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Oven Progress

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Put down the oven floor of fire bricks on a bed of sand, which makes it easier to get them even and level.

Sunday, May 2, 2010

Built the form for the arch of bricks that makes up the oven door, and built the arch, using clay/sand mix for mortar.

Sunday, May 9, 2010

Had a real break-away and built the beehive shaped "sand-castle" that is the form for the dome of the oven and then went ahead and built the dome.

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

Pulled the form out of the oven doorway and cleaned the sand out from inside. And the dome, for a wonder, didn't fall down. Even though the clay is nowhere near dried out yet, it is strong enough to hold it's shape.

Friday, May 14, 2010

This evening we lit the first fire in the oven, just to help dry out the inside. It burned well, without too much smoke.
Also plastered over some of the cracks that are forming as the mud of the dome dries. We'll see how this works. At any rate, the dome appears to be in no danger of falling apart.

Saturday, May 15, 2010

Lit the second fire in the oven this evening and kept it burning for over an hour, with even less smoke this time.
The inside is really starting to dry out now and as a result the temperatures were getting up pretty good, 400 degree F. at the bottom of the walls and close to 800 degrees F. on the ceiling of the dome.

April 10

I also wanted to mention that I was reading a preview for Crysis 2. Something was mention in the preview that has made me download the first game. Nevermind that PC Gamer gave it a 98%(It shares that rating with 2 games in all of PC Gamers history).

What was mentioned actually made me say, "Damn, I bet I could get Dad to play this game," to Katelyn.

So here is the big deal.

The guy writing this story is and I quote, "A bonafide sicene fiction writer." The guy writing the story for Crysis 2 is Richard Morgan. Yes, the Richard Morgan. Maybe this will be the first FPS with a good story line since...well ever. Your computer will play the shit of it, haha.

April 10

So, we're back from Toronto. Drive up was awesome, Katelyn drove to get practice for when she goes to see Owl City as there is no way in hell that I'm going to that concert. Some douche in a truck almost killed us but Katelyn's superior driving skills saved our lives.

The Hotel was awesome! Really nice staff, super classy and they brought a mini fridge into our room at our request.

The Pickle Barrel Grand was terrible. Absolutely disgusting food. Katelyn got a burger that neither of us liked. Didn't taste, smell or feel like beef. Certified Angus=fail I guess... I got chicken fingers and fries and they weren't even good. Juciy chicken strips are gross. The appetizers, Mozzarella sticks and Sweet Potato Fries, were delicious though.

The Show: The 1st Openers, Pyramid Theorem, were fine. They realised they weren't great singers and most of their songs were mostly instrumental. Great for a 1st opener.

Powerglove was up next. I saw Powerglove play a headliner show on Thursday with the band. And they still kicked fucking ass. Unbelievable great show and the Merch Guy gave me a free keychain when I bought a shirt as we had met the band on Thursday and he recognised me! Awesome stuff. On Thursday I also got one of the inflatable swords they throw to the crowd just before they play their version of Mortal Kombat (they cover video game and cartoon music) and got Half the Band to sign it!

Mutiny Within put on a great show. Awesome stage presence and the Singer was all over the place coming out to the crowd and even crowd surfing at one point. After he surfed he gave me the point and nod as at one point I was the only person holding him up as apparently the rest of the audience was fucking retard and didn't understand what to do when the singer yelled, "Catch Me Toronto." Unfortunately the sound guy did not give them a good mix. Neither the lead guitar nor Vocals came through clearly. Upon Youtube their music is okay... but they put on one hell of a show.

Sonata Arctica (the Headliner) was interesting. They frontloaded the set with a bunch of the slow/rock songs from the newer albums. Unfortunately this is what most of the aformentioned retarded crowd loved. Also unfortunately these stupid kids don't have any mosh etiquette. This combined with Katelyn's recent Workplace injury had us move back from our coveted against the barrier position (which we had been at since just before Powerglove started their set). They picked up the set with some of the faster songs and just less than the last half of the set was full of Katelyn and my favourite songs by them. However, 2 dudes pretty much ruined it for everybody around them. If you can't handle your liquour don't drink in public. And learn how to fucking mosh people...Fuck.

So the show was good, but it wasn't great. It seemed like Sonata was out of energy and just went out and played the show because it was their job.

Back at the hotel was showered the sweat and smoke off. I cannot even begin to describe how comfortable the King size bed was. Even more the Pillows. Sweet Jesus, My neck didn't even hurt. After 2 straight nights of headbanging my neck didn't hurt. Plus we orded pizza to the room at 1:15 and TV was free! The only down size was king size beds are too large! We both work up before the alarm we set (they actually had the same alarm clock in the room that we have in our bedroom) packed up and checked out!.

I drove home and it was a nice, uneventful drive. Only had to apply excess brakes at one point as somebody thought he had enough time to make a left turn against the traffic going 100KM/H (or I was going 100KM/H most people where going 130+). Just under 2 hours which is pretty good.

March 18, 2010

Today is the first day this year that our yard is completley free of snow. And it is the earliest spring in memory.

And I am finally typing this from my new Computer. (Irv speaking)

I can't believe how fast this thing is. Windows 7 has some new things to learn, but overall seems to be superior to XP

January 29, 2010

So I'm finally typing this from my new Computer

It's Finally up and working. The original Ram didn't work for some reason, so I've got to send it back. Had to order from Newegg.com to get 100% guaranteed compatiable ram. But it was considerably cheaper so I got 8 gigs.

Final Specs:

Working like a dream so far. Windows 7 takes a little bit to get used to and I think some of the changes are stupid (mainly in the start menu) but set to "Windows classic" theme it's not that much different in looks. Runs like a beast and boots up in under 20 seconds, which makes me happy. The Draconian firewall things is useful to. Might be annoying to some (Yes, I do want to install that program I just told you to install) but if it actually is circumvented by virus/spyware it will be useful. Plus Windows 7 seems to block bad drivers, that will fuck up the computer, which is awesome. Especially when the bad drivers is copy protection for Games I downloaded. That amused me greatly.

As for how come 8 gigs works Dad: It's only Core I7 900 or higher than does the 3 gig per channel thing. Core I5 (which I went with as you'll notice) or Core I7 800 series is 2 gig per channel.

On a Completely different note:

The band just find a singer. She (yeah, believe it or not) came out to audition on Thursday and blew me away. Sang the covers damn near perfectly on her first listen through and by the end of the night was singing along fine without the music playing in the background. That's fucking impressive.

5 minutes before December 8th

Apparently we're up to #2 on google searches for "Rose Coloured Glasses". Good for us.

early December, 2009

I found my big jack knife. We were sure it got lost outside while we were pick the wild grapes, but it was actually sitting on one of the paper shelves downstairs where I had been using it to open a package. Helps if you look where things actually are...
Anyway, while the blade is in fine shape the handle is getting pretty chewed up, so the one I mentioned in the gift registry would still be a good gift.
--Irv

November 14, 2009

There hadn't been a post in a while so I thought I would make one: I just got a 1990s Ibanez S540 LTD in silver/gray. The Silver/gray ones were pretty rare and the 1987-1992 are considered the "Golden age" for Saber (Which is what the S stands for) guitar by Ibanez. Apparently the new ones are fat hogs compared to the old ones. The equivalent guitar would cost me over $2000 (that's with my 20% discount. And %20 may now sound like much but %20 of several thousand is a lot) wheras I snagged this for $500+shipping. This was the guys #1 S. I won't go into the whole forum thing and explain how he isn't bullshitting me into buying a crappy guitar but S-man(The guy's name on Jemsite [which is a site dedicated to Epic Ibanez guitar and Steve Vai's Jem {hence the name} in particular) has posted numerous pictures of his "#1 S" in various different threads up to 5 years before he tried to sell this guy. He required me to say my experience with guitar as he didn't want this mojo filled guitar going to a shitty home. Plus the back tremolo cover is signed by Joe Satriani and cover in 3M clear automotive film so I don't have to worry about it coming off with play. That's right. Over 75% off and signed by Joe Satriani. That's the kind of deal you don't pass up. Everybody else needs to update this shit more. Family wiki people lets make it a Family wiki in more than just name.

August 30, 2009

I finally got tired of this wiki hanging up all the time. What was causing it is is "Total Counter", the page visit counter. So I shut it down -- nice to know how many visits we are getting, but not worth the trouble.
--Irv

I Thought this might interest Micheal...

http://pc.ign.com/articles/100/1002164p1.html

June 30, 2009

I just got hired to teach guitar at the KSMF. $600 for the week. August 3-7! Class of 7-10 kids. Awesome.

Easter

We'll be coming home Thursday night (It's our 4 year anniversary believe it or not). I have a question for Michael and for some reason everytime I send him an e-mail I get a, "Failure to deliver," e-mail from Yahoo.

Warmachine has just released "Field test" rules for it's new edition (Mark 2). I'm reading over them and I was wondering if you would like to have some gaming over the 5ish days we will be home? I'm also planning on bringin Zombies and throwing weapons but I don't think we have enough room to throw them at the parents.

March 26, 2009

  • Michael down to sunny Florida to hang out at the beach with Shay.

January 12, 2009

  • Shay got accepted to the Nursing Program at Georgian College in Owen Sound.!!!

January 6, 2009

  • Michael & Shay are engaged.

No Beliefs!!!

I came across this interesting site and I didn't see it in either you "pages" or "Links" page so I'm posting it here. I'd swear I remember seeing it before, it is possible that even you showed it to me but just in case: Take that Jesus!

No I hadn't actually seen that one before. Good find, Dan.
Always remember, "belief is the wound that knowledge heals." (by Ursula K. Leguin, in "The Telling")
Irv Mills December 06, 2008, at 07:02 AM EST

That's an awesome quote say I!

Coolness!!!

I couldn't remember the hyperlink to the site so I googled "Rose Coloured Glasses Wiki" and this was the 4th link!!! I think that's pretty fucking cool! We're famous!

This is Epic!!!

Impeach Bush!

June 28, 2007 -- Charlie has been adopted!

Charlie, our new foster dog, was adopted today by some nice people from our neighbourhood here in Kincardine.

I want your puppy!!!

June 16, 2007 -- A new foster dog!

We weren't really planning on fostering any more dogs, since the last few were pretty hard on the cats.
But Kathi from Adoptapet Pet Rescue emailed us this week about a 9 week old puppy in the pound in Walkerton. She couldn't find anyone else to take him, so we agreed.

Charlie is an Australian shepherd and he is a real sweetie. As you can see below, he and Rumour get along very well so far.

Piper is her usual regally aloof self. And Charlie hasn't been bothering the cats at all.

A Frog has taken up residence in our pond! (Sometime in the spring of 2007)

He is quite a singer too... I guess he is hoping to attract some female company. Good luck froggy!

Jokes on Us, the Snow Came Back -- April 8, 2007

There was a big snowstorm a the start of Easter Weekend, and this was the result--not funny!

All the snow is gone! March 26, 2007

All the snow is gone form our lot.
Last year it was March 28.

New photo gallery, Adriene's orchids

New photos -- Dan and Katelyn all dressed up to go to Scott and Ashley's wedding last June.

Thursday, December 28, 2006 -- Scamp has been adopted!

By a nice couple from Scarbourough. He went home with them today.
Dec. 30: we had an email to say that Scamp is settling in well.

Wednesday, December 20, 2006 -- Our wiki has been hacked!

A couple of times today some one hacked into our wiki and defaced the main page. Relatively harmless, and easy to recover from, but who needs it. So now to edit pages you need a password. Just give me a call or and email and I will gladly share it with you. --Irv

Tuesday, November 7, 2006 -- A new Foster Dog

This is Scamp, a Australian shepherd mix (maybe with Border Collie???) who is around a year old.
We foster dogs for Adopt-a-pet/Pet Rescue, a privately operated, non-profit animal rescue organization based in Lucknow, Ontario.

Saturday, November 4, 2006

Jo-ann's birthday party, more details and a photo gallery soon.

Friday, October 13, 2006

Irv's lucky day! And today it is snowing in Kincardine, too.

Wow! I hope it doesn't snow up this way, though I am sure it will. I just hope everyone makes it here alright. This sudden change in in dryness has had it's effects on me. I had three nosebleeds yesterday, and one already today!

October 12, 2006 -- A CRAZY OCCURANCE!

It is snowing! I was actually caught in a blizzard. I didn't know what was going on! But one thing is for sure...I am glad we brought our winter coats home!

September 27, 2006 -- Lulu has been adopted!

She has gone to live with a nice young lady in London.

New Photo Galleries (September 2006)

Photos of Dan and Katelyn's new apartment in London
Dan's First Showcase

Lake Huron Sunsets

Canada Day Fireworks 2006

New Foster Dogs

We foster dogs for Adopt-a-pet/Pet Rescue, a privately operated, non-profit animal rescue organization based in Lucknow, Ontario.

Lulu

Lulu is a female chocolate lab who came form the dog pound in Mount Forest. We got her on Tuesday, July 25. She is about a year and a half old and still very much a pup. Things have been a bit of a circus around here, but she is starting to settle down pretty well after three days.

Danny

Danny is a Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retriever and Border Collie mix.
Danny was a very quiet, gentle and friendly dog, but a real Houdini who would often find a way to escape in order to follow us when we went out, or to visit other dogs in the neighbourhood. Very easy to catch, though.
We got him on Saturday July 1 and he was adopted on Saturday July 22 by a nice family from Guelph.

Rumour

Rumour is a Siberian Husky mix. We got him on October 6, 2005 and offically adopted him on June 23 this year.
We are now going to a training course with him at On Golden Paws in Goderich.
It is going very well and a lot of problems that we thought could never be fixed are clearing up nicely.

As you can see, Rumour gets along well with the foster dogs!

Around the house, June 15, 2006

Another new photo gallery...

New photo gallery, Alicia and Dan's Wedding

Alicia is my (Irv's) niece, my sister Lorl's oldest daughter.
She got married on May 6, in Cornwall. Carolynn and I went and had a great time, except for one little mishap (see the next news item, below).

Carolynn broke her foot!

While being escorted down the aisle to her seat at Alica's wedding, Carolynn slipped and went over on her right foot. She iced it between the wedding and the reception and danced quite a bit (well, maybe not as much as usual for Carolynn). We drove home on Sunday and on Monday morning she finally agreed that maybe it was time to go to the hospital. Her right foot turned out to be broken, at the base of the fifth metatarsal (the long bone that leads to your little toe). Since then she has been in an aircast with orders to keep her weight off it. Today (May 23) she finally saw our own family doctor who reviewed the xray and says that everything is lined up right and it is OK to start feathering some weight onto the foot. Another 4 weeks before she can get right of the cast, though.

Around the House, March 30, 2006

Four photos altogether, scroll down to see them all...


Not quite the end of March and all the snow is gone!

The Fish Ponds

The Bamboo Grove -- very little winter kill this year.

Ryan's "Broke Back Boat" (that's our clothes line just to the left of center)

Congratulations Dan!

Dan has been accepted for the Music Industry Arts program at Fanshawe College next fall.
This is fantastic news, as it allows him to continue with his life as planned.


The Beast in His Natural Environment

This photo was taken by Val Young, our neighbour on the north side,
sometime in mid-February. She was standing on her back deck looking at Rumour,
while he was standing on our back deck, looking at her.
As you can see, we have had a lot of snow this month.
Irv Mills February 26, 2006, at 11:33 AM EST

Rumor is our current foster dog and he comes from Adopt-a-pet/Pet Rescue, a privately operated, non-profit animal shelter based in Lucknow, Ontario. He is available for adoption.
Irv Mills March 06, 2006, at 01:22 PM EST
Note: we adopted Rumour ourselves on June 23, 2006!

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