December 12

I fixed my father in law’s computer today.  He’s running Ubuntu (mostly unbeknownst to him) which makes my life easier in doing remote support.  But Thunderbird managed to get messed up in some way that I couldn’t diagnose over the phone, so I made a housecall.

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December 11

I was so annoyed at the smoke detector near the kitchen tonight (“it’s not a a fire, it’s just homemade pizza, you stupid thing!”) that I flung it onto the floor to dislodge its batteries.
 
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Fortunately we have a spare.

December 8

Those of you who have been to our old house in Southboro probably remember the cat step in the office.  I made this step so that our cats could get to the window sill and sniff the world in the good weather, but as it turns out they both liked to just sit on it.

Recently, Parker has taken to occupying our office chairs — if he could sit on both at the same time, I think he would.  This makes it somewhat inconvenient to use the office.  So I reinstalled the step in our new office, hoping he would use it instead.  It sometimes works, as seen here.

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More often, though, it’s Winnie who occupies the step, and Parker continues to claim an office chair.

December 3

This is a picture of my open sunroof.  I kept it open all the way home tonight.  Why? Because as I am typing this it is STILL 60 degrees outside, and at commute time it was even warmer.  Of course, it’s supposed to snow on Saturday.

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(Yes, we’re inside the garage.  I couldn’t very well take the picture outside or the winter moths would have attacked me.)