• Books,  News

    A Little In The Way

    I bought a used desk a month ago and it has been sitting in my garage. I have traded my office to my wife, and the room that will become my office/study is getting new flooring. All good, except it is taking quite a bit of time. A big box store who shall remain unnamed is supplying the materials, and has so far been pretty unprofessional. Pushing delivery dates, failing to communicate, both with me and the installer, that sort of thing. Things happen, but it is getting fairly silly at this point. Hopefully, early next week the materials will be delivered, and then the install can begin. So, in…

  • Language,  News,  Software

    Christmas 2018

    Merry Christmas! Well, this will be the first post at my new home, wordsandbottles.com. I used to blog on WordPress, at sphodra.wordpress.com, but it has been a while. I’ve been wanting to get some windows hosting space where I could play with code and, well, do all kinds of fun things. I wanted the ability to blog in a space that would be completely flexible – only limited by my time and energy. So, here I am. I got webspace (thanks WinHost) for Christmas and am enjoying setting up this site. So, what’s been going on with me? During the holiday break so far, I’ve worked on a couple puzzles…