admin May 20th, 2011
Okay a little bit more information.
This first plan I like because it does have a nice deck area 2 bedrooms and 2 baths on one level. I’ll modify it to have more of the deck covered. It’s just too hot to spend much time outside in the direct sun. Some other changes to the bathrooms, like a walk in shower with a seat, spa tub, and I’m not fond of walk in closets.
Here is a link to the floor plan
The second picture is the general idea of what I’m looking at. I used it because it’s in color and represents the typical old time country house.
The plan I like has a screened porch which is nice when the mosquitoes are out and a nice big eat in kitchen. I would expand the downstairs bath some and forget the vaulted ceilings over the living room for more room.
Country Plan
I’ll have a separate shop built maybe as large as 30 x 40 feet and a covered parking area.
admin March 25th, 2011
This where the new house is going. Look closely and you can see the black posts that mark the location. It’s mostly set to minimize the number of nice trees that have to be cut down. Otherwise it’s 50 feet from the road, 50 feet wide and 54 feet deep. Plenty of room on the left to put a carport and maybe a nice big shop building. Will see how the budget goes.
Tags: location location, new house
admin September 19th, 2010
I deleted a few posts and those that are left are marked for no comments. This is mostly due to the lack of activity on this site and the amount of spam I get. Maybe one day I’ll do something about it, but don’t hold your breath. /Fred
admin September 10th, 2009
With hurricane Fred declared I thought I’d mention it’s been about a year since Hurricane Ike and also it’s the anniversary of the Great Hurricane of 1900 that wiped out Galveston. Still today you can see the destruction from Ike along the coast. The lawyers are on TV wanting to sue the insurance companies. Even today I met a contractor from New Orleans. I asked him why he didn’t go back after Katrina, he said his family moved out here and he finds plenty of work here. So even tho you may not hear about it anymore the disaster is still on going. I suppose that’s true of most disasters. Looks like Fred will be nice. There hasn’t been much to worry about for storms this year, but we still have a few more weeks to go in the season.
Tags: ideas storms hurricanes
admin December 12th, 2008
So what does a lame remake of a lame old TV show have to do with Top Gear? Okay they both have cars in them, what else?
link is to Jalopnik.com
admin December 7th, 2008
The question about how many Linux users there are is often presented by expert type folks. It is also debated in various forums. Considering the value of such marketing statistics I did my own dubious survey. Here is my methodology…
I think I know about 200 folks directly and I sampled about 12. I’m no statistician but I think that is a margin of error of 60%! It’s not a true random survey either, over the last month I kept track of the folks I’ve talked computers with. The Linux number is high because I included myself and the one person I’ve converted.
So with those caveats, and my creative math I come up with:
16% use Vista
58% use XP
8% Apple
16% Linux
2% Other
Tags: Linux, Mepis, sidux, Windows
admin August 16th, 2008
With the world fighting wars for oil it’s amazing that all some folks want is fresh clean water.
Here are couple of links of interest, World Water Week and Sanitation is Dignity
Tags: peace, politics, water, world
admin June 22nd, 2008
I have liked small British sport cars even before I could drive. I saw this Bahama Yellow S3 at Laguna Seca probably in the seventy’s and knew someday I would have one of my own.
My brother and I went in on this Elan that was about $1500. At some point I bought him out as he wanted to get a piano. It was fun to drive even tho it would start shaking above 60 mph so it never got much use.
Along the way I got preoccupied with family and houses but I held on to the Elan even bringing it out to Texas from California.
I finally got rid of my family, (or they got rid of me), and I started to think about gettng the Elan back on the road.
The humidity really took it’s toll on the car and I was thinking of how much time it would take to restore when I found this almost identical car. Same year, just a few thousand serial numbers later.
Tags: Elan S1 S2
admin June 17th, 2008
I just got my first mp3 player a Creative Muvo T100. Simple and cheap. The only problem I have is with their web site, kind of confusing with links going in circles. All I wanted was a manual, I kept looking for a pdf download, turned out to be a Microsoft help file. I got a firmware update but it again it’s a Microsoft centric executable file. Fortunately the player works like a USB flash drive so no special software is needed. As you can see I play it thru a cassette adapter in the car.
Tags: mp3 player, music
admin May 12th, 2008
I’m pulling the engine from my 1965 Lotus Elan S2 and I can’t get the rear cross member off. Check out the picture below and let me know if this is right? My solution for now is to pull the motor out and either hope the crossmember clears even if I have to drop the exhaust, or I can get at it along the way out.
With some help from the folks at Lotus Elan dot Net I was able to find the hidden bolt and get the part removed from the gearbox. Thanks guys.
Tags: Cars, Lotus
