Larry - Check you inbox...I sent you a message off list.
-p On 5/4/2016 2:19 PM, Larry Colen wrote:
Things have been very stressful around here, getting the house ready to host a dance camp over memorial day. Repairs, cleanup, and a lack of support. One cool thing that happened is that I scored on a very inexpensive (as in Nicole's office was getting rid of) an old Power Mac, one of the expandable types with replaceable drives and stuff. This is close to the ideal system for processing photos. Unfortunately, due to Apple's attitudes towards backward compatibility, all sorts of things won't work with it, like my thunderbolt monitor, and most PCIE USB 3 cards. As such, despite it being a windfall, it has also incurred a fair amount of cost in both money and time. On Saturday I started having issues with my septic system. There is a slight chance that it might be repaired for only a few thousand dollars, but the most probable outcome is looking like $40,000 for an engineered system. Yesterday morning, Zab was woken by a thump in the front yard. By the time she got tot he front yard, the perpetrator had driven off, but she was amused to find the Narrow Bridge sign from 50' up the road on our front stairs. Another day of repairs for me, but on some levels amusing, particularly if she wasn't the one who had to do the work. What she did not notice was the caved in driver's door on my miata, or the way the retaining wall for the driveway collapsed after the miata was pushed into it. https://www.flickr.com/photos/ellarsee/sets/72157667293488840 While talking with Ray, my contractor who does great work for a reasonable price, and who I have good working rapport with, mentioned that he is applying for a job with the county. One that would probably pay better than he is earning on his own, plus which has benefits. Over the weekend we started hearing the distinctive scrabbling of wildlife in portions of the house where we don't want wildlife.
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