Winter Cold Moon Business meeting this am. Then more picture organizing. Out to lunch at Osaka’s for the sashimi […]
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Winter First Moon of the New Year Business meeting this morning. Some drastic pruning budget wise to squeeze our spending into line with our post-retirement income. Example: dropped cable tv. I know. It feels almost unamerican. My […]
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Samhain New (Thanksgiving) Moon To call me gadget obsessed might take reality a tad too far, but not much. I saved up some money and bought a TIVO. It took me this afternoon to get it set up and working, putting the cables in the right places, getting the codes right, creating a few channels […]
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26 80% 21% 0mph SSE bar29.64 steep fall Windchill26 Winter Waning Gibbous Winter Moon Performed the test of the sound system today with the microphone that listens to output from the speakers and adjusts them according to prestablished program. It sounds out whistles, clicks, rolling thunder, static and a loud rush of static. Then […]
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19 82% 21% omph ENE bar29.90 windchill19 Winter Waning Gibbous Winter Moon A DVR. Hadn’t planned on getting one, but the hdmi connection with the TV demanded it over the HD converter box alone. Surprise. I like it. Already I’ve taped two movies, Cronicas and Killer of Sheep. When I’m watching a movie, I […]
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-1 72% 18% 0mph W bar30.10 steady windchill-1 winter Full Winter Moon I now have sound going from the DVR/Cable box to the receiver and the 5 speakers. I also have sound going from the new Blu-Ray DVD player to the 5 speakers. This is close to total success, but I still have two […]
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22 82% 28% 2mph NNW bar30.06 wincdhill21 Winter Waxing Crescent of the Winter Moon These next three weeks are, on average, the coldest weeks of the year. I’m glad to see them come. I love the snug as a bug in a rug feeling of very cold days, work I love and a home […]
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32 72% 28% 0mph WNW bar29.83 rises windchill32 Winter New Moon Inching closer. I now have sound through the av receiver and into the surround sound speakers from the DVD player. That’s a step in the right direction. But. After I plugged in the HD box from Comcast, I noticed it has coaxial outlet–coax […]
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31 91% 29% omph WSW bar29.75 rises windchill31 Winter New Moon There is something seductive about the large screen TV experience, seductive in an Ulysses lashed to the mast sense. The visual image is close to movies in a theatre, though not the same. Hard to describe, but it makes me want to keep watching. I don’t like […]
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39 78% 29% 0mph WSW bar 29.60 steep rise windchill39 Epiphany New Moon Worked some more this morning on Faeries on the Gunflint Trail. This story has legs. After the morning writing session, I set out on a quest to finish the installation of the 50″ Panasonic which now sits astride our Stickley coffee […]
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