trees; Road School

This past weekend my wife, our dad's and I took down the trees in our front yard. The more north tree was easier. It was shorter and only had our electrical line and our house to worry about. We removed the electrical line and took it down on friday. The other tree was much more difficult as it was 60 ft tall (the lift we rented only got us 45 ft) and was over our house and our neighbors electrical line. We had to tie off almost every branch, top it, and carve it into managable peices. Then we moved on to the next branch. It was a very slow process and took 2 days to complete.

Now we have (still) all of the tree in our front yard layered between 1-4 ft tall. My wife's job over the next few weeks will be to cut, collect, burn or store all of the wood. I hope it's all done by the weekend of April 22. I want to go to Gary's wedding without having to worry about the wood around the house.

I have refrained from doing much work on the trees debris while Joyce was at Road School at Purdue. It's risky to wield a chainsaw while other are around to call 911; it's suicidal to do so while one is alone. Joyce had fun stomping arround Purdue again, so it was worth it I believe. I'll probably hear all about it tonight.

Stupid rain.

Saturday night we had a thunderstorm. The storm was preceded by 5 days of rain. Thus there was no where for the rain to go on Saturday, except inside the house. The house leaked about 2 gallons of water into the basement. Not much, but lots more than the zero that the basement usually gets. The garage also had an amazing amount of water in it. It often floods. But it had never flooded this bad before. 1000 sq. ft. with 1/2 inch of water. About 300 gallons of water.

Sunday I bought a wet/dry vacuum and sucked up all the water that hadn't drained or dried.

Monday morning it stormed again. I got about 45 gallons up this time.

It's been sunny since. So really I'm not mad. I mostly want to document it somewhere.

By the seat of your pants

This web site shows how to tie a webbing harness. Seems like a pretty good one.
http://brmrg.med.virginia.edu/knots/seat.html

high Definition TV;CVS

So I've had high definition since the middle of Feburary. It blows me away. I love watching old episodes of "Battlestar Galactica". I though the ship scenes were amazing in normal definition. But high definition just blows it away. It's amazing what having 4 times the area will do to an image. You can tell the difference between the cylon and fleet ships anywhere on the screen at any perspective. I also love watching sporting events in high def. You can see the faces of the crowd. You can see the boards in the floors or the rocks on the track or any number of other details. It's making me much more interested in sports on TV.

Recently I've been learning CVS. It too is pretty groovy. It took a bit to figure out how to start a new project, but after that everything has been pretty cool. I have been working with checkout, update, and commit for some time. But I've never tried to make a new project and I've never tried to make my own server. I'm pretty happy with the initial results.