The moving van is here!

As many of you dear readers may already know Gretchen and I are moving to the vicinity of Portland OR. We for the past three weeks have been working hard to secure new lodgings, pack, and move; but mostly to fix up all the little things on the house to help make it attractive to a buyer. It's been exhausting, and frankly the next three days might prove to be the hardest. The house is pretty much all fixed up, we are hoping to do a bit more painting, and now comes the heavy lifting (my favorite part). The rented moving van is in our diveway and all of our worldly possessions must go into it, or to the garbage dump!

I've already made one trip with Gretchens truck and a trailer; both full of many of our heaviest things. But there is still quite a bit left to go. Everything in the Garage, Shed, Kitchen, Living room, Store room, Under the stairs, Gretchen's Office, My computer room, and the master bedroom. Thursday and especially Friday are going to be days of intense packing.

Wish us luck!

Selling and Moving

Gretchen and I are working very hard to gussy up our home to help get it sold. Unfortunately the new kitchen countertops won't be installed untill December 2nd. So our new plan is to move about December 6th. I've got to go get back to it; got some doors to hang and a wall to build!

No comments please...

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Missing the Mentkowski's

At first I didn't understand. I mean it was functional, thoughtful, and fun:  unwrapping a Bonne Bell Lip-Smacker from my Christmas stocking every year.  But I don't really use lip balm... 

I must have known, even then, somewhere in my subconscious what they really meant; or would mean to me.  I kept every one.

There is only one repeat, watermelon.  I miss you Sue & Tim.

One of these thing is not like the other.

OK, I've heard that people have strong opinions about this... Which one is 'correct' for you?  I like the right hand (front dispensing) one, but as long as it's not empty I'm a happy camper.  :-)

Wikipedia

Wikipedia seems to be asking for money again.  IMHO they are the single most powerful source of information equity in the world today. 

Consider how printed newspapers have died because of competition on the internet.  Consider how book sellers are dying because of book selling on the internet.  Even printed books are struggling; mostly (Again IMHO) because the publishing industry (Like the recording industry, and the movie industry.....) can't handle such a powerful shift of format and the resulting shift in supply vs demand....  

Anyway the point is, libraries can't grow if there are no books.  Soon libraries (The ones that aren't on line anyway) might stagnate and die.

Wikipedia, and places like the Kahn academy, will be the only public repositories of knowledge that the planet will have left.  Forget the 10,000 year clock...  Lets all donate enough money to Jimmy Wales so that he can build a facility to house Wikipedia for 10,000 years.  Or just give 3$ and feel good about keeping a good thing going.

I don't feel guilt when I see the Wikipedia banner asking for money; I get excited about being asked to help.   It's our information, it's our Wikipedia; and it could be REALLY important.

.....  so if Kahn academy (and others) are for education, Wikipedia for facts, and most of the rest of the internet is for fiction; where do we put history?

Busted: Apple

I've never liked Apples corporate attitude; so I probably enjoyed this article way too much... Macbook Owner With Defective GPU Beats Apple In Court For all of you who haven't heard from me in a while. Hi! There is a LAN party on the Saturday the 28th if you are in the SLC area and interested.