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<p>Full weekend, on Saturday I re-wired the living room fan to make the controller un-switched, but ended up tying it to the wrong switch. Realized before we went square dancing what I'd done wrong, but didn't have time to fix.</p> <p><div class="imageleft" style="width: 120px;"><a…
<p>Charlene and I tried out our new Halloween masks (<a href="http://www.flutterby.net/Hands_Masks">some more pictures of those here</a>) at the Monsters I'd Like To Funk party at the Presidio Yacht Club dive bar in Sausalito on the evening of October 25th, where we'd gone to hear the Funkanauts.</p> <p><div…
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<p>Some times it's helpful to look back on what was. A couple of pictures that came off Charlene's phone:</p> <p><div class="imageleft" style="width: 120px;"><a href="http://www.flutterby.net/Image:2013-08-16KitchenBefore.jpg"><img…
<p><div class="imageleft" style="width: 67px;"><a href="http://www.flutterby.net/Image:2013-09-10NewKitchenFloor.jpg"><img src="http://www.flutterby.net/wiki/images/thumb/c/c9/2013-09-10NewKitchenFloor.jpg/67px-2013-09-10NewKitchenFloor.jpg" width="67" height = "119"…
<p>About a month ago, in a fit of insanity, Charlene and I said "let's go figure out the appliances we want to replace our refrigerator and dishwasher with". So we did, and then we ordered them.</p> <p>They arrived and have been cluttering up the garage because our kitchen configuration didn't have room for them. Thus started the mad kitchen…
<h2><a id="h2:Boring_Backstory" name="h2:Boring_Backstory"></a>Boring Backstory</h2><p>Back in <a href="http://www.flutterby.net/2011-04-30_Boat_Race">2011 I was part of a team that won the Bodega Bay Wooden Boat Challenge</a>, and in <a…
<p>From the <a href="http://www.flutterby.net/2013-07-07_Weave_Your_Heart_recap">square dancing convention</a> we came back to reality for two days, and then jetted off to Ohio for a family get together.</p> <p>My Dad and I undertook to get the nephews to help build a boat:</p> <p><div class="imageleft"…
<h2><a name="h2:Intro" id="h2:Intro"></a>Intro</h2><p>The event: <a href="http://www.flutterby.net/Weave_Your_Heart_in_San_Francisco">Weave Your Heart in San Francisco</a>, the 30th <a href="http://www.flutterby.net/IAGSDC">IAGSDC</a> square dancing convention, at the…
<p>This spring has been rough. Among other challenges, last year we bought non-refundable plane tickets for <a href="http://www.flutterby.net/Category:2013-04_Albuquerque_Trip">a vacation over Charlene's spring break</a>, and then this winter interest rates plummeted, and we decided to refinance. But, of course, before refinancing we wanted to do…
<p><div class="imageleft" style="width: 120px;"><a href="http://www.flutterby.net/Image:2013-04-27BoatConstruction1.JPG"><img src="http://www.flutterby.net/wiki/images/thumb/3/3d/2013-04-27BoatConstruction1.JPG/120px-2013-04-27BoatConstruction1.JPG" width="120" height = "90"…
<p>Balloon ride!</p> <p>Up at 5:30 to get over to the awesome folks at <a href="http://www.rainbowryders.com/">Rainbow Ryders</a>. Our pilot was Troy Bradley, holder of some amazing numbers of world records, flying since he was 14, and his son, Bobby Bradley, now 11, soloed for his balloon pilot's license two years ago.</p>…
<p>Drove down to Los Lunas, dropped in at their museum shortly, wandered around the El Cerro de Los Lunas park a bit. Found petrified wood and a couple of agates in a wash there</p> <p><div class="imageleft" style="width: 120px;"><a href="http://www.flutterby.net/Image:2013-04-10WashNearLosLunas.jpg"><img…
<p>Went and wandered through the Bosque along the Rio Grande:</p> <p><div class="imageright" style="width: 120px;"><a href="http://www.flutterby.net/Image:2013-04-08BeaverToothMarksOnCottonwood.jpg"><img…