Category Archives: DG

Market Crash

Posted on March 12, 2020 by kimerer_brian

DG has been watching the Market crash and is all worried and bummed out about it. “Relax”, I told him. “It’s not all that bad. It comes back. It always has.” But he was still upset. “Well, just turn the … Continue reading →

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Daylight Saving Time

Posted on March 8, 2020 by kimerer_brian

It is Daylight Saving Time again. So last night I went around moving all the clocks forward an hour. That was when I discovered that our Daniel Pratt clock had stopped ticking. I tried to get it going again, but … Continue reading →

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Birdwatching

Posted on February 28, 2020 by kimerer_brian

Now that the new chickadee house is up, DG has decided to take up bird watching. So he dragged out his big, serious bird watching binoculars. I said to him, “DG, it’s only 20 feet away! You don’t need those.” … Continue reading →

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Coffee

Posted on February 16, 2020 by kimerer_brian

Now that we are in a cold snap (Old Man Winter has arrived!), DG decided to stay in and sit down with a mug of nice, steamy coffee. “DG”, I said, “are you aware that when you do that you … Continue reading →

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Rain

Posted on February 11, 2020 by kimerer_brian

DG is sick of all this rain. He really wanted to build a snowman before the crocuses bloom. I told him that he could blame it on the Augernaut* You see, in that very first snow storm in early December, … Continue reading →

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Calculator

Posted on January 24, 2020 by kimerer_brian

Continuing on with our ancient computer theme, we went digging through the Computer Museum again and found another machine that we can use to calculate the comparison of our hit rate to the hit rate of The Google. That is … Continue reading →

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Suanpan

Posted on January 14, 2020 by kimerer_brian

DG went rummaging through our Computer Museum again and came up with this old style Chinese abacus. This is a 2/5 Chinese abacus, called a “suanpan” 算盘. The 2/5 means that it has 2 beads on the top and 5 … Continue reading →

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Spring!

Posted on January 12, 2020 by kimerer_brian

How about these January temperatures? DG thinks that spring has arrived, and is taking full advantage of it. I’m not sure how to break it to him that he is about to be smitten by Old Man Winter.

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Stapler

Posted on January 5, 2020 by kimerer_brian

One of my Christmas presents this year was this really cool stapler. It’s a genuine Swingline stapler. DG took a liking to my stapler and ran off with it. Quite honestly, I am a tad afraid to go and take … Continue reading →

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HBD DG

Posted on January 1, 2020 by kimerer_brian

Today is DG’s 50th birthday. Yay! So we made a cake and put all 50 candles on it. DG is not happy about being 50 years old. Actually, he is quite grumpy about it. DG: I don’t want to be … Continue reading →

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