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Home ownership a year later

It was a year ago today that we closed on our house. Time just flies doesn’t it. We had barely moved in before starting to tear things out, most noticably the carpet in the three rooms. We were planning on doing the rest of the living room this summer, but that may not end up happening until later on in the year depending on the cash flow situation.

In the meantime, we have actual patches of real grass starting to grow in the back yard! The sod in the front yard is starting to look a little on the patchy side though, so I think I’ll have to do something about that soon.

The rest of the house is cruising along nicely. No major breakdowns or flaws that I’ve seen or noticed. At the moment, the two projects we have in the near future are extending the patio out back and maybe laying down some sod on the side of the house where all the sand was left over from construction.

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Installing FC5 and still going

Yesterday I finally found a few spare moments to go ahead and start upgrading my Fedora Core 4 box to Fedora Core 5. I don’t know if it’s because I’m doing the upgrade instead of the new installation, but it’s still going this morning. Granted there was the 12 hour break between going home and coming back to work, so all together I’d say the upgrade process has taken about 7 hours so far, and I’m only on disk 4 of 5.
Each time a new CD goes in, the installer spends a good long time (maybe an hour or so?) doing this ‘Preparing transaction from installation source’ thing before it gets to actually installing any of the packages. Not quite sure what’s going on during this time, but there’s a heck of a lot of disk activity happening. Maybe it’s just this computer…
I figure at this rate the upgrade should be finished by the time I go home today and I’ll be able to start messing with FC5 tomorrow.

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A twist on maps

Well, this is an interesting twist on GoogleMaps. ASCII Maps gives you GoogleMaps in ASCII characters. See your favourite places rendered in text!

Google Maps in ASCII characters. Pure silliness for your enjoyment

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My day at the park

Today we had a fun day at the park with mom, dad and that bratty brother of mine. I got to have more fun though, because he’s still too little and had to stay cooped up in his crate. Nyah nyah nyah.
We went to that park downtown where all the people go to buy stuff from other people under tents. There were lots of dogs there today which made it especially fun.
First dad entered me in this contest and made me walk up and down in front of some people who kept looking at me.
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I didn’t win anything, but dad was still happy anyway.
Then we walked around to check out everything. We saw lots of neat looking dogs. There were big dogs
Big dogs
and really little dogs
little dogs
a really drooly dog
a drooly dog
and a bunch of dogs like me
dogs like me!
We even saw another dog trying to get donations to help other greyhounds get nice homes with people.
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After that we went to another party with all kinds of other dogs like me. The best part was getting to swim and play in the water! There were all kinds of fun things to do like running into the water to grab things. One contest was to see who could jump into the water the best.
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Another contest was to see who could bring the toy back fastest. I got third place in that one! It was fun!
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Then everyone got to go in at the same time and play.
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Even that silly brother of mine got into the water to play. He did pretty good for going swimming for the first time.
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A pretty cool day.

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The weekend’s going to the dogs

Lots to do this weekend and it all involves dogs.
First up on Saturday morning is the Charleston Dog Show downtown along with the Farmer’s Market. Farmer’s Market is always a fun place to take Nala. Add in the dog show and it’s madness. Much fun though. Just watch your step.
Then we rush out to a spring picnic hosted by the local lab retriever club for more fun with even more dogs. Just labs this time though.