Scott Alan Miller :: A Life Online
UNIX Time is recorded in seconds since midnight, January 1, 1970 – UTC. This date is considered to be the beginning of the computer epoch or, more appropriately, the UNIX epoch (love live UNIX!) At 23:31:30 UTC (that is 11:31 and 30 seconds on London time without daylight savings) the official UNIX date is 01234567890! …
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My new Atlas N Scale Genesee & Wyoming switcher, road number 45, arrived today. I got it on eBay and got a great deal on it. I collect G&W model railroad items. Hopefully someday (soon) I will be able to have a small model railroad in the basement on which I can run them. First …
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Not much sleep for me last night. Got to bed a bit after six and did not fall asleep all that quickly. Then a somewhat restless night and up again at nine thirty and straight down to the office to work. I did weigh in this morning and I have lost 3.3lbs since yesterday morning. …
I didn’t realize it when I woke up this morning but today was destined to be one of those horribly long and awful days that you just can’t imagine how stressful they can be until they happen. I woke up rather on the early side but ended up not actually getting out of bed for …
I worked from home today so I was able to emerge from the basement periodically throughout the day to visit with dad, Dominica, Liesl and Oreo although, for the most part, I was just stuck hiding down in the basement all by myself. It can be a lonely existance sometimes. Dad had been thinking that …
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