Chaos Server

I live my life a quarter mile at a time. Nothing else matters. - Dom (Fast and the Furious Friday we had dinner with my parents follow by a visit to Home Depot. We learned something - not a lot of people go to Home Depot on Friday night. One of the people working there started to help us out and then just went aisle to aisle with us the night. It's the first time I've had a personal shopping assistant at the Depot, and it was nice. Though it was pointed out that we're not allowed to call ourselves newly-weds when our Friday night date night involves shopping at the Depot. We've done a bunch of nice updates to the house as part of it. We replaced the show rods in the master with shower hooks. We changed out the other bathroom to a double towel bar. Mrs.Chaos is building jewelry cases inside of shadow boxes and mounting them to the wall. I've got to finish installed the fence in front of the AC unit and putting up the motion sensing light on the front d...

This Library afforded me the Means of Improvement by constant Study, for which I set apart an Hour or two each Day - Ben Franklin Your tax dollars pay for the public library system. It is worth every penny. In high school I would bike down the road to the public library and spend a few hours there on an afternoon or weekend. I read the various computer trader magazines and would take down notes of what I wanted to do or photocopy pages out. My parents paid for me me to subscribe to one of them at home, but I wanted to read the others without letting my allowance take a hit. I remember that one (BYTE or PC World) would have assembly programs in them that I always looked forward to typing in when I got home. So it was a great habit of mine to bike there and read the magazines. I also devoured the Sci-Fi/Fantasy section of the library using the patent-pending "how to find an awesome book" method. After college my habits remained when I was living in San Leandro and when I...