While driving to work, I put on the album Black Market by Weather Report. I remember as a kid throwing ridiculous temper tantrums to get my Dad to turn off this music. Coincidentally, Jaco Pastorius was born in Norristown, PA, a town or so over from where I eventually went to high school. I also [...]

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You really haven’t lived until you have had one of Beta’s scones …

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I’ve really enjoyed watching the farmers bale hay. It’s not that I haven’t seen this before (I lived on a sheep farm in Western Pennsylvania for part of my childhood). What I haven’t seen before is the sense of community and cooperation. The rain has been fairly constant here over the Summer and dry weather [...]

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When we originally got the cats from our friends in Clare, Ciaran said they were trained assassins and the carnage has been pretty regular this past week. The capper however, was this young hawk. The angle makes the cat look a bit bigger, but trust me, this was a big bird. Look at those claws!

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Well, the good news is that I’ve learned a lot about making nice bootable backups of my MACs. The bad news is that I didn’t have one in place for my work laptop (which really had the most current data of all my machines). It’s not going to happen again and Gabe and Lisa have [...]

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