Author: doug

It’s good our contractor keeps a TODO list.  I guess he ran out of paper.

First grill-roasted chicken breast of the season.

We went to Jeff & Andrea’s for a Kitchen Roadshow this evening.  For dessert, they provided cute little pies.

As if expanding spray foam weren’t gaudy enough, the fire-block formula is bright orange.

Braising a beef tongue for lengua tacos in preparation for Kitchen Road Show on Cinco de Mayo.

Out with friends at Saloon, a speakeasy-style restaurant in Davis Square.

Our kitchen scale is broken. I took it apart to see if there was anything clearly wrong. Seventeen screws later, the answer is no.

The contractor ripped up the old oak floor in our ex-sunroom today. Evidently the flooring contractor wasn’t happy about the idea of putting new strip flooring down over the old. Here’s one of the old boards, from 1935, still with the manufacturer’s label on the back.

Yes, that’s the same “Bruce” that’s still selling hardwood flooring today.

I upgraded Hitchcock to Mythbuntu 12.04 and MythTV 0.25 today. As you can see, not all went as smoothly as could be hoped. It’s recording & playing back now, but hangs on shutdown and doesn’t auto-login the mythtv user yet.

I had to take down the Barrister bookcase today to run some speaker wires, so I took the opportunity to make a couple wedge shims to replace the little bits of wood that had been leveling it. It certainly looks more stable, even if the actual points where it touches are the same.