Archive for May, 2005

working on Sunday

Monday, May 30th, 2005

We figured the new house would be empty on the Sunday of a 3-day weekend... guessed wrong since a team of Brazilians (?) were busy working away still at 5pm... anyway, here's how the bedroom is starting to look: The gallery has been updated with a few more pictures...

europe

Monday, May 30th, 2005

some miscellaneous things about the EU... but mostly France: The European Union's output per person ranks below that of 46 American states (George Will) In France, 22 percent of those under age 25 are unemployed (George Will) The French President Jacques Chirac is called a "conservative"?!

wine

Thursday, May 26th, 2005

Here's another reason for the move to NH. We picked up a bottle of Robert Mondavi Private Selection Pinot Grigio yesterday in MA for about $12... took a look at the NH state liquor store web site and see we could buy it for $3 less. Great ...

house picture

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

The outside of the house is just about done... here's how it looks now:

greasemonkey

Thursday, May 19th, 2005

The greasemonkey Firefox extension is a cool thing... it allows the user to add customized user scripts to a page in order to alter the default behavior. Sort of crosses the line in that you can change what the publisher of content wants you to see but I really ...

more house pictures

Monday, May 16th, 2005

Didn't go inside the house yesteday since someone was installing the HVAC system... here's how it's looking now... ... next trip up - Friday.

few more days work

Tuesday, May 10th, 2005

After 3 more working days... here's how it looks:

a house appears

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

About a week ago the builders started framing the house... here's a few pictures we took last night. At some point the rest will show up in the picture gallery.