From an 80° day in February (and temperatures in the 70’s just a week ago), we now have…snow! Yup, it’s currently snowing (near white-out blowing snow) in Princeton. This has got to be one of the craziest years for weather in some time.
This moment of weather musing brought to you by the Steve’s-not-dead-just-resting blog department. As you were…
Well, I really wanted to post entries last weekend, during the gig, but the place we were at had only spotty cellular signal. Oh, well. We had an amazing weekend: we were happy with the way the music went (a couple of minor glitches, but hey, that’s live music, right?), the speaker was great, a bunch of kids were really impacted by the whole weekend, the location was beautiful, and we had a blast. What more could you want?
Oh, yeah, my new keyboard worked wonderfully. More on that next.
Back in April, Michelle and I were in Amsterdam (and other parts of the Netherlands) for 10 days (mostly for a conference Michelle was attending, but I have family there so it was also part vacation). Back in August, I was at the O’Reilly Open Source Conference in Portland, and I had a blast.
I really miss Amsterdam – it was probably the first city I thought I could feel at home living in (not a city person), but on top of that, the Euro version of OSCON just started, and it’s being held in Amsterdam…
Really wish I was there right now…
Over the summer, our pool developed a tear in the liner (fortunately, above the waterline), and that meant it was time to replace it. Not a cheap endevour, but necessary, and besides, there was a hard-metal stain in the shallow end that we inherited when we bought the house that I won’t be sorry to see gone. Anyway, the company we hired to do the work set up the pump yesterday to pump all 19,000 gallons of water out into the sewer system, and now that the work’s done, we’re busy dumping another 19,000 gallons back into the pool. I wish there had been a better way…
OK, you’re probably not going to believe me, but I’ll tell you anyway: we actually had a positive experience at the New Jersey Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).