Rufus The Doofus

After 8 months it’s finally here.

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We did get another long-overdue project started while dad was in town. (That’s him throwing a tantrum above.)

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I haven’t posted any updates on the Cruiser in a while. A few weeks after we got home from our West Trip we took the top off of the BJ42. It’s a really fun topless summer vehicle. (That’s it sitting in our “parking spot” up at our camp on Jim Pond.) Getting the top off was pretty easy. I left the aluminum roof rack in place clamped to the rain gutters and picked the whole thing up with the tractor’s forks. It was surprisingly easy. I hope getting it back on there goes just as smoothly.

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I know this photo doesn’t look like anything like slave labor but it’s there. You just have to look for it.

Did you know that Ohio has some of the best slave laborers in the lower 48 States?

For the price of airfare, food and beer you too can have your very own Buckeye State slave laborer. It’s a great deal. You should look into it if you have retired relatives in Ohio.
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I’m not a big fan of summer. It’s hot, humid and there’s bugs. The last couple of days I’ve been longing for the fall foliage season and looking forward to winter. I started looking though some of the hundreds of photos on my computer that haven’t been posted and found this one. It’s our driveway in April, otherwise known as “mud season”.

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Why is weather.com never accurate for our area? I just don’t understand.

The screenshot above was taken a few minutes ago. The “high” today is supposed to be 82. It’s already 92 and it’s just before 11 am. I don’t get it. It’s not like this is a fluke either. They are consistently inaccurate with temperatures and forecasts for our area. The only good thing about the site is their radar imagery.

Why am I sniveling about the weather?

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I’ve been working on cleaning the garage the past few days. Why? I needed to find a 14mm box-end wrench recently and gave up after up after 30 minutes of digging through piles and boxes. I know I have at least six of these wrenches somewhere in the garage. The whole experience reminded me of trying to find stuff in my uncle Tom’s garage.

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It’s been a little over two weeks since lightning blasted some of my stuff. My “computer” life is starting to get back to normal finally.

The new Dell Precision T7400 arrived. I’ve been working on getting it setup for the past few days. It’s a dual quad-core Xeon system so I installed Windows Server 2008, the SQL Server 2008 release candidate, Visual Studio 2008 and a whole host of other stuff that I need to do my job. I’ve never used Windows 2008 or SQL 2008. (I used SQL 2005 only briefly.) That’s all brand new to me but I’d like to jump into it as I get into .NET development. So far I’m underwhelmed with the software but the computer is screaming fast.

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It’s the summer solstice today, the first day of summer and the longest day of the year. Ain’t that special? So special we’re having a party and you’re invited. See ya tonight.

Don’t know what the Summer Solstice is?

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When you’re self-employed and go on vacation for a month there’s always a ton of stuff to catch up on when you get home. That’s what I’ve been up to for the last week. Unfortunately mother nature threw me some curve balls mid-week that we a real pain in the butt.
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