Day 445 – Biggie?

By jspeer
Published: June 21, 2006
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Hours of Daylight – 15:29
Is today a biggie?
Today is the solstice, but according to the naval observatory the days are already getting shorter. Lost a whole minute we have.
Today is also my last day of employment at Idaho Power. I think the word for the day will be "ambivalent." I will miss my daily time [...]

Day 443 – Total Scam

By jspeer
Published: June 19, 2006
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Hours of Daylight – 15:30
That the health care system in this country is completly and utterly broken is not news, but the many and varied ways it’s broken continues to amaze and depress me. A big problem can be found in the interface between humans and computers. The problem is coding. See, when you go [...]

Day 442 – Cat Hair

By jspeer
Published: June 18, 2006
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Hours of Daylight – 15:29
So i found this thing at the pet store… it’s a smaller version of the loopy metal thing used to strip hair from horses. It does a fantastic job of removing the undercoat from cats. Isa and Mora are clearly cold-weather cats… the amount of downy underfur i ripped out of [...]

Day 438 – Catchup

By jspeer
Published: June 14, 2006
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Hours of Daylight – 15:28
These are the long days of summer in Boise. But fortunately we’re getting loads of rain. It’s official: i prefer overcast/rainy/moody weather over constant sunshine. I would rather live in a place that’s predominantly cloudy/rainy with breaks of sunshine than one that is mostly sunny with the odd day of rain [...]