The town, in its infinite wisdom, has decided to save money by turning off street lights on streets with more than six lights. My street is one of them.
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At the moment, I don't have a cap on the back of my pickup truck, but I do have a small, bright orange, pumpkin shaped trick-or-treat bucket in the back of the pickup truck.
While driving down the highway today, I could hear the bucket bouncing around, then suddenly I noticed a flash of orange in my rearview mirror. Then it appeared again. In the weird aerodynamics of the truck bed, periodically the wind would catch the bucket and cause it to rise up high enough that I could see it, but not so high that it would leave the truck.
I wonder what the cars behind me thought about the popping pumpkin?
For weeks now, I've been driving past the School Street Bridge in Lowell and admiring the Merrimack River and a dam next to the bridge (while Ann was driving).
Today, I finally had the opportunity to stop and explore the area and discover a little about the area's history.
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| View of the bridge and the dam from the road. From Lowell - Northern Canal and Pawtucket Dam |
From earlier this evening (it amused me).
Just got back home from seeing the play "Never After". It has one more performance tomorrow at 3pm at the Somerville Theater. If you can, I recommend seeing it.
"Never After is a different kind of fairytale: the story of Princess Lesley Anne, fated from birth to be a lesbian. She escapes her castle to find adventure, true love, some very merry men, and her own identity - and starts a revolution along the way!"
http://neveraftermusical.com/
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To the cast and crew who are reading this: Bravo!
The town is repaving my street. Yesterday, a large and scary machine(*) chewed up the old blacktop. Today, a vibrating steamroller has been going up and down the street compacting the dirt.
Comparing how the house is vibrating and the location of the steam roller, I'm convinced that with the right sensor equipment I could map the different types of soil in the neighborhood.
Fun with a cheap pair of cardboard "Firework Glasses" (diffraction grating for lenses).
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While talking on the phone with my father, I looked out the kitchen window and saw a few visitors in the backyard. As soon as I finished talking to him, I grabbed my camera and tiptoed outside.
( Turkeys! )
This morning I woke up from a dream about exploring a foreign city. The last thing I remember was a pastry shop that had yummy looking desserts. The strangest of them was a pan of brownies with donuts embedded in them.
Now I'm wondering if it would be possible to make the brownies without ending up with desiccated donuts?
While sitting at my computer with some music playing, I heard a rustling noise coming from the papers next to me. Looking down, I saw a degu looking up at me. While I carefully backed my chair out from my desk the degu waddled off into Ann's room. I quickly went to the room with the degu cage and checked the cage I accidentally left open and determined that both degus were on the loose.
Going back to Ann's room, I quickly retrieved the degus and returned them to their cage. They seemed rather annoyed that I interrupted the fun the were having exploring the rooms.
It looks like the folks at the Boston Globe are getting a bit fed up with the rain. Last week, they ran a graphic on how to build an ark.
http://www.boston.com/news/weather/gall
Seven years ago today, a bunch of our friends came over to our house and helped Ann and I celebrate our wedding.
Would you like to support Massachusetts libraries while driving your car?
A portion of the fee to register the plate goes to Massachusetts libraries.
http://www.cmrls.org/plates.htm
If anyone is interested, here is how I got a Dreamwidth account without getting an invite from a friend.
Yesterday afternoon (before the account signup opened up), I used my LJ OpenID (deguspice.livejournal.com) to sign into Dreamwidth (read-only access). After I setup the account, I clicked on the button to verify my email address. This morning, there was an email from Dreamwidth saying that in appreciation for my confirming my email address, they invited my to signup for an account.
I decided to become one of the cool kids and signed up for dreamwidth. It sounds like it has some useful features (for managing flists that LJ doesn't have) that make it worth checking out.
(also testing the cross post to LJ feature)
Here's a useful web page:
http://www.irs.gov/individuals/arti
It'll tell you the status of your tax refund. But you'll need to know the exact dollar amount of your refund (they're using it as a password)
"You can generally access information about your refund 72 hours after IRS acknowledges receipt of your e-filed return, or three to four weeks after mailing a paper return."
The site told me I'll get my refund on May 12th. If the CPA did his job, we'll get a nice refund because of a carry-over loss from 1995.
Here's a comic strip to share with your sweetie, especially if you've been together for a while.
( Arlo and Janis, April 20, 2009 )
I'm at a SF con with the usual assortment of characters, plus real dwarves and witches. Regis' brother (only one brother in this dream) was the leader of a group of dwarf soldiers.
In addition to the usual smoffing, there was some sort of battle going on between an evil witch and the dwarves.
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