Finally, a simple guide to recreate my youth. Someone has a tutorial and kit that will allow you to make a NES controller into a USB joystick. If it works with Linux, I may have a solution to my USB joystick problems. 🙂

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The long weekend didn’t work out to be so long after all. On Friday we had an ordeal with a few sets of locks from Menards. We wanted to change the locks so we didn’t find heirs to our house still living in there, so we went to Menards and picked up a set of […]

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An unfortunate incident occurred this weekend regarding everyone’s favorite Vorpal Rabbit, Java Joe. We have given Joe full reign of the kitchen and he was happily running around there on Sunday night. We had elected to file his teeth down and play with him on the couch, which we did without too much incident. Tasha […]

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After I got home last night, I had a plan. I wanted to go to Menards, get some shelving units and some fresh locks for my house, and then head to Karate. The first part of the plan went relatively well. I called my folks to tell them that I might need help getting these […]

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Yesterday was a real treat. I took a half-day off in the afternoon to wait for the water guy and the cable guy. The water guy showed up at about 2:30 and took about ten minutes to do his thing. The cable guy, on the other hand, showed up about 3:45 and stayed for an […]

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We are moved! Last night about 10 pm we dropped the keys off to my aunt, from whom we were renting the previous place. I will continue to check for mail until it stops coming for us and that will be the last of the Hamilton Street house. Today I am taking a half-day in […]

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