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Photos that amuse me. I was driving somewhere and messing with the
Stratus with ForeFlight.
The rest of the stuff from early 2015.
The three cats enjoying the snowy view. It was really really cold in February:
February was the first big round of adoption paperwork. I sent the
first application packet with a commemorative inverted-Jenny stamp. I
figured we could use all the luck we could get (so far it's paid off;
things are going well).
Again, cold while driving.
And snow coming down. I highlighted a couple of big flake clusters
with arrows.
One step back. We managed to leave a hose on the front spigot, and
the cold weather froze the tap, and the valve had a crack in it when
it was open. Here's before:
And after:
(As of this writing, December 27, the outside tape is still broken.
Argh.)
Oooh--another technical success. And this one I did once and is
finished! I replaced the plug on the vacuum cleaner:
And one final photo of Pangur and Thrice watching the snow.
Before everything got crazy in March, here are some overall posts that kind of cover January and February. In two separate posts to avoid photo overload.
I am ever-so-slowly collecting parts and tools to put my 1972 VW
engine back together. I'm going to tap the case to plumb in an oil
filter. To do this, I got the proper drill bit, tapered ream, and 3/8
NPT tap:
And, in a fit of organization, I put them in a box and labelled them!
Amazing!
Rare picture of all three cats:
A minor home improvement. This is in the "library" on our ground
floor. I put a rack for coats on the left wall here, so that when we
have coats to hang up, we can do it somewhere other than the official
coat closet in the center of the house which is far away from the
doors and also where the cat food lives.
Pangur disapproving of whatever I'm saying on the phone.
I made some moderate effort earlier in the year to organize my stuff
on the main floor (culminating in the drawer that serves as a desk
from the last post). Here's my half of the library table desk
organized (which I'm sure was short-lived, but an important step nonetheless).
Also in the organizational front, I got some nice storage trays from
Harbor Freight and made organization out of the chaos of the socket trays in the
tool box.
And finally Thrice doing her Meerkat impression.
At the Cabin over Christmas. Burning paper trash here. I just liked
the shot of the burn barrel and the creek.
It's been a hell of a year. As of October, all of the settings of the Back to the Future movies are now in the past. Our "Log In Date" for our adoption portfolio was mid-November, so that's exciting. We're taking Mandarin Chineese (mostly spoken, some written).
Aaaaaaand my father-in-law died a couple of weeks ago. :-( Thus we ended up here longer than expected, and we had (and still have) lots to do. Oy. An ugly transition. Very sad. We're still getting used to it.
So I'm going to try to get posts up that summarize the interesting bits of the year. Here's the one for this trip.
One interesting thing: my wife and I gave this record/CD/tape
player/radio to my father-in-law in...it must have been 2002. I tried
to play a CD in it, and the drive is jammed. Apparently he used it so
much that he wore out the drive mechanism. I'm incredibly gratified.
This is the back of the Explorer about to head back from the memorial
service. The cylinder on the right is a 1/6th keg of beer, so that we
wouldn't run out when all the people came back to the house. We
swapped it in before the night was over. People got a kick out of my
walking across the road to the liquor store and bringing the keg back
with my funeral clothes on.
And I got some Taurus driving in while running errands; some day driving
and some night driving:
And I got to drive the Explorer a bit. It's fairly new one, so it has
the fancy digital dash.
And the climate controls are complicated enough to launch a space ship.
Charging back-up cell phone batteries. The cable is obviously better
because it has glowy lights in it. :-D The charger is one of the a
great set of Sprint chargers that are both car chargers and wall
chargers, and they have lights on them.
My Christmas present to my self is this comically large tap handle. I
got this because I'm going to tap the engine block of my VW for an oil
filter, and the tap is large enough that it doesn't fit in a normal
tap handle. The beer can is for scale.
I was sitting on the couch studying for my Chinese language final.
This photo is absolutely not posed; Jasper came, sat down with me, and
put the royal paw on my books. I think it's a hilarious pose; it's
great that he looks so stern.
I've had a long-term project around the main floor of the house to
kind of get my stuff organized in a longer-term way. I like having a
working desk that I pile stuff on to work on or sort, but of course
that gets piled up. So I cleared out this drawer, so it can be the
"to be sorted" or "to be gone through" piles, so it's out of the way.
Of course, as is no surprise, Pangur is helping.
All for now. More entries on the year as I get photos edited.