Friday, April 27, 2012
Tuesday, January 31, 2012
Working at a remote office this week...
Lakeland, FL: This office is a fabrication plant that makes all kinds of cool stuff. Right now they are working on some gigantic reverse osmosis systems that can pump over a million gallons of purified water per day!
It is fun seeing the different remote offices and what they do even though the actual network migrations (the reason for my trips) can be a bit a stressful. The fact that the temperature here is 79 degrees with low humidity, sunny with a nice breeze doesn't hurt either.
Saturday, October 22, 2011
Fall gardening 2011
Well so far so good. This is my first attempt at growing cool weather crops... in cool weather. Planted everything the third weekend in August and everything seems to be coming up pretty strong. Since I had good luck over the Summer with sugar snap peas and since my family uniformly LOVES to eat them, I dedicated the two small beds entirely to peas. The larger bed I split three ways into carrots, lettuce and spinach (all considered cool weather crops).
Thank you neighbor's pine tree for the free mulch.
I used a legume innoculant on the snap peas which is supposed to produce a steady stream of nitrogen throughout the growth cycle... seems to be doing its job!
A young carrot top... before his career tanked!
A baby lettuce... the lettuce and spinach both have been somewhat frustrating in that even though I planted the seeds all at the same time, the sprouts just came up haphazardly over the course of a few weeks, so I have plants in varying stages of development.
Spinach... my favorite salad.
One of the larger lettuce plants (still only half grown)
The big uprights are from my tomatoes... just never took them down.
The sugar snap pea vines are looking very good and I hope we have a bumper crop (the peas freeze well so we'll get stocked up for the winter).
A sea of carrots! I made sure to use phosphorus this time and NO extra nitrogen... last year my carrots were giant bushes of green with pathetic little orange lumps the size of grapes under the surface.I will report again when I have something to harvest.
Tuesday, October 4, 2011
Monday, September 12, 2011
I've considered the possibility that my Ron Paul posts on facebook irritate more people than enlighten...
SO just for my own edification I shall post the new ad here in my personal space...
Friday, July 1, 2011
Some can see it coming while others, not so much....
The Dollar: I'm not feeling well... could one or both of you guys give me a break?
The Left: Hey it's the Right that is making you work your butt off with the Military Industrial Complex. They have something like 900 miltary bases in over 100 countries... we give billions to countries all over the world and we are fighting in four wars simultaneously not to mention the ones we don't know about.
The Right: Oh Bollocks! The Left is making you feed millions who can't or won't feed themselves. They are making you work overtime by funding failed programs like Medicare and and Social Security and even come up with new programs like Obamacare. The Left needs to back off and let you recover.
The Left: Shut up! Obamacare protects those who can't get healthcare!
The Right: whatever dude... even illegals can get freaking healthcare! You guys are bankrupting our country with your ludicrous spending!
The Dollar: Umm hey guys? ...
The Left: No your warmongering is bankrupting our country with your insane HAWKISHNESS!
The Right: Obama sucks!
The Left: GW sucks! No oil for blood!!!
The Dollar: ...guysss ...
The Right: George W Bush was a great president!! Hope for change, my ass!
The Left: @%^&^@$ $^(*@ (*@ $^&^&^#!)&#$~!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Right: You kiss your mother with that mouth??? Hey what do... wait... ummm Dollar?
The Left: ...Dollar?
The Dollar: .... X-(
The Left: ...
The Right: ... Oh F&%@ !
The Left: Hey it's the Right that is making you work your butt off with the Military Industrial Complex. They have something like 900 miltary bases in over 100 countries... we give billions to countries all over the world and we are fighting in four wars simultaneously not to mention the ones we don't know about.
The Right: Oh Bollocks! The Left is making you feed millions who can't or won't feed themselves. They are making you work overtime by funding failed programs like Medicare and and Social Security and even come up with new programs like Obamacare. The Left needs to back off and let you recover.
The Left: Shut up! Obamacare protects those who can't get healthcare!
The Right: whatever dude... even illegals can get freaking healthcare! You guys are bankrupting our country with your ludicrous spending!
The Dollar: Umm hey guys? ...
The Left: No your warmongering is bankrupting our country with your insane HAWKISHNESS!
The Right: Obama sucks!
The Left: GW sucks! No oil for blood!!!
The Dollar: ...guysss ...
The Right: George W Bush was a great president!! Hope for change, my ass!
The Left: @%^&^@$ $^(*@ (*@ $^&^&^#!)&#$~!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Right: You kiss your mother with that mouth??? Hey what do... wait... ummm Dollar?
The Left: ...Dollar?
The Dollar: .... X-(
The Left: ...
The Right: ... Oh F&%@ !
Thursday, May 5, 2011
How to eat steamed clams
Step 1 - Fly to Boston on business.
Step 2 - Find a good seafood restaurant
Step 3 - Order steamers with fries
Step 4 - Select a clam (if the shells are closed then the clam
was dead when steamed so DON'T eat that one!)
Step 5 - Gently remove the clam from the shell
Step 6 - Remove the skin from the clam's 'foot'
(After being steamed the skin comes right off like a sock)
Step 7 - Rinse the clam in the blue bowl of warm water
(This removes any sand... though you usually still get a little bit
of sand every few bites. Its just part of the experience.)
Step 8 - Dip the rinsed clam into the yellow bowl of warm butter.
Step 9 - ENJOY!!!
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