Posted by The Johnson Blog 6 months ago.
This is going to be fairly heavy on the tech side, so you’ve been warned…
A couple weeks ago I converted the Chef code to Visual Studio 2008 - not a new .net version, just upgraded the solution and project files to the new format so I could st...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 6 months ago.
Here’s a quick snapshot of my already-cluttered desk.
Posted by The Johnson Blog 6 months ago.
My niece turns 2 today, happy birthday!
Posted by The Johnson Blog 6 months ago.
This is a shot of the neighborhood this morning. It has been snowing like this since yesterday afternoon.
Posted by The Johnson Blog 6 months ago.
Most of you regular readers already know this, but today was my last day working at LRS. The whole experience of ending employment vividly reminded me of handing in my last Final Exam in college, and getting ready for everything to change the following d...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 6 months ago.
It was reported in the local paper that CWLP has asked the city council to double the water rates in as short as a year and a half to pay for a new water pumping station. They say the current pump is 70 years old and in very bad shape. I’ll take t...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 6 months ago.
Sunday evening I tried redbox for the first time. For those unaware, redbox is a movie rental service centered around large red vending machine-like devices throughout the country. You simply walk up, pick your movie, swipe your debit/credit card and y...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 6 months ago.
This Thursday marks the beginning of the next season of LOST! It feels like it has been years since the last season ended, so it’ll be good to watch the summary show the night before. If you haven’t been watching the show, it isn’t too...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 6 months ago.
With just over a day to go on the Poll to the right (The TV show ER: Should it stay or should it go), it’s 8-3 in favor of getting rid of it! Too bad I don’t have any pull on the matter.
This weekend I’m hoping to get version 1.3 of Ch...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 7 months ago.
It has been a while since I last mentioned the network that Jay and I have between our houses, so I thought I’d give everyone a little update as well as a quick endorsement of a great piece of software.
First, the network has been up and running pre...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 7 months ago.
According to this article, the new movie Cloverfield is considered a low-budget film. At more than $30 Million. Wow.
Posted by The Johnson Blog 7 months ago.
Earlier this week I received a free copy of Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2008 by being an Action Pack subscriber and completing a short little web tutorial and quiz. I installed it last night and decided to get the Chef code/projects converted so I co...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 7 months ago.
Here’s this weekend’s project, the white thing above the window… more photos available.I also put Ana’s shelves up, but we decided to put them in the office to match the new window feature.
Posted by The Johnson Blog 7 months ago.
Today David is a whopping 1 Month Old!
Since we want photos of each month of the first year, I setup the “studio” in our family room and Ana got him all decked out after a bath.The rest are online, check them out.
This was the first use of my...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 7 months ago.
This weekend I used my new saw for something a bit more delicate than the workbench. Decorative shelves for Ana’s sewing room! So they wouldn’t look too crappy, I also had to buy a router this weekend (the non-electronic kind, who would have...
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