Kindle and booosks

Melissa got me a Kindle Paperwhite for a birthday Present.  I've been having bunches of fun with it.  One book I read on it was the latest Terry Brooks novel, Bloodfire Quest.  Brooks has a great fantasy universe he has constructed over the last 35 years.  However, I feel like his writing is in a small part drifting toward the Paranormal Teen Romance trend.  I've also been reading John Piper's Brothers, We Are Not Professionals, for LibraryThing Early Reviewers (among other books from the Early Reviewers programs).

Spa-sitively Excellent

We recently found a spa to adopt from Craigslist.  It was only a few years old, and in need of a good home.  It's a Bullfrog 462.  When getting a spa for an addition to the family, it's a good idea to get the electrical setup by a professional, or at least inspected.  So we had the electrical inspector come and find the insufficiencies in our work.  We got them fixed and have been enjoying it since!  We're trying out using a Silver Catalyst cleaner Nature 2 W20750 and Potassium Monopersulfate (MPS) Leisure Time LES-RENU6 instead of Chlorine or Bromine .

Goodbye bookmarks?

I've been reading more Terry Pratchett of late, Pyramids, Small Gods, and The Last Continent. I've been enjoying them, and reading some of them on the kindle app.  One of the benefits of e-readers, particularly the Amazon flavor, is that you don't need a bookmark.  The Amazon service even syncs how far you've read to their service, so you can pick up where you left off on another device.

No Soliciting Sign

     A few years back, solicitors for a local carpet cleaning company descended upon our neighborhood.  The first day I cordially declined.  Another employee came back the next day.  Two days later, a third employee arrived to sell me something, and I was a bit agitated.
     As a result, I added a "No Soliciting" sign, which has worked pretty well.  Solicitors in Meridian are required to have a license.  Ignoring the "No Soliciting" signs can jeopardize that license.  
     We recently affixed a translucent diffuser to the front window, so I had to remove the taped up sign.  Apparently the solicitors were waiting, because they started showing up again.  After dutifully adding some watchtower literature to the recycle bin, I got to work on a new "No Soliciting" sign.  Fired up the laser cutter, and presto-chango there's a new sign.

Crybaby

When our daughter first started to verbalize word parts, her cries took on a new character.  She would say little snippets of vowels "de de ble de de ble ble," that kindof sounded like a disenchanted muttering and stuttering.  It was interesting enough that I made a video of her when she first started to do it.  The video also featured her rolling onto her back.  Little did we know, that she would love the video.  One day, when she was crying, Melissa showed her the video (she likes the computer screen), and she was entranced with what the baby in the computer had to say.  Now, when she is crying, there is a decent chance that we show her the video.  She loves the video, and can totally relate to what that baby is saying and it helps calm her down.

Shelves, Workbench, Seat heaters

 I've had several small projects in the past couple months to work on.  I've put shelves in a closet, a workbench and shelves in our garage, and installed seat heaters into the FJ Cruiser.

The seat heaters was a crazy project that I will not attempt to recreate anytime in the memorable future.  Car upholstery is much more complex than I'd like it to be; requiring skills and tools that I don't desire to acquire.

Laser powered

The laser engraver/cutter is up and functional.  It hasn't had too many opportunities to burn stuff up, but I'm hoping to give it some more burn time.