Ma and Pa's Blog

It’s been many years (35? 38?) since we owned just one car, but after due consideration, we decided it was time to downsize our fleet.  The Taurus (the AuntHelenMobile) was just sold to a lovely lady from several blocks away, who is thrilled to have my white baby and will take good care of her.

So:  one car again.   Full circle.

Ma’s window boxes are looking great.

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1. Updated http://hickeyhoo.net . This looks about the same as it did before, but I rebuilt it using Drupal. Drupal is an opensource content management application that does alot of the organizational grunt work. It’s a learning process for me, and I’m just getting started. Thought I’d mention it because the site is a good road map to our various family sites. Nobody really cares about Drupal.

2. I came across UNR Ubuntu distribution customized for netbook computers (UNR = Ubuntu Netbook Remix). I’m using it now, and I like it. It is really fast running on a full notebook, and the user interface is very attractive and intuitive. The distribution installs from a bootable, 1GB thumb drive, and you can run (like a live CD) without installing it on the hard drive. My installation is on a 2.5GB partition. The small partition size provides minimal user storage, but it gives me a true netbook (minimal resource) experience.

Time to resume the yard work. 1 more hour today working under my 3 hour rule — anything is possible with 3 hours effort per day / more effort is allowed only if you really enjoy what you’re doing.

I don’t go to too many movies:  there just aren’t many that sound interesting enough to shell out the money to watch in the theater, and, even when the movie DOES sound intriguing, I’m usually bitterly disappointed.    A case in point:  my excitement about the latest Hitchiker’s Guide to the Galaxy a couple years ago.   (I think we can all agree that THAT was one dog of a movie whose directors, producers and actors should have been turned over to  the Vogons for appropriate punishment.)  But then I heard today that  Julie and Julia will be coming out this summer:  a movie about Julia Child–my idol!–and the blogger who made every single recipe in Julia’s “Mastering the Art of French Cooking” bible.   And the best part?  Meryl Streep is cast as Julia Child!  Woohoo!  I am ridiculously happy that the movie is being made–I’ve loved Julia Child for 40 years!  I can’t wait to see it!