Here is a link to the Scobert Gardens Interest Group.

I don’t now about everyone else, but I say “ORE-inge”. So let’s just say binge, tinge, hinge, singe, fringe, syringe, twinge, infringe, etc. all rhyme with orange.
Done.

I went out and bought some fireworks this year, late in the afternoon on the fourth of July. I got a good deal on some boxes of fireworks, and then I splurged on this big-ass canister called “Sky Show”.
Now, in order to be legal in Oregon the fireworks are required to suck. And after […]

After setting up a better automatic drip irrigation system in the front of the house, I got fed up with that awful laurel nonsense on the left side of the house. Cheryl and I agree that we can do a lot better. The “how” of that hasn’t really been settled yet, exactly, but we’re pretty […]

Here’s the latest from Oregon Community Credit Union: The Chief Operating Officer has written me back with a very pleasant, yet unsatisfying, response to my problems and questions. Here is a brief and totally unfair summary of what I wrote and how he responds:
Me: Your junk mail was labeled deceptively.
COO: Whoops. But it was really […]

After a discussion with Hans a week ago, I decided that DSL service from Qwest would serve me better than Comcast’s cable internet. It was a fairly easy calculation, really. Download rates for my DSL roughly equal the maximum sustained rate I ever observed with cable. (~450 kB/s) And the upload rates for my […]

The very agreeable and helpful Branch Manager at Oregon Community Credit Union has responded to my e-mail:

Dear Mr. Quady,
Thank you for taking the time to send me an email with your concerns. I appreciate your feedback and your honesty. I have decided to share your email with our Executive Team so they will […]

I received a voicemail from the Branch Manager with whom I spoke last week. It’s down at the end of the post, with her name edited out, if you care to hear it. The gist of it was: OCCU got my name removed from Hartford Insurance’s mailing list, and would you still like to talk […]

I have been banking with one of the local credit unions for twelve years or so. It used to be called U-Lane-O, which was a stupid and funky name, but who cares? It was a cool little local organization, and it wasn’t a bank. There were never any surprises on your statement; the fee structures […]

Cheryl and I have around a TB of storage right now. Sounds like vast tracts of land, right?
Between the uncompressed video coming off of our Leica digicam (today’s dump of pics and vids from the camera was 0.7 GB) and the movies that appear to flood like a torrent of bits onto our computer… […]