A friend recently bought some ginger beer that he decided he hated. He passed the remainder to us and we decided we hated it too. What to do with the remainder? Vanessa used it in combination with several other things to marinate some beef. Not bad!
Ah, finally a doughnut place on the east side of Albuquerque. Donut Mart recently opened up on Indian School and Juan Tabo. The doughnuts are light and tasty…not to mention cheaper (and closer) than Dunkin Doughnuts. I heartily endorse them doughnuts. Try the Boston Cream!
If you see something in Facebook involving Feed Share, avoid it. You’ll accidentally spam all your friends if you click on it. I’ve received a couple of these spams…and any company that would do that might do anything with the email addresses of your friends.
Vanessa is feeling the crowding of doing home school with 2 kids around. Her computer desk is in the living room, which probably isn’t too convenient. (Mine is in our closet.) So, she has bigger house fever. Thus, we begin the long process of preparing the house to sell. I think we’d be trading location for size. We’re at a pretty sweet location near the mountains right now. We’d possibly be moving into the sea of houses on the west side of Albuquerque. If you look at Google maps west of the river, it’s just a sea of brown houses.
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We must have some kinda city ordinance that declares brown as the official city color or something. Anyway, we begin to clean in a way we never have before. We’re pulling out sharp metal objects to clean up encrusted plumbing and so on.
Ethan and Avram and I went hiking in El Mal Pais Saturday. It was a 4 hour hike along a cliff that overlooks a sea of volcanic black rock.
It’s the New Mexico version of a lake! Pretty cool to see. At the end of the trail is a good view of La Ventana Arch.
Avram has a screw in his foot and my knees start hurting on long hikes. So, although we kept a fast pace, we were moving like C3PO and R2D2 at the very end. I guess that would make Ethan Chewbacca.
If your motherboard goes out and you have Windows 7 OEM (Windows that comes with a new computer) you’d have to buy Windows again. Of course, they’re trying to get people to buy the more expensive non-OEM version. LAN parties be gettin’ expensive…between buying full versions of OSes and individual copies of games for each computer…it’s almost impossible for an individual to do these days. I hope Ubuntu gaming takes off some day.
Need to do a quick photoshop or drawing on a computer that has nothing installed? No need to resort to Microsoft Paint. Try pixlr editor. Just go to the website and start editing the image. Nice and straightforward. (Requires Flash though.)
Google Chrome recently added extensions, making it usable. Chrome is a web browser that’s supposed to be speedy with Google apps, which I use a lot. But I wouldn’t use a web browser without adblock. Now it’s here. Think I’ll try it out for a few days.
At the Windows command prompt, type systeminfo to see your PC’s stats. Handy for troubleshooting.
