Salt Flats.

Not a whole lot going on lately. I ground some stumps in my yard. That was a chore, but now there are no stumps. I guess that usually happens when you grind them.

Although, stump grinder is kind of a misleading name. If you have ever seen one of the monster sized grinders you can rent from Lowes or what not, it's more like a stump shredder, with what look like the knobby part of a chicken legbone all around the "cutting" wheel. Basically it pulls the stump apart.

The gout returned in my foot. Yay, it seems like any time I put any sort of strain on it, like standing, kneeling, walking around, grinding stumps, et cetera, it returns. It doesn't get me down anymore though because I know in a couple days it'll be settled down, ready to allow me 2 or 3 weeks of minimal-discomfort light activity. I am gonna weigh 500lbs soon.

I am reworking my network. My firewall PC running Windows 2000 Advanced Server that served me faithfully for 4 years without any sort of maintenance at all, served me by running in my closet without a keyboard, monitor, or mouse without complaint, finally gave up the ghost when I tried to move it.

Poor soul. Evidently, the strain was more than he could bear.

I have a new door! Yay for human technology! My old door obtained a hole, so I had to replace it. I have been sans door for several months. My new door, like my old one, will not stay open since the door frame is crooked. To counteract it, I have placed two powerful neodymium magnets I harvested from some old hard disk drives in a repulsion arrangement on the floor and door respectively. Together they act as a snap, an electrodynamic doorstop that keeps the door open and against the wall. Yay for physics! Fascinating physical phenomena right at my fingertips and I use it to prop open my gimpy door. I can also stick it to the BB in my ear.