The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

I think there is a cat in the ceiling…

| August 28, 2011

As a result of the hurricane, at least one of the cats has decided to seek refuge in the hung ceiling of the basement. The wind is blowing, but as of right now there is nothing tremendously interesting going on – just rain and wind and we still have power. It’s flickered a bit, but [...]

Productive weekend

| March 27, 2011

Kind of a lazy about the house weekend, but with us, that doesn’t mean nonproductive: Got the oil changed on my car, the inspection sticker affixed, and some misc detail repair (the 1 to 4 power adapter is remounted, etc.). While the oil was draining, I tidied up the garage a bit. Got the seed [...]

Christmas goings-on, and a bit of catching up…

| December 28, 2010

Lizzy got me a copy of Back to the Future, of which we played a couple games this morning. It is quite a good game. It is by the same guys who did Fluxx, which I also recommend. My mother in law got me a copy of Munchkin Quest, which we played last night. Also, [...]

Blarg…

| November 8, 2010

Been busy. Got about 30lbs of potatoes this year, made a couple quarts of hot sauce, made lots of beer, visited my folks, hit my buddy Mike’s halloween party, stuff like that. We bought a stove. Gas. Current stove is electric. Now I need to run/arrange to have run LP gas lines, get a tank, [...]

Fall update

| September 21, 2010

Generator is all serviced and tested. Some pics behind the cut…

Chores

| August 19, 2010

Potatoes are now properly hilled There is now a length of wire holding the outlet hose on to my turbocharger (as opposed to it blowing halfway out every time I hit the throttle too hard)

More photos – Food

| October 9, 2009

This is a collection of food-related bits and bobs from the past couple of years – gardening things, hunting things, etc.

Goings on

| August 1, 2009

I realize entries have been sparse, but that’s because I’m trying to get a pile of things done before the oppressive summer heat settles in, which it kind of started to do last weekend, but I’ve been dealing. On thing that helps is these hydro neckbands. They seem silly, but are a definite improvement on [...]

Update

| July 6, 2009

Been busy, but still here. I’ve updated the blog to WP 3.8. I also had a bit of an overloaded meltdown a couple of weeks ago. Basically, the working theory was that we weren’t going to work on the house or do anything until after the potatoes went in (which happens about the second week [...]

Battletech, Zombies, House stuff, Time…

| April 26, 2009

Last weekend, Liz and I stopped by Zombie Planet. They have Battletech league which runs Thursdays, which I will likely start attending some time in the next month (I have meetings the next two Thursdays). Because of the above, I picked up a copy of Battletech:Total Warfare. It’s a good thing that the pages are [...]