I spend a good portion of the weekend working on the farmhouse plans. In addition to being the owner, general contractor, and building the kitchen, I am also the architect. Fortunately for me, the steel contractor has a very accommodating drafting staff so they took my original floor plans and matched them up to the […]

Tropical storm Hanna has just passed over head and the winds are starting to switch around as the eye moves north-northeast. Zen and I took a quick walk around the rental property to see if everything was still where it should be. Just before the storm we moved a few things included a glass top […]

If I stumbled across pictures of trees that look like the one here, on any of my usual blog surfing excursions, I would have assumed it was a really twisted Photoshop job. But, the Dark Roasted Blend website is all about “weird and wonder things” - some real some just really good. In this […]

I could kick myself if I were more limber … I spend 5 hours completely rebuilding my work machine today because I *thought* I had some security software gunking up the works. I was wrong, it was just Microsoft Windows being a PITA.
The problem: Lotus Notes “Single Login” aka “Log in to Notes […]