Tuesday morning, this picture summed up exactly how I felt. I got up anyway and went to work, where things were mostly normal. Except we’re going to do some semi-complex things with a new machine, and we didn’t have a good plan for that yet. So we made one. And then I spent an hour [...]

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For the entire week, one of our guys is on vacation. He’s not really on vacation, because his wife had to travel because of a family emergency, but he’s taking care of all the dogs. His wife owns a dogsitting business. Computers aren’t nearly as cute and fuzzy as dogs, but they don’t chew on [...]

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This is the last picture from the camping trip last week, where I’m holding up a log that I cut. We weren’t doing any fishing or hunting on the trip, so this is what I get in the way of trophy pictures. Lazy Sunday, minus the scramble around 8am when one machine at work failed [...]

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Saturday was Range Day. I got to Zach’s place a little after 8:30am. He was totally ready to go. We threw his guns in the back of my car and settled down to wait for Teh Nacho. After about an hour, we said, “What the heck? Did he not know we were supposed to meet [...]

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Indy here does not approve of Caturday. Friday was fairly normal with one exception. Went out to lunch with everyone, and half of us ate at the coney island place, while the other half ate at the Japanese place next door. We all ate outside at adjacent tables, because it’s cool enough to eat outside [...]

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This is the huge wasp that I mentioned a few entries ago. I haven’t been able to find out what kind of wasp it was since there are so many different kinds mentioned on Wikipedia, and entomology is a part of biology I never paid much attention to. Hm. Thursday morning, the bus had a [...]

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Everything, especially camping, goes better with bacon. While it may be cheating to cook bacon over a propane stove rather than a fire, it still tasted great. Wednesday had the usual Rock Band at Steve’s. However, my Xbox started behaving weirdly when I plugged it in and turned it on. It spontaneously rebooted after 30-120 [...]

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Here, we see Zach’s tent, with Luka and Indy in the bottom right corner. Monday wasn’t that exciting, except the bus was really empty. Tons of the people who ride the bus work for the state or county governments, and those people all get Columbus Day off. Those of us in the private sector or [...]

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This is the campfire we cooked dinner on on Saturday night. Of course, after we had all gone to bed, Zach heard something outside. He got up and found a skunk trying to get into our garbage. He was a little worried about trying to scare the skunk off, as skunks don’t scare easily, but [...]

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Saturday, the plan was for me, Zach, Sarah, and their friend Steve to go out camping. Of course, Steve got sick, and Zach and Sarah were delayed. So we went without Steve, and a bit later than we’d planned. Anyway, I’d planned a bit better than last time, so my cooler was full of enough [...]

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