Month: October 2009

I thought this was a great name for a mobile pet-grooming business.

Once again, the view from the big conference room at work is pretty spectacular.

We had an insulation contractor come today and button up a few areas of our house that needed it.  My picture today was going to be of that process … insulation-blowing tubes running all over the place, guys carrying bats of insulation, etc. 

But they also managed to knock into the pipe that feeds water into our house and cause it to spring a leak!  Totally not their fault — it had been “temporarily” repaired previously and was ready to go at any minute.  Fortunately the town came out and was able to do another temporary fix (for free!).  This was really more excitement than I really needed today.

At some point — could be next year, could be 10 years from now — we will need to have the front lawn ripped up and the whole pipe replaced.  But for now I say — thanks Newton Public Works!

I spent the entire day inside doing uninteresting stuff (on purpose; it was marvelous) and so today’s picture is simply a boggle at the concept of accumulating snow in mid-October.

After helping Greg & Jen paint, I went to the BeerAdvocate Belgian beer fest in Boston today with a bunch of people (I feel like they could have come up with a “b” word for “fest”).  It was fun, though I felt it was too crowded & loud to really have a conversation with the brewers, or to get to know any of the beers well.  Still, there were a couple of standouts that will be making an appearance in my beer fridge soon.

Winnie was being very friendly & adorable this evening.

Sorry for the blurry — she wouldn’t hold still.

It’s good to know that The Highlander has found honest work again — in Newton no less.

With the approach of dark in the evenings, it was time to do something about lighting automation in the new house.  The paddle on the left controls the outside porch light, and is controllable by the computer for use on a timer.  The keypad in the middle consolidates a lot of controls into one place, but is primarily of use to control 3 floors’ stairway lights from here (and from 2 other similar keypads on the other two floors).

Running for mayor in Quincy is a man …

… who may or may not win, but would get my vote for “most likely to be a corrupt politician on an animated sitcom.”

It may not look like much now, but tomorrow these ingredients will be yummy flatbread dough.  Thanks, bread machine!