Blowout

A critical failure in the power infrastructure completely took down the datacenter we share with the police, despite their massive battery array and a diesel generator. Fixed now, but it meant many hours of work late into the evening, with emergency UPS strung out all over the place.

Idolatry Again

...And another standing in a long line that stretched around the corner out of sight. I'm guessing this was the line to go sing and the other was just for spectators or some such.

Idolatry

American Idol is holding auditions in Nashville today, at the Municipal Colosseum right next door to my office. There was one crowd up on top....

Splintering Off

Well Elder Scrolls Online lasted a pretty long time, but eventually all games must fade. So, back to the games on my list that have been neglected in the interim. First up, Splinter Cell: Blacklist.

More Park

The new baseball stadium again.

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Amped Up

Here it is all set up. Yes I still have the pink guitar. Mari also got me a tweed looking cord to match the style of the Orange. It might seem strange but this is the first time I've been able to hear myself play without the backing music of Rocksmith, just the pure sound of my plucking coming out of the amp and it's been a cool experience.

Modern Vintage

Love Orange's kind of vintage look and color scheme (though you can also get them in plain, boring black if you want. Who would?)

Aging Oranges

My slow progress on the guitar continues and I have been wanting to do some things outside of the XBox and Rocksmith. So my sweet wife got me this combo amp for my birthday! I've always liked the Orange brand, more than a little influenced by one of my favorite bands (Clutch) using them.

Sun Dog

Tara loves being outside and sleeping in the sun.

Birthday Girl

Mari gets another year younger today!

Raise The Roof

They were fast and it looks fantastic, a subtle two tone black and grey. Really happy to have found a solid, reliable contractor. Between Harley Dalton Construction and Lee Company it's nice to know we have "go-to" people for anything on the house.

Shingle Shedding

More shingles from the roof. It looks really bad now, but the good news is we've settled on a roofer. The same people who did such a good job on our front door, and he is giving us a great price because he knows about our problems with State Farm.

Harry Payton

Who wouldn't want to play Quidditch?

Echoing E.T.

Lonnie and Payton came up for the long 4th of July weekend, so we went to see a movie Mari and I would normally avoid. It was better than expected though.

WOTM

July.

Among The Starbucks

This is the ISSpresso, created by Italian coffee maker Lavazza and scheduled to be taken up to the ISS in November along with the first female Italian astronaut. For the first time astronauts will be able to have fresh brewed coffee and espresso. I like stuff like this not just because it's an interesting engineering challenge, but because the more "normal" space travel gets maybe the more excited people will be about pursuing it.