I’ve written on Oppo previously a bit about some of our IT challenges in a state university library, like up until late last year working on a Dell SFF pc rocking an Intel Q6400 and 4GB of DDR2 ram (and only because I had scavenged sticks of RAM from machines in vacant offices), and finally getting a “new” pc in the…

With today being a rare treat of *not* being hotter-than-balls in Southern NM, I went for an evening nature walk in Soledad Canyon, but was stopped by this on the way up. Normally I wouldn’t give much notice to an old van for sale, but a front differential caught my eye as I drove past. There was no choice but to stop…

After 3 years and just shy of 50k, the Mustang in the household got the first money spent on it outside of Svending supplies, oil and oil/air/cabin filters. I gave it a wash this morning and then loaded the wheels up for a trip to discount.

Because it’s raining outside, Shelby is unhappy (drugs have kicked in, so is no longer terrified) and sticking to my side while I Oppo this morning. I’ve been telling them for years they’re not old enough to drive.

The Playseat Evolution has been assembled and tested. Overall verdict: very good.

To go with taking the week off work for my birthday (yesterday), UPS delivered my present today.

I haven’t done that write up yet of the library drinking club’s camping trip in the San Mateo mountains, but here’s another tidbit from the weekend. On Saturday we took a walk (well, more like a fairly serious hike bushing wacking 2,000ft in elevation up the canyon our campsite was in to the peak of the mountain) to…

I took the library drinking club out camping this weekend to the San Mateo mountains in Western NM. A complete write up will be coming, but for now have some mediocre pictures of the abandoned trucks just before entering the forest boundary. This is out on the San Agustin plain, where the Very Large Array is at about…

After yesterday’s post, I’ve got a few final thoughts. First, I’m surprised to learn how many cars still, for some reason, have a pedal operated parking brake, and that people even like them. I look at them as a problem that I thought everyone has solved long ago. That said, if you’ve got have one, I do prefer one…

My F-150 has gone to the dealership for a couple of recalls. Nothing big, just adding shields to the door latch assembly inside the door and trimming insulation around the seat belt pretentioners. I don’t really care much about either recall, but this will get Ford to stop sending me letters. I’ve got mixed feelings…

We continued weeding the collection of an Operation Paperclip scientist that was donated to us many years ago. Everything here is weeded material we’re not keeping in the collection but that caught my eye nonetheless. Some of this will go that great big recycling bin in the sky, and some of it will go to a space m…

One of the dogs is about to be disappointed that I’m going to be now. I maintain a strict one doggo limit to sleeping on the bed with me.

While this is a little outside the work with political papers and rare books that I usually do for the university, I pitched in today to help weed an archival collection in the regional history manuscript portion of our department. These are some weeded documents that I thought Oppo might find interesting. Somewhat…

The NM MVD misplaced a decimal on the registration renewal for the racecar trailer. I think I’ll pass on the two-year option for $390 and stick with the one-year option for $20.50

Now that I’m done with living roomlopnik, I spent Sunday having Mustang day. It got an interior detail, oil change and service and an wash/wax/detail. It wasn’t anything fancy, just a clay bar and coat of wax. It was in need of some attention, and it never turns down some fresh Mobil One and new filters. I didn’t…

This past weekend I wrapped up updating the 1990 out of my living room/dining room area. White walls, pink accents, frilly details, bad carpet, shiny brass hardware, mismatched outlet and switch covers, it was all there for the fixing. For those that have been following my houselopnik posts, since we bought this house…

A month or two ago a friend and I took down three 40-50ish foot dead trees that were near the house. Chainsaws are fun, and it was successful. All three trees came down without falling on either the house, a wall or a person. I gave my buddy most of the wood from the trunks too big to burn without splitting, and I’ve…

I guess this is one way to crowd fund. Don’t see many Corpus Chrsiti area code numbers in Las Cruces.

I’m a few days late writing this up, but I took a long weekend and got the boat going for the season and my parent’s pool up and running in Albuquerque. Normally, the boat goes in the water in early/mid March, but it has been a colder than normal spring in NM and I’ve been busy updating the 1990 out of my…

The dogs met the new Rumba. They’re not sure about it. The head of household security kept trying to corner it.