Not an incredible amount of progress yesterday, but enough to make me feel better. I got a few of the most critical things done, put in a full day of work, and when I got home, met with the landscaping guys to pick out the blocks that will make up the retaining wall across the front of my yard. Still working on picking out the patio blocks, but hopefully that won’t be too bad. They’re going to get the work done before Memorial Day weekend, too. Schweet.
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The rain, it’s started to feel unrelenting. But today we’re supposed to get a break, which will feel nice. The good thing about rainy weather is that colors look nicer, like the blossoms on the tree in my front yard. Strangely enough, it’s only the top of the tree that’s flowering, so I had to take pictures out of my bedroom window.
And once again, I’ve discovered that the squirrels in the back yard are pretty smart. The squirrel-proof bird-feeder cut way down on the number of times I had to refill the feeder until recently. I was wondering what trick they were using to get at the seeds, and saw a squirrel hanging upside-down from the roof of the feeder yesterday morning, so his weight wouldn’t close the little door that’s meant to keep the tree-rats out. I’m wondering if extending the roof on the bird-feeder might do the trick, or if I’m going to have to resort to more drastic measures. It’s not that I particularly hate the squirrels, but I’d much rather watch birds eating the bird-seed, and not have to refill the feeder every single day.
- Because they’re getting screwed out of royalties for songs sold on iTunes, Cheap Trick, Allman Brothers Sue Sony. Sony says to the bands that they selling the songs, not licensing them, which means a different (and much lower) royalty rate than if the songs were licensed. Hmm. And yet Sony tells me I’m just licensing the song when I buy it from them on iTunes. They’re trying to have their cake and eat it too. [boing boing]
- Yesterday the Minnesota State Senate dealt Twins a defeat, when
the Senate Taxes Committee voted unanimously Monday to give Hennepin County residents the right to vote on a sales tax to build a ballpark.
Maybe they actually remembered that people get crabby about taxation without representation. [press-patch] - It says Coburn anti-pork strategy to be front and center this week. I hope that’s the case. It sounds like he’s prepared his amendments as carefully as possible to actually have a chance of continuing to fight pork this week. [instapundit]
- A new mission from Improv Everywhere: Best Buy.
Everyone in this goddamned store is wearing a blue shirt and nobody knows a thing!
So just like any other day in Best Buy, except you can actually find someone helpful in a blue shirt. [fark!] - Callous is Guilty (with NAND gates, baby) of being an engineer, or
too lazy not to do the job right the first time.
I know that feeling. [jr]