James Chamberlin

The U.S. is covered with a big weather system this week. For me, it’s resulted in a fair amount of snow. I’d guestimate our accumulation to be about 5 inches so far and we’ve got another day to go, so I’m guessing that amount will be almost doubled when all is said and done. The […]

There’s not much going on these days. The weather is about the most interesting subject to discuss, strangely enough. After a couple of days near 50 degrees, we’ve dipped back to 30 or below. This means any precipitation is going to be in the form of snow. Although I love snow, I’m not a fan […]

My workout at the gym was pretty exhausting this morning. Although I was only there for 50-55 minutes, I managed to wear myself out with those exercises I mentioned earlier. My arms are tired, my legs are tired, and when I left the gym, my clothes looked like they were just taken out of the […]

OK, so the monitor didn’t die, but it might just as well have. I can’t turn the darn thing off now. The power button on the front doesn’t seem to work properly anymore and the monitor is stuck on. I unplugged the monitor, but I’m not exactly loving this idea as an everyday way of […]

Now that that one PC of mine has been cleaned out, it’s running much cooler. The fan above the heatsink has yet to spin up while doing something strenuous. In the past, anything that made the CPU work at 50% for more than a few seconds would cause the fan to spin up. It’s because […]

One of the things, actually, the number one thing I hate about life is maintenance. I hate having to maintain everything. It doesn’t matter what it is. Something is always breaking down or getting dirty, requiring attention. Maintaining electronics is one of those things that I’m pretty good with, but blowing the dust out of […]

Every now and again I fall off the wagon, so to speak. I’m not as regular with my exercising as I once was and when I do exercise, I almost end up regretting it from the pain instilled in my body afterwards. Case in point… my feet. They’re aching tonight after a four-mile trek on […]

I don’t have any pics ready just quite yet, but the garden is doing well this year. Everything is growing well with the exception of the broccoli, which I neglected to protect early on. The birds got to it before I could cover it with netting. They won’t have such luck next year. I’ll take […]

It’s hard to imagine that weather I would expect in the middle of summer has already arrived. 90 degree temperatures with 80+% humidity is something I’d expect to only read about in the south right about now. This is just terrible to live in. You southerners can take back your weather whenever you like. I […]

The big family garden has been in for a few weeks now and the weeds have overtaken just about everything. That was until this morning when they were all dispatched thanks to a heavy duty steel rake that I like to use. The weeds don’t stand a chance against that beast of a rake. It’s […]