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My Birthday July 18, 2009
We did go to SC and get some fireworks 1 2 for my birthday, and to pick up milk from the farm yesterday. I have my birthday cheesecake in the oven. (yes, I am making my own birthday cake, beats having one from a store …) Frank had me open my presents already. A bunch…
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Fireworks 2009
On July 4th of this year (2009) we had our 2nd Annual Family Fireworks show, but previous years tradition really started it with fountains only, back a few years more. This year we increased what we did, hand picking each item ourselves, not getting any “pre packaged” things. We go to Phantom Fireworks off of…
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Wii Power Cord Freezer Trick
Our Wii system was working fine since I last wrote about it not working: hyperthinking.us/weblog/2009/03/02/wii-power-none-then-yes/ until I discovered it wouldn’t turn on after I moved some things around yesterday. It either wasn’t working beforehand, since we did have a sudden house power down then on again Power situation on Sunday, or that didn’t affect it…
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Wii power – none – then yes!
We had a lot of rain the past few days, and then snow, 5″, yesterday (Sunday, March 1, 2009) and during the snow storm on Sunday the power actually went out a few times, just for a couple of seconds, and a flicker or two here and there. All worked fine with our electronics, they…
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Astronomy
I got something new last week. A Celestron PowerSeeker 127 EQ telescope. We haven’t done much with it yet, as it’s been Full moon and waning from there, but still too bright, or too overcast to see much. We did see the moon right after rising (Feb. 11th 2009 between 9 & 10pm) just looking…