Today was relaxing. Started with apple pancakes, the finally fixed a drawer in the kitchen where the support had fallen out of the middle. Installed the new attic window … learning, along the way, that windows are always a little bit smaller than the specified size…so you have to shim them. Strange. I’ve gotten to the point with this whole home repair thing that I just keep a small pile of scrap wood, since you always need to shim, adjust, replace, or otherwise fix something or other. <\/p>\n
Took some pictures of the birds loitering on my feeders. Today, I saw the usual assortment of finches, plus: A chickadee, a nuthatch, a tufted titmouse (huh huh huh…), and a downey woodpecker. I think that most of my pictures suck, but it was fun to stalk them. <\/p>\n
This evening, I’m savoring a bottle of the Dogfish Head “Liquor de Malt”, which comes in a distinctive 40oz container. It’s an all corn brew, with no discernible hop character. We watched the first disk in the “Firefly” series, and I finished the game “Time Splitters, Future Perfect.” <\/p>\n
Started reading Kurtzweil’s new book: “The Singularity is near.” It’s nice to read someone who’s futurist ranting is more hardcore than mine. He’s very optimistic about the fact that “The intelligent machine is the last invention that humanity ever needs to create.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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