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pictures

i finally got a good picture of the dsl setup and i added it to this earlier post you can see where the two new phone lines come in and where i split the lines before the phone goes into the punch block (the phones for the house) and the other line goes to the dsl […]

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full fall

this weekend is the harvest moon, it is called that because it gives off enough light to let farmers work late into the night harvesting their crop. at least, that’s what i recall. all my crops are in so i won’t have to use the extra light. i took the big kids for a walk one

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scheduling

this was the first week the boy took the bus to school so some morning scheduling adjustments had to be made. his bus is supposed to arrive a couple of houses down the street from our house at 7:37am but the kids who rode it last week informed us it was arriving early. apparently we are the

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sys admins in space

The next major crew activity ahead will be the upcoming transition of the onboard PCS (Portable Computer System) laptops to a new software version, R9, and the step-up from the IBM 760XD laptops to the faster ThinkPad A31p NGL (Next Generation Laptop) platforms. In preparation for the transition, scheduled in a couple of weeks, John

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home on the range

thing are settling down. i’ve taken the rest of the week off of work. the m-i-l will be up all next week so i’m going to be at the office. recapping the last couple of days. . . i was actually up pretty late when it was me, the boy and the girl at home.

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week. end

  yep, i’m at work again this week. we are almost at “overdue” but the baby seems to want to maintain it’s internal status. i joked several weeks ago about how the next “good numbers” day would be 8-28-05 but i never thought that would be a real possibility. i had a great weekend with the kids, playing

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