January 01, 2007 – Click on image for higher resolution version.
Wishing everyone who reads this a happy, healthy and prosperous 2007.
Author: Elaine
Open-Source software for Windows
Open Source Windows has what looks like a good list of Free, Open-Source software for Windows.
Random Act of Kindness
December 31, 2006 – Click on image for higher resolution version.
Although I parked the Subaru at the end of the driveway near the road, I expected I would need to spend some time digging out to the road through the ridge of snow the plow leaves. Instead, when I got to the end of the driveway, I found the snow plow driver or a neighbor had already plowed clear the end of the drive, so it didn’t take me more than two minutes of digging to get the car free. Behind the cut, there is photo of what I would have been digging through.
sugarfused.net
sugarfused.net has a new look for the New Year. Fortunately, she announced her redesign in a web log post, since I normally read her web log using a feed reader.
Enough with the Winter Wonderland Already
December 30, 2006 – Click on image for higher resolution version.
The good news is we have blue skies and a plowed road. The bad news is that the wind seems to be picking up, as forecast.
Still Snowing
December 29, 2006 – Click on image for higher resolution version.
Isn’t this a beautiful snow plow?
December 29, 2006 – Click on image for higher resolution version.
This isn’t nearly as bad as last week, when I was afraid to open the garage door while it was still snowing.
100 Things We Didn’t Know Last Year
BBC News has a list of 100 Things We Didn’t Know Last Year.
Google Labs – Notebook
Google Notebook has its own Google Group.
It Begins Again
December 28, 2006 – Click on image for higher resolution version.
I couldn’t believe how much had accumulated when I got home from shopping for a few groceries this morning.
Four Wheeling
I view 4WD rather like having seat belts in the car: something I like having, but would much rather never use. Today, since I had ordered a much needed 30 bales of hay from our supplier, I decided I should drive the Subaru Forrester out to the barn under the theory that if the Subaru could get there, a ton truck with 4WD should have no trouble. With a little digging I got the Subaru there and back again several times. (I wonder if any of the neighbors noticed me driving back and forth to the barn.) I even enjoyed skidding through some of the drifts. An hour later, the hay supplier showed up and delivered the hay without difficulty.
I had errands in town, and arranged to have lunch with a friend. As I drove south on I-25, the steering wheel started to vibrate. Even though I hadn’t hit anything during my “off-road” experience, I thought maybe I had knocked a wheel off balance. Fortunately, my friend was able to pick me up at Tire World, which was apparently doing a land rush business. They were so busy that I was astonished to get a call a little past 5, saying that my car was ready. Evidently some snow had stuck inside to the wheels, causing them to seem off-balance. Oh well, the car needed an oil change anyway.
I am thrilled to have it back because there is a forecast of another significant winter storm for Colorado. I really feel sorry for those people who may catch it coming and going on their holiday travel plans.