Progressive Odyssey

While I was out of town this past week, my sister and her husband came to help visit and assist my wife with all the running of the house an...

The dirt is definitely smoother but this photo is deceiving. There's still much more to move in and a lot of smoothing still to go. ...

So, before we begin with the pictures, the difference between a National Park and a National Monument in the United States has only to do w...

Starting to move the pile of dirt in the drive to hole in the backyard.  Here's how the pile looked as left by the dump trucks. The dirt...

Finished last night: Bermuda grass, the type of grass that pretty much covers our back yard because it does so well in the hot and dry ...

Two trips to the home improvement store later, the temporary sprinkler system is in place. Four heads at the corner of the court. The...

Completed last night and photographed this morning: The trench on the left side is to support two new sprinkler heads placed at the c...

I finished this up a few days ago after the sun had gone down and thus had to wait to get the picture. Next up, hack in a few extra s...

Progress from last nights efforts. You can take pictures like this at 9pm in the evening when you live up north. Also, you can stay up later...

When we purchased this house, the backyard was mostly a basketball court. Wanting to have more than asphalt to enjoy in the summer, we have ...

You know OK Go; they're the band that does the creative and adventurous music videos. I've linked to their videos in the past and I...

When moving into our new building at work, we were all given little status lights to place on the top of our cubicle walls; they looked lik...

Last time I left-off having built a second version of the pre-amp proper using the designers suggested layout and the circuit worked much ...

Our vacuum cleaner stopped running for more than a second or two at a time so I tried fixing it. After all of this work, I determined th...

As I noted in my last post , I was fairly sure my pre-amp was not working correctly and I was going to try to recommended layouts from the d...

I had a business trip last week to Seattle and due to my route cutting through the mountains in winter, I asked for an all-wheel drive renta...

I was getting ready to update the hardware on my air-conditioner measurement system when I realized that I had never written about the init...

A nerdy friend of mine plays electronic keyboard at his church for Sunday morning services. He's expressed a desire to have some kind...

On the to-do list since we moved: get my amateur radio station set back up. We have a larger yard and a two-story house and I've been sc...

Our phone system at work is set up to send us a text transcription of each voicemail we receive, called a "Voice Mail Preview". I ...