Last Thursday went to Northern Lights Community School’s Presentation Night where the students and faculty get to show off. Saw some pretty good Science Fair projects, but the highlight was the school band playing a few numbers. They did very well, especially considering that most of the students just started playing their instrument [...]
Archive for April, 2008
As of now (Sunday evening) most of the snow and sleet have melted. This morning it was very icy out until the sun warmed things up enough to melt. Lots of standing water right now.
Oops
Matt pointed out to me this evening that there was no www.hartshorn.org website. I told him “yes there is”, and proceeded to open the page up on my PC. I then realized that at home and at work my primary browser is Firefox, while for many other folks the primary browser is Internet [...]
Winter Storm Warning
If there is one thing I’ve learned since moving to MN 18 years ago, it is that the weather here is unpredictable. Case in point: This morning the 6:08am NWS point forecast for southern Itasca County said
“Snow. High near 37. Breezy, with a north wind 10 to 15 mph. Winds could gust as high as [...]
Well, the rain ain’t here yet, but it’s sitting just off to the west. Watched lightning in the distance ahead of me all the way into work this morning. Now they are talking +6 inches of snow Friday afternoon and more thru Saturday. Hope they are wrong.
Gas went to 3.499 yesterday afternoon, most of the [...]
Been doing a bit of digging on SAN, NAS, iSCSI, and similar. I’m trying to move the servers at the network from a whole bunch of disparate boxes with DAS to blades with iSCSI connect to a SAN, and Management doesn’t understand the need. I am trying to learn enough about the subject [...]
Gas still at 3.399 this am, expect it to rise again today with crude prices posting record $118/bbl price this morning.
Weather yesterday afternoon was beautiful, saw 72 degrees on one public thermometer, then had showers and t-storms during the night, .5 inch rain reported.
My head cold is finally starting to let up.
W-6
Hadn’t planned it that way, but we brought the W-6 home this weekend.
Put some work into it, oil and filter change, grease job, new muffler, $30, pair of used car tires for the front $50. New 3 rib tractor tires are $110 each plus mounting, and the ones that came on it [...]
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