We had a bit of excitement around the house on Friday. It wasn’t very far away. Fortunately we were downhill and the fire wanted to go uphill.
See Otter?
And they all look the same…
Jack’s Ice Tea Recipe
By popular request:
Start by Boiling a gallon of water in a pressure cooker. (this is to help ensure that all the water molecules get heated) (takes about 20 minutes to come to a boil)
Relieve the pressure, remove the lid.
Put 3 large decaf ice tea bags in to brew for 5 minutes.
Remove tea bags.
Add 4 tablespoons of sugar
Add 1/4 cup of concentrated lemon juice (1/4 cup equals 4 tablespoons)
Stir well.
Put the tea in the refrigerator to cool down.
Decant into pouring vessel.
Serve on ice.
I haven’t cared for Murdoch for a long time
I am Published!
I am a published author! at least a writer…
The Colorado Springs Independent published my response to an earlier letter.
For some reason my WordPress isn’t letting me add the links where they should be.
http://www.csindy.com/colorado/letters/Content?oid=2334442
http://www.csindy.com/colorado/letters/Content?oid=2306503
Congressional Budget Office warns of debt explosion
Congressional Budget Office warns of debt explosion – The Washington Post.
So raise taxes. Across the board. Let everyone share the pain of keeping a military deployed on multiple fronts.
These Republicans seem to forget that when a household runs into budget problems the option of increasing income is also on the table, not just reducing expenses. Sometimes you have to do both.
Painful truth of debt crisis
Rosalyn S. Yalow, 89, Nobel Physicist – NYTimes.com
Season Scope
This looks like an interesting desktop app… If only they had it for Linux
Drifting without a landline
Well, we jumped off the deep end today and dropped our landline connection. We got the Ooma Telo a few weeks ago, tried it out and thought it worked and sounded OK. Then we requested to port our current phone number to Ooma. I figure that the Ooma will pay for itself in less than a year if we dropped Qwest. Today I went out to the box on the side of the house and disconnected from the phone network. I plugged Ooma into the house wiring and now all the phones in the house are running through Ooma.
After a lifetime wired into the network, it will be interesting to see what happens. We are on a MMDS broadband wireless connection to the internet so the only physical connection to the grid is the electricity. Ooma will redirect calls to our cell phone if the network connection is down so I am expecting a some redundant connectivity. Of course, if a power loss drops our MMDS tower, it may drop the cell phone tower as well, and then where would we be? And all the electricity in the phone lines will be laughing at us.
If you don’t hear anything more from me on this then everything is going so smoothly I have forgotten all about it.