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Flying Around in Circles 
For the past six months my airplane's #1 comm has been very weak and hardly readable. Two things had changed in that time frame: a new antenna was installed on the bottom, and the Garmins were upgrad
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Flying Around in Circles
For the past six months my airplane's #1 comm has been very weak and hardly readable. Two things had changed in that time frame: a new antenna was installed on the bottom, and the Garmins were upgrad
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Flying Around in Circles
I really think the quality of "IBM" Thinkpads has gone down since they started being officially sold by Lenovo. So far, my 14 month-old laptop has had a power supply failure and now an LCD screen pro
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Flying Around in Circles
I continue to be amazed at the rate at which storage costs go down. I just bought a 500GB external USB drive for $69, and an 8GB USB key for $29. Wow!
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Flying Around in Circles
Wednesday was the last night of woodworking class. I had to spend some time patching another knothole, so was behind everyone else for the rest of the evening. The main goals for the evening were to
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Flying Around in Circles
Yesterday I decided that my poor plane needed to fly, or it was going to rust, so I took one of my students who had never been in a high performance airplane up to Boonville for lunch. Or at l
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Flying Around in Circles
Best quote of the night:
Instructor (to another student): Did you see XXX show about woodworking on TV?
Other student: I don't have a TV.
Instructor (to me): Did you see it?
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I've been watching a Teaching Company series on Earth geology so that I can better understand geology on other planets. I'm not sure that I really needed to know that Yellowstone is 20-40,000 years l
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With our upcoming impoverishment, I've been trying to find ways to reduce cash flow. Here are a couple of small ones that people might find useful:
- If you aren't going to watch movies in
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Original storage:
- 1x 4-drawer file cabinet
- 2x 2-drawer file cabinet
- 1x desk file drawer
- ~8 portable file storage boxes
Current storage:
- 1x 2-d
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Last night was a whirlwind of doing various things to various pieces. It was complicated by the fact that a new student showed up, having missed the first four hours of work. Thus the instructor had
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Flying Around in Circles
Last night was my first (of 4) class nights at the Sawdust Shop for the class "Fundamentals of Woodworking". We are each building one of these:
The class was supposed to have 5
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This weekend
cjsmith and I called PACE NorCal for the first time in many years. The A2 on Fri
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Flying Around in Circles
Anyone who has known me for very long knows that I just don't "get" culture, especially modern culture. I had to be practically forced into buying an iPod, and then only got one when it was obviously
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Flying Around in Circles
This morning I went down to SJC to pick up my plane. During the preflight it failed its controls check. What's with this happening to me twice in the past few weeks? This time it was some ki
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Flying Around in Circles
For those reading closely, they'll remember that back in March I got a whole bunch of new ratings. When you get a new rating, you get a "temporary certificate". It's good for 120 days, and then you
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Flying Around in Circles
Surprisingly, I haven't read many people complaining about the heat. That's probably because you all get to sit in nice air conditioned offices all day. It's killing me, though. My home office (whi
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Flying Around in Circles
Surprisingly, I haven't read many people complaining about the heat. That's probably because you all get to sit in nice air conditioned offices all day. It's killing me, though. My home office (whi
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Flying Around in Circles
Just in case anyone else, like me, can buy prescription drugs more cheaply overseas with cash than having insurance pay for them in the U.S., I'd like to recommend
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I'm now an official volunteer at SETI. Of course I've been working on my project for the past week at home, and will continue to do so, but now I have an access card and time sheets (where I can log
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Let CJ take Ambien for the first time in her life, watch her go on what looks like a bad acid trip, and then lie awake in terror all night that
