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March 2006
Honda, you evil temptress....
Friday, 31 March 2006 6:45 A GMT-05
So: it's 38 degrees right now here in Washington, and the forecasted high is 65, and I've had enough of this pussy-footing around: the bike is out, the battery is in, and I'm riding into work today.
Like most first-in-the-season activities, I don't
Searching for the Meaning of Life, the Universe...Everything
Thursday, 30 March 2006 6:59 A GMT-05
It continues to amaze me who accesses this site looking for answers to things they typed up in Google. Or rather, Ask.com. Apparently Ask's algorithm is such that if you happen to search for, say for how to build a sugaring evaporator you
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Everybody out
Wednesday, 29 March 2006 8:29 A GMT-05
Everybody's testing the waters. Some motorcycles were out on the streets of Keene yesterday, tempting me sorely, and people were out of their houses doing those things they haven't done for months; go about with no coat, or no sleeves, or in one inst
I'm not weird, I'm a...potato
Tuesday, 28 March 2006 6:57 A GMT-05
I am definitely in an interesting mood this fine morning. I think it might be jewinfur's fault. She started off my day by accusing me (okay, not me, per se, but her friends in general) of being imaginary, which touched off my imagination
Our Sap Overfloweth
Monday, 27 March 2006 6:53 A GMT-05
We've been at this maple syrup thing for almost three weeks now and this is the first weekend we've actually realized the potential of all 50 taps.
The trick is to turn all that sap into syrup before the sap turns to some moldy concoction unfit for
Raring to Go
Friday, 24 March 2006 7:09 A GMT-05
Not really. I'm really waiting to see if my clock will stop before I have to get up and get dressed, and it doesn't seem to be cooperating.
Since I'm clearly not capable of imparting the quality wisdom you've gotten used to in the morni
Brand Loyalty, or, Staying Ahead of the Big Boys
Thursday, 23 March 2006 6:50 A GMT-05
We're huge Tom's of Maine junkies. It started out, innocently enough, with their toothpaste. It's not as sweet and it comes in cool flavors, like anise and cinnamon and apricot, as well as normal ones like wintergreen and spearment.
Saying What You Mean
Wednesday, 22 March 2006 7:00 A GMT-05
Bush hasn't figured out that touring around the country and speaking to people about his bad ideas doesn't seem to help his bad ideas go anywhere. If he were a persuasive speaker, this tactic might get more mileage. But so far the things
Weather Witch
Tuesday, 21 March 2006 6:52 A GMT-05
I choose to take my weather rants out on NOAA because the weather gods might get even angrier if they knew I was dissing their product. This is my rant about NOAA: can't they get the predicted temperature right 24 hours in advance?
All through
Desperation and drastic measures
Monday, 20 March 2006 12:00 A GMT-05
First, the promised freezing nights and above freezing days became one long below freezing week. At the beginning of the week the trees gave a half hearted effort; by the end of the week they'd stopped altogether, the lines freezing up and the
All or nothing
Friday, 17 March 2006 7:02 A GMT-05
I've come up blank this beautiful Friday morning, even though there's lots to talk about, such as Bush's apparent readiness to repeat all of past mistakes, or the the FBI's folly in trying to pin all their guilt on one lone crazy fanatic. I ask
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Return of the Winter
Thursday, 16 March 2006 6:46 A GMT-05
March and April are the most unpredictable times of the year, sometimes soaring high into the 60's and melting all the snow, causing you to roll down the windows of your car, turn off the defroster, and revel in the fresh air. Other times it pl
Agreeable Politics
Wednesday, 15 March 2006 6:42 A GMT-05
For the second year in a row, the Town of Washington, with a maximum voting population of 750 and a Town Meeting attendance of perhaps 100, voted in every single warrant article that was put before them with very little argument. At one p
A Plague of Home Depots
Tuesday, 14 March 2006 8:07 A GMT-05
There's a new complex of stores in Keene, newly built after feeble protests from people that Keene didn't need a Home Depot, a Price Chopper, a Target, or indeed yet another strip mall. There was also some nonsense about building on prime agric
Essential Elements
Monday, 13 March 2006 12:00 A GMT-05
Sap season takes over our brains in a major way, so much so that communication in understandable English becomes secondary to, say, the problem of how to get sap out of a 50 gallon barrel using only a wine siphon, or how to haul a ten gallon water co
Gumpus T. Frumpus
Friday, 10 March 2006 6:36 A GMT-05
A few months ago Gump let us know that he was getting old. Loudly. He was lying quite content between us on the couch, and then all of a sudden he was howling in pain. He'd get up and limp around and howl some more, until we made hi
In the Blood
Thursday, 9 March 2006 6:50 A GMT-05
Things are going good at my new job, I'm slowly gathering pieces of information from different sources and understanding how they all connect. Yesterday I spent the whole morning with the network administrator, going over the system in more det
Over the River
Wednesday, 8 March 2006 7:02 A GMT-05
I take some comfort in knowing I can always move to Vermont.
Aside from the fact that Vermont stands on its head, it's very similar to New Hampshire only, well, better; it has better soil, it has less people, it's outer edge is not surrounded by&nbs
Back to the Basics
Tuesday, 7 March 2006 6:58 A GMT-05
There's too much electricity in our lives.
Luckily for us, our ramshackle shooger howse is safely ensconced in the maple bush where electricity can't reach it, except perhaps in the way nature intended (by lightening bolt. But even that is fai
Practice makes Perfect
Monday, 6 March 2006 6:47 A GMT-05
It's sugaring season again.
Last year it was all new to us, from the evaporator pan to the gravity fed system which would get the sap to the evaporator pan. The only similiarity from the prior year was drilling holes, setting up stov
Greasing the Wheels
Friday, 3 March 2006 6:54 A GMT-05
Bush has always been a fan of nuclear energy. It doesn't fly in this country, though. People get worried about where you're going to put the stuff after you're done with it, and even though we all love to have our blazing nightlife, micro
Hanging off the walls
Thursday, 2 March 2006 6:48 A GMT-05
How many programmer\analyst types does it take to put up a cork board?
Shreds
Wednesday, 1 March 2006 6:43 A GMT-05
A co-worker mentioned the recycling policy of the company to me yesterday-- everyone has a bin outside their door which is for paper with nothing sensitive printed on it--social security numbers, policy information, that kind of thing. The sens