The Time Sink

Let's see... A longish day at work, followed by a small group thing at church, dinner after the Algebra homework and hearing Daniel is doing well in Chemistry and that Shelley is teaching tomorrow and suddenly it's 2300.

Well, it was another one of those busy, late running days, but I took some time this evening and just had a geekfest at the computers. Not much direct progress, but lots of notes. ...and one distro downloading to play with mañana.

The weather? We'll be cooling down to 71F for a few days after spending the last two at 77. Yeah, wasn't it just a week back I'd come out to frost on the car in the morning?

We'll see if this holds though: last year this same pattern occurred and by the end of March we were in a three week rain fest. No, matter, I need to go about replacing the pool filter this weekend since it decided to go locked-rotor on me the other day.

Nibbled to death by ducks...

...and we made it to the weekend!

Today was a day of cleaning and lawn and catching up, enough so that we were basically done in physically, and way before the time change thing hits. ...but the tax prep is well along, more Spring-work in the outside has been completed (no need for a fire pit much longer this year the way it's going (76F again today), and Shelley did some baking with the windows open to keep the kitchen cooled off (while she still can).

More busy: the pool filter is clean and the solar is ready to go; if it's going to be in the 80's this week we may as well transfer some of that energy to the water. Then again, this is analogous to washing your car: rain and cooler temps could be triggered if enough people did the same thing.

...and a couple of vines from last year do not appeared to have weathered the frosts; new inhabitants of those containers are stretching their roots before sending trailers up the gazebo to cover the roof area.

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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is
indistinguishable from magic."
Arthur C. Clarke, "Technology and the Future"

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