Anthrocon 2016

Pittsburgh, Pa.

Might have to take a weekend road trip to Anthrocon this next summer to see 

TaniDaReal in person if she is going to be there ... 

Can't wait to find out, would love to see her artwork in person, she is my favorite Furry Artist by far.

http://www.furaffinity.net/user/tanidareal

Another From Tirrel

Gotta like his work.

TheZlorf on youtube has most all of his work in a channel.

Still Prefer Twitter

And My Own Blog

As apposed to facebook ... far less junk comes at you from Twitter.

Try it out and look me up on twitter

@Setup_Artist

Love Tirrel's Animations

And The Music He Uses

I'd love to have some of this talent.

October 21, 2015 Welcome To The Future

Or Is That ... Back To The Future

How old is that DeLorean  today?

Sno..eeew!

Second Day

That we have had this stuff in the air.

Oh ... and BTW... 

The First Snowfall Of The Season

And The Smoke Is Rolling From The New Heat System

Still too early for accumulation, with a high today of only 41 Deg F. The wood fire has felt really nice.

The Summer-long job and expense of replacing the furnace was worth it.

                                                                                                          

Now if only the remaining concrete work would finish itself.

Hmmm...

Wonder If Midori's Icon Designer

Is a Furry?

Facebook Messenger Is Back In Pidgin!

Earlier This Year ...

Facebook shut down their XMPP service and because of this, Pidgin/libpurple no longer supports Facebook Chat. For those of you who want to use Facebook Chat in Pidgin, there is now a new plugin which makes it possible once again, called purple-facebook.

Install purple-facebook in Ubuntu, Linux Mint and their derivatives

You can use its official repository. To add the repository and install the plugin, use the following commands in the Linux Terminal:

sudo sh -c "echo 'deb http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jgeboski/xUbuntu_$(lsb_release -rs)/ /' >> /etc/apt/sources.list.d/jgeboski.list"

cd /tmp && wget http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/jgeboski/xUbuntu_$(lsb_release -rs)/Release.key

sudo apt-key add - < Release.key  

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install purple-facebook

If you don't want to add the PPA, you can download the DEB from HERE (but you won'treceive any updates unless you add the repository).


Once installed, add a new account in Pidgin (Accounts > Manage Accounts > Add) and in the Protocol dropdown, select "Facebook" (important: NOT "Facebook (XMPP)") in the username field, you can enter either your email, your Facebook username or phone number associated with your Facebook account.




Only One Project Left

To Finish In The Cellar

60 or so years ago they broke through the wall into the cistern to put in a proper pump and water heater, and they never actually finished the job.

It's a pain in the butt cutting the blocks to fit into the old stone wall but it's getting there.

Repair Of Cellar Floor

FIN!

The part I thought would be the worst was actually the easiest, except for the weight of the 3 inch thick, 10 foot long 12 inch wide Popple planks (about 200 lbs each), they actually went in much easier than doing the concrete work.  Of course due to a large stone on one corner that couldn't be moved the last plank had to be coped in, even that wasn't too bad.

Now I'm ready to throw wood down for the Winter, without having to worry about the concrete getting broke up again.  The Popple planks will hold up to the pounding for a good many years.

The fold up protection for the stairs was all ready in place for a couple years, I just added the hinged extension to cover the concrete between the bottom of the stairs and the planks.

Not Your Father's Rootbeer

OMG! This stuff is awesome,

Although it is not something you would sit and drink more than a couple at a time. This tastes exactly like root-beer and you really can't taste the alcohol at all (which could be a very bad thing).

Locally I have found it in Walmart, though there are some supermarkets that get it in from time to time as well. Some areas downstate can't keep it on the shelf and are nearly selling it of the truck.It makes one hell of a root-beer float! Look it up ... Small Town Brewery

First Official Woodfire Of The Season

And For The New Furnace

Yukon-Eagle Husky I

 I can now rest a little easier knowing that my new furnace will  perform well enough to keep the house warm. Having had the oil burner running for the past couple days and now with a wood fire over the last night. All has performed as it should and couldn't get any easier.

Load the firebox, turn up the oil burner for about 3 or 4 minutes and "Presto" the wood fire takes over. No need for matches, lighters, papers, or any other type of accelerator to get the fire started.