The Caffeinated Penguin

musings of a crackpot hacker

We got bored this weekend.

| January 28, 2012

The new floor is going to be dark wood cork, heavily sealed against moisture (slobbery dogs, klutzy humans). We need to get a little bit more tile and then remove the layer of plywood with the glue on it. There’s another layer of plywood under that. Then we need to get a thinner layer of [...]

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 [...]

Snow day

| March 7, 2011

There’s half an inch of ice, topped by about four inches of snow, and coming down at a rate of an inch or two an hour. Nothing is moving, and I figured it best to stay home. Hopefully, this will be the last of it. Two days of melt and rain turn into over a [...]

Lazy weekend…

| February 20, 2011

Well, my version of lazy anyway. Slept in both days, and am fighting bad glasses. I’m waiting for the new ones to come in from the lab – according to the optometrist, aside from the LensCrafters crappy knockoff transitions coating delaminating, when I had them make me another set to replace my broken ones, it [...]

Snow day

| January 12, 2011

This morning, we had about 3 inches, everything was cancelled, it was snowing faster than the plows can plow, and we were (are) supposed to get a total of about a foot, with more to the southeast (guess which way work is….). So, I’m home, watching bad movies, painting minis, working on my reloading room, [...]

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, [...]

Benches

| May 1, 2010

So, I finally got my benches built. There’s a workbench in the garage, an a reloading bench in the reloading room.

Updated Fishies

| April 28, 2010

More pics. Woz now has live plants Heater cables are now routed so the case fits correctly.

Fishies

| April 20, 2010

So, the iMacQuarium is done, and now has an inhabitant – Woz the fish. We’ve since added a heater and a bit of terrain. I’ll take pictures once we route the wires correctly for it. However, in order to do so, we need to empty out most of the water, and we don’t want to [...]