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I had run into an issue with my previous hosting company. They had taken about SSH access as a security measure. This crippled my ability to admin my sites. So, I have moved my hosting to Host Monster.

So far everything is good. It took me way to long to get my sites back up but that was my own fault. Just didn’t move fast enough.

Oh well! Now that I have them back up and can get on with this blogging thing I like to do.

Here is the Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational, which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition.

The winners are:

1. Cashtration (n.): The act of buying a house, which renders the subject financially impotent for an indefinite period of time.

2. Ignoranus: A person who’s both stupid and an asshole.

3. Intaxication: Euphoria at getting a tax refund, which lasts until you realize it was your money to start with.

4. Reintarnation: Coming back to life as a hillbilly.

5. Bozone (n.): The substance surrounding stupid people that stops bright ideas from penetrating.
The bozone layer, unfortunately, shows little sign of breaking down in the near future.

6. Foreploy: Any misrepresentation about yourself for the purpose of getting laid.

7. Giraffiti: Vandalism spray-painted very, very high.

8. Sarchasm: The gulf between the author of sarcastic wit and the person who doesn’t get it.

9. Inoculatte: To take coffee intravenously when you are running late.

10. Hipatitis: Terminal coolness.

11. Osteopornosis: A degenerate disease. (This one got extra credit.)

12. Karmageddon: It’s when everybody is sending off all these really bad vibes, and then the Earth explodes,
and it’s a serious bummer.

13. Decafalon (n.): The grueling event of getting through the day consuming only things that are good for you

14. Glibido: All talk and no action.

15. Dopeler effect: The tendency of stupid ideas to seem smarter when they come at you rapidly.

16. Arachnoleptic fit (n.): The frantic dance performed just after you’ve accidentally walked through a spider web.

17. Beelzebug (n.): Satan in the form of a mosquito, that gets into your bedroom
at three in the morning and cannot be cast out.

18. Caterpallor (n.): The color you turn after finding half a worm in the fruit you’re eating.

OK, so I have finished the staining process. Now I have to wait 8 hours before I can apply the poly coat. Here are the pics so far.

Before

Sanding complete

Staining in process

Staining complete

I have started a new project today. I am refinishing the hardwood floor I found under the carpet in my living room. I have started the sanding process. As I complete different stages I will post new photos to go along with anything I have to say about that stage.

Refinishing Floor

Sony Electronics Inc. and Waste Management Recycle America will take and recycle unwanted electronic devices at no cost next month.

The companies are inviting Austin-area residents and businesses to recycle any brand of used or outdated electronics for free from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Dec. 6 at the Travis County Exposition Center.

San Diego-based Sony and Houston-based Waste Management will donate $100 for every 1,000 pounds collected to the Capital Area Food Bank. Canned and other nonperishable foods will be taken at the recycling event.

About 82 percent of the 2.25 million tons of old televisions, cell phones and computer products generated in the last two years went in landfills, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Typically, residents and businesses must pay for their electronics to be properly recycled, according to the event’s organizers.

This is an awesome music video featuring a special free-flying Bald Eagle named ‘Challenger’
(in honor of the lost space shuttle crew) cared for by the non-profit American Eagle Foundation (AEF).
 
He’s a ‘human socialized’ bird accidentally raised by the people who rescued him – after being blown from a wild Louisiana nest in a storm as a baby in the late 1980s.   Declared ‘non-releasable’ by federal and state wildlife authorities, he was trained by the AEF to perform educational free-flight demonstrations at high profile public events.
 
He’s the first Bald Eagle in U.S. history that learned to free-fly into stadiums, arenas and ballrooms during the singing of the Star Spangled Banner. The celebrity eagle has appeared at numerous major sporting events like the World Series, Pro-Bowl, All-Star game, BCS National Championship, Fiesta Bowl and Men’s Final Four, etc. Challenger has also flown before 4 U.S. Presidents!
 
His life story is told in a children’s storybook titled ‘Challenger, America’s Favorite Eagle.’

Hi,

This Election Day, there’s more than one important vote going on. And there’s something we need you to do to get ready.

While you’re casting your ballot at your polling place on November 4,
the Federal Communications Commission will be voting the same day on
rules governing “white spaces” — the unused airwaves between broadcast
TV channels.

Last week, after months of testing, the FCC announced that white spaces
devices could operate without interfering with TV broadcasts or
wireless microphone signals.

The science speaks for itself, but that’s not going to stop the
broadcasting lobby from trying to derail the technology before the
rules are even written. Since last Friday, the National Association of
Broadcasters has been trying to stop the vote from taking place.
We can’t let that happen.

Thanks in part to your efforts, we’re less than two weeks away from a
vote that could transform the way we connect to the Internet.

We can’t let up now.

You’ve already signed our petition at www.FreeTheAirwaves.com. Now we’re in the final stretch and we need your help again.

Please forward this message to five of your friends, and ask them to sign the petition at www.FreeTheAirwaves.com.

Call your Member of Congress and let him or her know it’s time to open “white spaces” for everyone:  https://secure.freepress.net/site/Advocacy?alertId=285&pg=makeACall&autologin=true&JServSessionIdr001=rppctdj0p4.app43b

Just as Wi-Fi sparked a revolution in the way we connect to the web,
freeing the “white space” airwaves could help unleash a new wave of
technological innovation, create jobs, and boost our economy.

But it can happen only if the FCC moves forward. Encourage your friends
to sign the petition and call your Member of Congress today.

Thanks,
FreeTheAirwaves.com

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