• Home Improvement

    Fan C

    July 18, 2009 - By 

    We’re planning on using some upcoming vacation time to do some home improvement projects… yes, it’s The Floor Project From Hell: Next Generation, and theoretically The Floor Project From Hell: Back To Bed. Part of that project will be adding 2 ceiling fans in the two “guest” bedrooms (with the help of a real electrician) and so today we went around looking at fans. There’s a place in the neighborhood that actually specializes in fans, so we went there first. Interesting experience: it’s a small stripmall store front, absolutely stuff full of stacks and stacks of boxed ceiling fans. There…

  • Mini-Posts

    Contact!

    July 18, 2009 - By 

    The second week of my attempt to get used to soft contact lenses begins. My eye doctor advised a different method, which causes me no end of frustration. This method seems easier to deal with. Bausch & Lomb: Inserting and Removing Your Soft Contact Lenses Inserting the lens into your eyes 1. You may want to rinse your lenses in a multi-purpose such as ReNu MultiPlus® Multi-Purpose Solution before you put them on. 2. Put one of the lenses on the tip of the index finger of the hand you write with. Be sure the lens is right-side-out (the edges…

  • Geek Out!

    Moon Landing Sites

    July 18, 2009 - By 

    Loving the pictures of the lunar landing sites being sent back… you can even see a footpath left by Apollo 14’s astronauts in one image. BBC NEWS | Science & Environment | New images of Moon landing sites Photo A US spacecraft has captured images of Apollo landing sites on the Moon, revealing hardware and a trail of footprints left on the lunar surface. The release of the images coincides with the 40th anniversary of the first manned mission to land on the Moon. The descent stages from the lunar modules which carried astronauts to and from the Moon can…