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July 2008 01: algorithm toggle
- I add a toggle switch to the front of my Arduino-based solar sufficiency controller.
02: Snowboard Snowjob
- The movie Whole New Thing. Also frisbee and basketball in the yard.
03: Jewish Christmas in July
- Gretchen and I eat Chinese food and watch Hancock in Kingston, NY.
04: hadn't brought in my head
- A client attempts to get a discount by insulting me.
05: Schnauzer kerfuffle
- At the Unseen America exhibit in Kingston, NY.
06: one man unload
- I singlehandedly unload an enormous cast iron woodstove out of the back of my Honda Civic hatchback.
07: mildly translucent gutters
- I install forty feet of vinyl gutter above the garage doors.
08: unexpected rot holes
- Water damage again hijacks my day.
09: several critical blue collar white guy stereotypes
- But I drink ice beer but never Coors.
10: gutters, wasps, and hornets
- Trying to install gutters while leaving the wasps alone.
11: restoring rotten wooden structures
- I turn my attention to fixing the rotten wood beneath the guest room's sliding glass doors.
12: Earth Battery Man
- I help some friends building a timber frame house east of the Mohonk range near Rosendale.
13: epoxytron
- Fixing household rotten wood with that stuff you have to mix.
14: not carrying things in my arms
- I use a backpack to haul bluestone out of the forest and discover that it's much easier than the brute force cave man method of gathering natural resources.
15: trolling overunity.com
- I quickly get shut down when I ask informed questions about a water combustion device.
16: bluestone backpack
- A homemade pack for carrying flagstones.
17: dissolved throw rugs
- Hot water and old Ikea rugs don't mix.
18: Grey Fox, 2008
- Gretchen and I attend the bluegrass festival at its new home.
19: Roku enabled
- After yard saling in Woodstock and bluestone hauling, I plop down in front of this $100 gizmo.
20: music in the Spiegeltent
- A trippy evening of music at Bard College.
21: plywood hauling with a four door
- Also: do Hispanics think in metric?
22: tased by a digital camera
- Also, finally putting bluestone on the woodstove pedestal.
23: accursed but streetlegal
- I finally register our replacement Honda Civic hatchback.
24: garage door physics
- An unsprung garage door is a surprisingly dangerous thing.
25: becoming Michæl Scott
- Becoming aware of the socially-inappropriate voice within. Also, working with liquid bluestone.
26: Tivoli yard sales
- A yearly village-wide yard sale extravaganza.
27: vegan fundraiser party
- Gretchen and I host a vegan barbecue. Also, I informally inspect a house in Phoenicia.
28: dish washing in the yard
- Cleaning up after a party.
29: British vs. American the Offices
- Having watched both versions on the Roku, I state some differences.
30: again to the bluestone mines
- I return looking for yet another single large piece.
31: the quarry on the Esopus
- I learn of a new swimming hole.
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