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Happy Birthday Roger Waters
Born George Roger Waters on September 6, 1943 in Great Bookham, Surrey, England, he is best known as a rock musician and bass player for Pink Floyd. I have been a fan of Pink Floyd since Junior High School, although at the time, much of the music w...
Road Trip, Part II; The New Tower
Off Topic warning: This has absolutely nothing to do with fixing up my house. I wrote about my road trip to Gainesville, Florida a while back. This is the follow up trip, only this time it involves flying to Gainesville instead of driving. The rep...
Bottling the bitter
Yesterday, I awoke and decided it was time to check the specific gravity of my homebrewed bitter. It was 1.011 so bottling time was at hand. Using the Alcohol by Volume formula: OG-FG/0.00738+(carbonation) 0.5 = % alcohol Where: OG-Original Grav...
Road Trip
This has nothing to do with fixing up a house or sustainability, however, I thought It would be fun to blog about. It seems my employer has seen fit to send be to Gainesville, Florida to tune up an antenna. There is no one available down there to d...
Cold War Relic: AT&T microwave relay site, Kingston, NY
Once upon a time, in the not too distant past, all long distance communication in the US was handled by one company, AT&T. There was no other company that could transmit data over medium to long distances. The breath and scope of their communica...
Autumn
I went for a drive this morning to run a few errands. I took the camera along. On my way home, I took the back way so I could look at the stream after yesterday’s rains. This is the Stony Kill (Kill means Creek in the Dutch language). Th...
A creapy thing happened last night.
It was very late, or early depending on your perspective. My wife and I had turned out the light and said good night to each other some time ago. As I lay in bed drifting between half awake and half asleep I noise entered into my train of conscious...
Sharing the road with Bicyclists
Once upon a time, I was an avid bicyclist. It pains me slightly to have to write this, but lately I have noticed that many bicyclists on the road have a bit of an attitude. Everyday I drive US route 44/55 over the Shawangunk ridge to and from wor...
Sandy Hook, New Jersey
For the last week I have been in Sandy Hook, New Jersey attending a seminar. Sandy Hook is a part of the Gateway National Park that surrounds the approaches to lower New York Harbor. Sandy Hook sticks up from the New Jersey coast towards lower Broo...
Very Cool Pearl Jam Song Video
I was looking at some old Pearl Jam videos on YouTube this evening waiting for my wife and kids to arrive back from Canada. They should be home any minute now so I have to type fast. I like Pearl Jam and have since the early 90’s. I suppose...
My Family Connections
About a month ago or so, I was over near the Town I Grew Up In, and I had a chance to visit the cemetery where my great great grand father, Silas Howard, is buried along with his brother and his mother. The cemetery itself is unrecognizable but for...
Blog Reader of the week
I decided that I should recognize my faithful readers, who, for reason only known to themselves, read my posts no matter how inane or off topic they may be. To that end, I will post once a week a little blurb about my favorite reader and why I picke...
The Police, In concert
Last night, my wife and I had the rare (ever so rare since having children) opportunity to attend a concert. As a gift for being a part of their wedding, my brother-in-law and his beautiful wife gave us two tickets to attend The Police at Giants Sta...
