I had a blast hacking MediaWiki tonight with my awesome book club gang: John Riedl, Dan Frankowski, Erik Jordan, and Tom Erickson.
Rumor was that Mac OS X Lion would be released tomorrow. Haven’t heard much in the last day or two. Will upgrade at home right away.
Any of you out there use Linode? I’m about to sign up and would be happy to send the referral to a friend.
Square Surprisingly Useful
A couple of months ago I got a Square credit card reader and associated Square account for my iPhone and iPad. I did it because we were (and still are) planning a garage sale and I thought it would be helpful to accept credit cards. We still haven’t had that garage sale, but I got a lot of use out of Square this week.
The B-Squad needed new softball bats. I decided to take up the fundraising effort for the B-Squad 2011 Bat Fund. One of the biggest challenges is always just getting funds. Nobody carries a checkbook and cash isn’t always on hand. I took my Square to Dusty’s and within minutes had swiped six Visa cards. It was really easy and simple.
We completed our fundraising in a week in part because of how easy Square made it.
Concrete Trucks
Today was a big day for our project. This morning a bunch of guys showed up between 6:45 and 7:00am. Two big, blue concrete trucks showed up and parked right out front. One truck had the concrete mixing, and then it was pouring it into the pumping truck.
The concrete pumped through this hose and poured into the basement for the new floor.
Tyler was digging the big trucks. I would have stood there and watched too but I had to get to work!
Bubblers Against Bottled Water
This weekend we went to the Minnesota Arboretum. It was ridiculously hot and when we got done walking around we entered the visitor center and were looking for a drink.
I love this bubbler that has specific accommodations to fill water bottles, and even keeps track of how many disposable bottles were saved. Bravo! (See Stop Drinking Bottled Water)
Sat on the “blaring fireball” (aka sun) side of the bus. Poor choice.
Still managed to ssh from the bus and made a quick vi edit with Prompt on my iPhone.
Remodel Update Week 5
This last week was short with the 4th of July holiday, but there was still some nice progress. The mudroom is now framed in and you can really see what will be. The basement got the steel reinforcement plates put in and the dirt leveled and prepared for pouring the new concrete. The original plan had the concrete getting poured this week but they got backed up on another job so that will happen at the beginning of this week.
Looking ahead we should have a floor and most likely windows in place in the basement by the end of next week. We are also hoping that we can get the air conditioning hooked up again for the main floor. We’ve been without it since the digging started and since that is done the new condenser should be able to get back in. We have our fingers crossed. It has been pretty hot lately. Luckily we still have air conditioning upstairs in the bedrooms.
We are also preparing for the project to start invading the rest of the house more. Walls will soon be getting knocked down and we’ll have to accommodate some additional disruption on the main floor.
Filtering Google Plus Notification emails
It sure didn’t take long for Google Plus to start filling my mailbox with email notifications of all sorts of actions. Luckily, its super simple to filter Google Plus notifications. Just capture any email matching…
[@plus.google.com](http://plus.google.com)
and send it to a folder.
If you use Sieve like I do, the rule to match is…
header :contains "From" [
"@plus.google.com"
]
Much better.
Tammy and I watched Cedar Rapids tonight. It was fine, but not as funny as I hoped.
