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By Dave, June 29, 2011 2:47 am

@ScionBoo But did you damage the sledge hammer??? Oh you said hand, not head… Nevermind… 😉

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By Dave, June 28, 2011 5:43 pm

Getting PCLinuxOS running on my machine at work. Just about got it running the way I want it, with the exception of more stuff to install.

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By Dave, June 28, 2011 5:43 pm

Getting PCLinuxOS running on my machine at work. Just about got it running the way I want it, with the exception of more stuff to install.

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By Dave, June 27, 2011 11:34 pm

Made it home with only one minor problem with the hitch. Which I found before leaving Piedmont. Wired it shut so got here fine.

Just back from buying a trailer to build a camper on/out of. Now to get it home.

Another dead day in Piedmont. Still sunburned and much tireder than before taking a couple of days off so guess it being slow today is good.

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By Dave, June 26, 2011 9:44 pm

Spoke too soon. Thunder back towards Gadsden so more heading this way in a bit.

Lightening seems to have died down. Just raining now. On laptop as it’s quicker to unplug. 🙂

Looks like the storms are about here, so guess I need to shut this machine down for the duration of the lightening part. Till later…

No idea why they removed it in the first place. Seems to have been removed sometime in version 4 and still gone in 5.

A must have Firefox add-on https://addons.mozilla.org/en-us/firefox/addon/bookmark-current-tab-set/ to bookmark the current tab set.

Whole back is nice and red from sunburn. 🙁 Twas only out a few minutes at a time but guess it was way too much.

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By Dave, June 25, 2011 7:15 pm

Still moving in spite of the heat, just having to take longer cooling off breaks. Doubt that it will get done today. Waiting is…

One handful of weeds/blackberry canes removed. One shovelful of dirt moved. One brick pulled and stacked. Bit by bit, getting it done.

Still more is done now than was when I got up this morning. Another 5 or 6 work periods and may be able to start planting the tomatoes.

About 15 minutes at a time working with a 30 minute cooling off/resting period between seem to be all I can do out there today. HOT/MUGGY!

That’ll make the one twice as deep and get the other area cleared off so I can move ahead with clearing off the area north of the trailer.

Got the rest of the bed cleared off. Decided to tear down the other bed and move the soil from it to the one just cleared.

Was hoping to get it done and them planted this morning but looks like if it gets done today, will be late afternoon/early evening.

Been outside trying to get the bed ready to put the long overdue tomatoes replanted into. Tis somewhere over sweltering out there. 🙁

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By Dave, June 24, 2011 10:04 pm

This is just SO weird!!! Cat gets caught barking by a human and resumes meowing http://t.co/bbAFa8z via @youtube

For now breakfast and then heading south. Where I AM gonna look at buying some 2″ foam sheets for building the camper… 😉

Hoping to get some done toward a work area for starting on the camper again too, but not looking good time wise, at least not this weekend.

Gonna try to get some shelving built and do stuff at Valley Antiques tomorrow. Then got a couple of clocks I gotta finish.

Yesterday wasn’t the worst we have had but is in the top 10 worst sale days ever. 🙁 Taking the next couple of days off. Calcis run today.

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By Dave, June 23, 2011 5:29 pm

Another one just after noon so won’t be a single digit day. This keyboards got to go. Space bar sticks even after taking apart and lubing.

Today may be a new low in customers. Have had one this am with 6 minutes to go. 🙁 He bought a 99 cent can of beans…

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By Dave, June 22, 2011 12:44 am

Told one of the owners about it and he said next time to send her back to him so he could be rude to her. 🙂

Guess I should have sold the soda for less than we had in it, on her say so. Or at least not been so rude as to mess up her rant.

I’m still not sure what I did wrong. I mean if the other store has better prices, then they should shop there and not with us.

They left with her hollering back in the door that my attitude was’t the way to keep customers and that they would never shop with us again.

I told her that if they were cheaper that the logical thing to do was to not shop with us. Pissed her off! Told them to have a nice day.

So I suggested that that store was where she needed to shop. At which point she accused me of being rude and stated that she wasn’t.

I replied that I didn’t think so, but she insisted, and after asking where, was told another grocery store in town.

Had a (I’ll be polite and call her a customer) (naw I won’t) arsehat tell me that she could get sodas for half the price we were charging.

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By Dave, June 18, 2011 6:33 pm

Tis a dead, DEAD day in Piedmont. Had about 3 paying customers so far. Guess I could have stayed in bed and been almost as productive.

Already trimmed the beard back to summer length. Not going for crewcut length on the hair but tis gonna be close. Just too hot.

Had to work in the warehouse some today and ended up with a headache from the heat. Gonna have to cut my hair off soon.

Am much better now that there is cool air flowing out of the vents.

Couple of hours, a few parts that were fortunately on hand, a bit of work and the AC is working again with no out of pocket expense. 🙂

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By Dave, June 17, 2011 4:05 pm

Vegas Earth-moving theme-park lets patrons operate heavy machinery – Boing Boing http://t.co/sfFE6bw

AC started acting up late last night. Cut it off and planned on working on it tonight when I got home. Now looks like the rain’s moving in.

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By Dave, June 16, 2011 2:02 am

Moved truck to the field so limbs/trees don’t impale it. Wind and lightening abound at the present. Looks to be a fun evening. 🙁

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By Dave, June 15, 2011 9:41 pm

Was wrong. Have folks in getting stuff despite the rain.

So doubt that I do much but sit in front of teh computer for the evening. After switching the AC on that is. 😉

But will wait another 30 minutes just in case we have last minute shoppers. Need to do several things when I get home but am beat.

Ready for this day to come to an end. Raining at the present so could most likely close the doors now as most of the time rain=No customers.

Dalai Lama fails to understand Dalai Lama joke, but is a good sport about it – Boing Boing http://t.co/nmpZgy2

“A Flowchart For Fixers” http://t.co/RJlbLkp via @thereifixedit

Just ordered 50 bucks worth of flake shellac and hide glue. Hoping I can make enough off of it to make it worth ordering.

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By Dave, June 13, 2011 3:46 pm

Monday in Piedmont. Nothing going on, and too hot to do anything anyway. Figure after having a fair day Saturday will be dead today.

Have spent about 5 hours getting updates and stuff installed so it will all work right. Now need to spend several days learning Sketchup.

Currently running Windblows Vista Home Premium so I can use Sketchup and a couple of other programs that don’t do Linux. And hating it.

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By Dave, June 12, 2011 5:48 pm

Correction: The frames were for 10 x 20 structures.

Now to go and price tarps to cover it with.

Will most likely have to do some other support mods but hoping this will be enough to get me a nice size area to work out of the elements.

I’m taking 2 of the 12×20 frames and shortening the side spans which adds a rafter/leg section and then lengthening each rafters a bit.

Put some of the frame(s) for the carport/shelter together in modified form and can get a 16 x 20 foot area covered without cutting/welding.

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By Dave, June 11, 2011 4:06 pm

Well started in the sense of putting up an area to work on it in out of the sun/rain.

Got the trailer/camper bug again. This time have enough materials and funds put back to build one right. Gonna try to get started tomorrow.

Another day in the big city. 3rd customer of the day in here now. May break $20 by noon but not betting on it. 🙁

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By Dave, June 10, 2011 5:07 pm

Johann Hari: It’s not just Dominique Strauss-Kahn. The IMF itself should be on trial – Johann Hari.. http://ind.pn/luTReZ

Somewhere on the other side of tired. Need a few days off to do stuff other than here at the bent and dent.

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By Dave, June 8, 2011 3:12 pm

Need to get started on putting stuff out but gonna take some Ibuprofen and let it have a chance to work first.

Nothing crunching in the toe but hurting more to walk today than it did yesterday. Much nicer shade of purple today too. 🙁

Wave at the Bus http://waveatthebus.blogspot.com/ is well worth the visit. Wonderful!

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By Dave, June 7, 2011 9:35 pm

Along with being an interesting purple color. Am ready for the day to be done…

fell into the clothes rack and almost punctured my butt with a heavy steel hanger. Been on my feet all day and toe is swelling nicely.

Then was going to the shower, tripped over a rug, broke a toe falling into a shelf, bounced off,

Been one of those days. Started the morning off by getting distracted after putting it on the stove and burning my coffee. 🙁

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By Dave, June 6, 2011 2:16 pm

Now to see what I can get done with this pile of computers that still need wiping and reinstalling. Tis a smaller pile than last week…

Made it up and to work. Quite stiff and sore with hands that don’t want to work quite right but am somewhat better than I had feared.

For now supper, a bit of browsing, and an early night.

May try to get on that next weekend. Or not. Still got a lot of clock stuff to get done too so will have to see.

Next up is to replace the universal joint on the bush-hog and cut the rest of the nonwooded areas over here.

May not be able to move them in the morning though. But a fair amount of the grass and weeds got trimmed.

Hands are just getting to where they aren’t squeeking in the joints when I move them. Quite a weird feeling when they do that.

Ran better than it has in a while. Guess it needed the cleanout more than I had thought it did. Course I overdid it a bit.

Guess the weedeater is smarter than I am. Went back out after the temp was around 90 instead of 100+ and it cranked and ran fine. 😉