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I took two weeks off from work to build a shed for my equipment. I bought posts 14′, 13′ and 12′ tall that I planned to put 3′ deep.  Three posts in each row makes nine holes. Once I had the area cleared and the posts painted, I started to dig the holes. I got the first two done one afternoon and I was amazed how hard the ground was.

Thanks to a reader for passing this along. This has got to be the result of global warming:

Scientists have grown a tree from what may be the oldest seed ever germinated.

A new report says security at the state capitol is lax. Lax to the point that some people got in showing identity with a picture of animals on them. From the channel 4 report.....

The testers often used fake identification badges, sometimes with the pictures of animals to review the safeguards.

Security is lax at state buildings reports Marc Stewart:

It’s good to be back home. I did finally get the recording stuff going and it was so fun to play those tunes. Ben’s record is amazing and it’s an honor to be a part of it.

With Normandy Reservoir just four feet away from reaching its summer pool level, area officials realize that the current level is as high as the lake will reach this year. But plans are in the works...

Last night my in-laws took my kids and Brian‘s kids down the street to a hotel to get high on all the partially hydrogenated oil, Red #40 and high fructose corn syrup they could bring over on the plane from Texas.  And to swim.

I heard on NPR this morning that some guy (in Alabama no less) has invented a cloud-making machine that can create clouds in the shape of corporate logos. They’re about four feet high, so they’re not huge but still…

My 2005 Dodge Magnum has a crapload of computer power. But it doesn’t know about Daylight Saving Time.

Last week, I asked for help concerning frequent false alarms on my smoke detector. I believe I have the problem solved, and though nobody guessed exactly right, there was a theme in several of the suggestions that ultimately helped a great deal: location, location, location.