The Feeling of Dusty Shoes
Dust from a construction project feels like an old friend who I haven't seen for a couple years. Growing up it was always around me, like a friend that comes for an unplanned visit and stays with you for three days.
Dust and I got along so well because were both victims of the person working on the project. I was only the assistant to the person making the dust. My primary job was holding the dumb end of the tape measure, conscripted into service against my will. The dust was like a peaceful tenant forcefully evicted from its' home. Maybe I was more than a victim, because it was also my job to take the broom and dispose of the dust.
Despite my limited title and responsibilities some of the lingo stuck with me and I can still tell the difference between a cat's paw, flat bar, hammer, and crow bar and I still remember if all else fails use a bigger hammer or get the chain saw.
Recently dust and I met at a friend's construction project. I forgot the joy of pulling nails and listening to the radio. There is a sense of satisfaction from having my hands busy while still maintaining the capacity to think about something other than the task before me.
LAN Party Upgrades
Time to upgrade my gaming computer. First upgrade since the initial paint and build all those years ago. The camo PC is dead, long live the camo PC!
It will be making the leap from an Athlon series AMD system with an AGP video card and DDR memory to a more modern multi-core AMD Phenom system with PCIe and DDR3 memory. The build went well except for a slight hiccup with the power supply and video card. The video card required a special 6 pin PCIe power adapter that is normally part of the power supply. Since I wasn't quiet ready to toss the power supply I found a nifty adapter on Newegg to convert two of the LP4 connections to one PCIe video card power connection.
See you at FITES.
Playing Bug Strife
A friend is hosting a Bug Strife table top miniatures game session at Dreamation 2012 and she needed some 'test subjects' to go through the game to work out the rules and game play. Game play moved along smoothly except for some deliberation over some finer points of the rules like bug stacking and allowing a single bug to carry away the entire eggplant.
My bug army advancing on the eggplant.
The bug army battlefield.
By the way, the 'test subjects' were AM, BR, LL, and me... not the bugs.
Snow Smiles
A beautiful snowfall!
Not a flake too many or a flake too less.
Cold but not bitter.
I'm continually amazed and thankful when something as simple as a light snowfall can make me feel giddy and put a smile on my face.... and my truck 
Google Has David Defined; Life, Lust, and Love
While searching for a particular bible passage about David the three suggested search terms made me briefly consider how well David's life could be summed up in just these three stories. Life, Lust, and Love. You decide which is which.