Category Archives: What’s going on

Maxtor Shared Storage II bites the big one,

Or, how I recovered my data from a so called Raid 1 array device failure.
Note: this is not a very technical article, just a guy fumbling around trying to save some pictures and mp3s.
When this thing first came out I … Continue reading

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Plumbing the Shop for Air

After being in my shop for 5 years (but only using a decent compressor for 3) I have finally plumbed the shop for air a organized all those loose hoses I kept tripping over. After much reading I decided … Continue reading

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Sledding at Ahtanum Meadows

We headed over to Yakima again this weekend hoping to make it up to Treephones and some deep snow play. I guess we were just lucky last year when the road to the cabin was open all winter. … Continue reading

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300,000 miles

Well, it has happened. At 8:44 pm PDT January 3, 2008 my 1987 Toyota Land Cruiser turned 300,000 miles. While this isn’t the highest mileage vehicle out there, it is my first one to reach such a distance.
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Giving the shop a lift

I have been wanting a lift ever since we built the shop.  Now that I am getting a little more busy and doing a wide variety of repairs (and feeling old as my body creeks getting back up off the … Continue reading

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