Category: Life

I hope they get this wildland fire under control quickly. I saw the smoke as I was driving home this afternoon.

For the second weekend in a row, we lost our connection to our wireless Internet service provider on Friday, and it didn’t come back up until late Sunday. Since we live in a rural area, our so-called high speed options are severely limited. DSL is not an option because we live too far from the central office. There is another wireless provider advertising in the area, so it seems to be time to check it out: when you are paying for seven days a week service, and only getting four days, it starts to get old.

Wikipedia has a good article on Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath.

Jack writes about Getting to St. Andrews in his weblog exempli gratia.

TripAdvisor has reviews of vacations, hotels, resorts, vacation and travel packages. Via Quilter’s Journey.

This trick to keep paint from forming a skin when resealing a can looks worth a try. From Tricks of the Trade via LifeHacker.

The valley in which we live has once interesting quirk: we are in the flyover path for Air Force Academy celebration flyovers. This morning, the familiar sound of jet engines directly overhead on a practice run had Jack and I wondering about just when the graduation ceremonies are going to take place this week. According to this KRDO News 13 story, this year’s AFA graduation is Wednesday and the Thunderbirds will be performing.

Sometimes they fly so close overhead that one expects to read the numbers on the fusilage. It happens just often enough to be exciting, and not so often that I get tired of seeing them (and being pummeled by the noise.)