Monthly Archives: August 2009

Snow Leopard broke Control and Caps Lock swapping

9/1/2009 Update: The problem turned out to be related to the wireless USB hub for Logitech’s MX Revolution (and others?) mouse. If you unplug it before you change the Modifier Keys the changes do take effect. You can then plug the Logitech USB dongle back in and everything works fine. I tried every combination of [...]

Happy Birthday Hudson!

Hudson is one year old today! It’s hard to believe a year has gone by already since he was born. He’s on the verge of walking by himself, I can feel it. And he’s developed a brutal scream that he uses just whenever, not when he’s upset or hurt, just to make noise. Havana is [...]

Comcast's Inactive DCT Lease

I got the latest Comcast bill notification email and looked at my bill and discovered a charge for $13.40 under Comcast Cable Television: The funny thing is that we don’t have Comcast Cable TV. We used to years ago, so I assume that “Inactive DCT Lease” means that we’re being charged for the inactive Digital [...]

Eric & Valerie's Going Away Party

Eric and Valerie are going to sail to France so they had their going-away party tonight at the very cool Bastille at 7:30. That’s a little late for us early-birds to have dinner so Gay and I went to Maritime Brewery’s Jolly Roger brewpub down the street for a beer and a light dinner (tiny [...]

Canned Craft Beer

A slowly-growing trend in craft beer is to package it in cans. 21st Amendment, which we visited in 2008, is one of the few that does this now and we can finally get their beers locally so Gay picked some up recently. I look forward to getting more craft beer in a can — easier [...]

It's finally raining!

I’ve missed the rain; and the green grass. I hope it rains for the next few days. We missed the first release of “Dry Fly”:http://www.dryflydistilling.com/main.php whiskey this weekend — all sold out state-wide. This is the first whiskey made in Washington since Prohibition from the first distillery in Washington since Prohibition. They will be releasing [...]

Happy Birthday, Gracelyn

We packed the kids in the car right after their midday naps and went to Newcastle, WA to Julie and Hans’ house for Gracelyn‘s 1st birthday party. On the way home I resisted the Fry’s in Renton and we went to get takeout at Buddha Ruksa in West Seattle. I’m not sure why we did [...]

Healthcare Reform

Jonathan Alter understands why healthcare reform should be stopped and we should just let the insurance companies decide who gets good healthcare: bq. Speaking of fair, it seems fair to me that cost-cutting bureaucrats at the insurance companies–not doctors–decide what’s reimbursable. After all, the insurance companies know best. They sure do! Have you ever known [...]

Dinner on Quartermaster Harbor

We went over to Reid’s father’s house in Burton for dinner with Reid, Steve and Deborah and their two kids, Sage and Pahr, Carrie and her (new, to us) husband, Joe who were visting from North Carolina.

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