, living with you). Never did I think this would be here to greet me when I got home...

It's been a while since I last updated this site, so I thought I would post something to let everyone know what is going on, where I am at with things, and how I am doing...

I originally released this guide back in October of 2003, and several people enjoyed it. All of them said it was helpful and interesting. When I updated my site, the welding guide went away. After looking at my site statistics, though, and noticing people trying to find it, I thought I would dust it off and bring it back.

I found this recipe today on Fark (new window) - I haven't made it yet, but I thought it sounded tasty:

Morton_toes' BBQ Bacon Breasts (new window)

Read on for locally-hosted version of the comments and recipe...

First off: I apologize, for both my attitude and demeanor during our email conversations. Yes, the issue was at my end, but one can easily see how I was mistaken - it wasn't so much that I was wrong (which I was), but that I didn't have all of the information, either. Read on...

Very strong words, and I wouldn't post them here had it not been for a dream I had this morning, one that woke me up and made me think a bit more than I am usually wanting to do at that hour...

Tonight, my wife and I prepared a cheap meal, part of which was a simple box of mac-n-cheese. But a little improvisation went a long way...