Archive for February, 2008

Comfortable?

February 26, 2008

Day 94: Mom’s visit

February 23, 2008

My mom has been down for the last week, helping us out on the house.  We’ve made all kinds of progress, and I’ve put up some new photos here:
Album 9 – Days 86-94
Enjoy!

Texas primaries soon

February 22, 2008

If you are voting in the Texas democratic primary,  you will also want to return to your polling place by 7:15 PM on March 4th to participate in the caucuses.  Votes will determine 75% of our delegates; caucuses will determine the remaining 25%.  You can read this explanation of how the primary/caucus hybrid works for [...]

Cygwin/X to the rescue!

February 14, 2008

I just installed Cygwin/X on my windows machine, and it actually seems to work this time — I’ve been able to ssh into my work computer and bring up emacs remotely, and it seems to have about the same performance as my Linux machines.
This is really wonderful. With the new house arrangement, my main [...]

Hooray for mechanics

February 12, 2008

The car has been slowly dripping some antifreeze for about a week, and on Sunday night it apparently started losing it faster, resulting in the puddle shown in this picture. I took Laura to work because I was planning on driving down to San Marcos, but when we left it was dark and we [...]

Day 82: life in the trenches

February 10, 2008

Well, it’s that time of the week again. I’ve put a few more pictures up on Album 8, fwiw.

Day 75: odds and ends

February 3, 2008

Some new pictures from this weekend and last are here:

Album 8 – Days 68-75