Move along. :[

We bought the housing knowing about a small leak in the basement. During heavy rains, water likes to find it way through the cracks in our stone foundation and seep into the basement.

Luckly (I guess) it was nice enough to leak as close to our floor drain as possible. Easy enough to just mop right into the drain.

Our realtor and home inspector suggested regrading the ground near that corner of the house to see if that would help any. But after checking out the situation one rainy night (our first night in the house, in fact), I decided to go a different route.

From what I could tell, it looked more like a problem with a poorly placed downspout instead of a landscaping issue. Sure, the area would still benefit from a regrade, but I’m little and don’t own a shovel yet.

So I headed out to our local HomeDepot, picked up 4 10ft sections of downspouts, a couple elbows, strapped it all to the roof of my dying VW Golf, and went to town. (I got the crazy idea from our neighbors, who have a similar setup running from the back of their house to the front).

A couple days ago it rained, not very hard, but for most of the night.

So far, no more leaky basement.

work.
pack.
work.
quakecon!
work.
new house!

then work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, vacation, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, work, house work, etc…

So far, Tiger on an iBook G3/700 (640MB) is just about on par with 10.3.9.

Dashboard seems cool and maybe I’ll even come up with some fancy widgets of my own.

Spotlight also seems interesting, but I never really search my computer for junk so I dunno how useful it’ll be for me.

I’m currently using Safari and playing with it’s RSS reader and am pretty pleased with it. It seems slower than FireFox was on 10.3.9, but continued usage will tell.

update: Windows Media Player 9 has problems with either the 10.4.0 upgrade or the 10.4.1 upgrade. In either case, I believe it is solved by just deleting your existing Prefs files (Spotlight: 1, me: 0). The one I ended up deleteing was in /Users/me/Library/Preferences (and I just rm -rf Windows* in there). Now, after successfully launching WMP, Spotlight says that the new prefs file lives in the /Applications/Windows Media Player folder.

I wish it were a new house, but that’s still a wait till Aug. 18. Welcome to the new, yet probably still infrequently updated blog.

old site content here.

Here are some images:

This is a test of the non-emergency broadcast system.
Had we already have closed on a house, we would not be spending out time writing about in on this blog.

This is only a test.