Just made a run in to town to get some propane for the shop heater, hit the PO and grab some pork for the potluck tomorrow. Just put over 10 pounds of pork butt in the oven with my own home made rub…in about 8 hours it will be ready to “pull”. We can take it to Tori’s Work potluck tomorrow. Today I will be doing more work in the shop, got the over head cabinet stained yesterday for the guy in Denver, (I’m trading for a granite slab for the cabin). I’ll also do some more oiling on the doors and trim for a client in Rollinsville. Just as I was heading up the last hill to the house a pretty good sized Coyote hopped onto the road in front of me, and then headed up the side of the hill. This was the first time I have seen one this close to the house. He also was the biggest one I have seen yet….he was bigger than Maybelle by a couple inches…maybe 60 pounds. I wish I had the camera in the truck It would have tough to get a shot…but worth the try. Since I didn’t get one , here is one I found online.
Tori and I have been making some progress on getting the house ready for the holidays. The tree is up, about half of the girls presents are wrapped, and the guest room it transitioning back to its role as sleeping quarters, from its normal role as our shipping and receiving dept. The weather has turned for the nicer side of freezing, and it is a pleasure to feel temps 40 to 50 degrees warmer than last week.
I bought some aluminum attache cases this morning on E-bay. These will be the start to the Solar powered “Laptop Stations” I will soon be building. I started a wood case a about a month ago, but decided it was bit heavy and bulky..its not the fist time I have changed my design mid way through a project. I think the Aluminum case will add a bit of “tech” class to the project and make them way more user friendly. My upgraded laptop is due from Fed Ex today, this one will have a slightly bigger screen (10.1 from 8.9) twice the RAM and twice the main drive…I went with a SSD flash drive for more reliability…My old one is for sale …$260 with case…any takers? its only two weeks old.
I need to finish up the covers for the DVDs we are shipping out to family and friends…so long for now.
Tempting, but I’m keeping my Asus. I’ve used the original 7″ Asus EEE (proabably a very similar keyboard to your 9″ HP mini) and I gotta say the upgraded size on the 10″ is very, very welcomed. I can now touch type relatively easily.
Grant,
I’m writing this on the little Mini still. Turns out the 10″ one had some problems with the SSD, still under warranty so I shipped it out the other day. Hopefully it won’t take too lang to get back, I love the portability of these. I just got a new wireless mouse, boy does that make a difference. Those buttons on the sides of the trackpad are hard to use.
The one thing that really made the Asus stand out (other than brand loyalty) was the multi touch pad. As far as I know, it’s the only non-mac to have it. Considering I run linux to start off with, I get pretty much all of the benifits, with much less cost.