February 15, 2009: Trip to Cold Spring

The sun is out and it was a beautiful morning.  Dominica was feeling restless today and we decided that it would be a great day to go out for a drive with Liesl and Oreo and to see if it would be possible to find some model railroading supplies so that we could do some …

February 14, 2009: Liesl’s First Valentine’s Day

Today is Liesl’s very first St. Valentine’s day and also her cousin Madeline’s ninth birthday.  I am blessed with the rare situation that I do not need to work at all today.  We got a chance to sleep in a little bit this morning which is awesome for a change. The weather is awesome today.  …

February 13, 2009: The Date is 1234567890

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! …

February 12, 2009: And the week continues…

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 …

February 11, 2009: Starting to Recover

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.  …