Busy Weekend

It’s been a busy week. Last Wednesday night, I spent an hour or more under the house, assessing the leaks in our air conditioning ducts. Thursday night I spent in the attic, putting down insulation where there was none. Friday night we hosted my parents for a fun-filled dinner.

Yesterday morning, I was back under the house, replacing a duct splice that didn’t meet code. There were other ducts that needed work: some of them sitting on the junction boxes without being taped. It was leaky as hell. But after three hours of “thinking small” while I worked in the hot dark crawlspace, the bodies were all hid. Er, I mean, the ducts were in great shape.

I also took some time to pull some CAT5 cable from my garage to the den. Now I have to finish the connectors in my den and it’ll be ready to go.

Oh, and did I mention I cut the grass in our huge yard, too? And then went to Bram’s birthday party at Tanner‘s house?

Today, we took a walk after breakfast. Then Kelly cleaned up her car while I emptied six or more boxes worth of books onto my bookshelf. The scary part of that job is that it doesn’t look like I even put a dent in the pile of boxes full of books left to be shelved.

Hallie is now snoozing and I think I’ll catch a nap, too. Even Superman takes a nap every now and then.

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Whoopsie

I was wondering why my email traffic was light this morning.I let siteseers.net expire this week and didn’t find out about it until today.

If you need to email me while siteseers.net works its way back into the Internet, you can try me at siteseers.com instead.

Passive Income Project: An Asterisk Book

A combination of financial need, business opportunity, and my dislike of going to work each day has spurred me into a book project. A few months ago, I got started on a book about the Asterisk PBX system. I put it aside, becoming busy with other things like moving. Now that the move is (mostly) done, though, it’s time to finish the book.

I’ve also had a number of inquiries regarding my Asterisk experience. My Asterisk business is attracting attention and I intend to grow it as best I can. A book would be a great way of advertising that experience as well as provide me further education on this great system.

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Parting Is Such Sorrow, Period

I drove off today with my two girls waving goodbye to me. The one I’m not married to was yelling something to me as I backed out, so I rolled down the window.

“All done. Daddy all done.” she kept saying over and over. In other words, Daddy don’t go.

It really, really, really hurts to have to drive away from that kind of love.

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Foxes!

We were sitting down to dinner last night when Kelly noticed movement along the property line. With her keener vision, she quickly ruled out the usual suspects, rabbits. Instead, there was a dog-like head sticking up over the weeds.

It was a red fox. A big one, too. As I stood up to look at it, I caught glimpse of a white tail bounding away from the fox and into the woods. Apparently, one rabbit will live to see another day.

The fox seems quite at home in our backyard. Kelly went out to the deck and tried to spook it, but the fox just nonchalantly looked over at her before resuming grooming its long bushy tail.

I’m glad the foxes are here because the rabbit population has gotten way too big around here. I told Kelly I wanted to put out some water for the fox. Anything to make it want to stay! She laughed and reminded me of the existing creek on the edge of the yard: no need for any more water.

Nice to have new friends in the area.

Meet The New Gut, Same As The Old Gut?

I went swimming for the first time this weekend since my fundoplication surgery in March. I was a bit nervous about it, actually. You see, when I’ve gone swimming in the past, whenever I get up to my waist, I could feel my stomach making a beeline for my throat.

Seriously, I used to feel my stomach flipping around when I first went swimming. It was weird. I’ve read some things about diving reflex and wonder if it might be related to that. At any rate, I’m convinced that whatever was happening there was making my reflux problem worse.

This time, swimming was totally uneventful. My stomach stayed put and I felt comfortable in the water. Part of this could be that the water was 108 degrees. Ok, I’m exaggerating, but you get the idea. A dip into cold water might be a better test.

So that’s all more than you ever wanted to know about my gut. Questions?

Rulez Is NCDMV Online

The driver license with the updated address that I ordered two days ago showed up in the mail. That was super fast.

Now, if Bellsouth could only figure out how to put a proper recording on our old phone number, I’d be all set.

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