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Warning - High Voltage Inside - For Your Safety Keep Out There was just something about this image - and these words - that I had to take a picture of it. For your safety keep out - I guess saying high voltage isn't enough these days.

We had first night of Passover last night. I spent most of Friday evening and *all* of Saturday assisting cooking and cleaning and setting up for our major Passover celebration - our Seder. My wife worked most of this time - and a lot for days before too. Passover is a major spring cleaning and more. We had a lot of guests - over 30. Not the most we've had, but pretty close. My son invited a bunch of teachers. I invited a friend from Denver. My wife had some associates from her work and we had a few people from our synagogue too. We do a fun, short version of the Seder - the telling of the story of the Exodous from Egypt. My wife added a play to the Seder, to give some body to the story. I think it went over well. Keith's Pictures: 2005-04-24 We do the Seder in a simulated tent. Cloth strung along the ceiling. We sit on the floor and go around reading parts of the story. Today I cleaned up the tent, and we returned the two tables and chairs we borrowe...

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Objects in Mirror are Closer Than They Appear I always find things in the right-hand mirror look larger to me than they look in the other mirrors. It might have something to do with the first 'car' I had was a van. It had a small, wide-angle mirror - that made things look really small. But no blind spots! :)

This past weekend I was in California, for a cousin's wedding. I took off Friday and Monday from work. My eldest son came along for the adventure. Seeing as I live in Colorado now, a land-locked state, it was imperative that I stick my toes in the ocean. :) Of course, whenever I get near the sand, I almost always have to make a sand castle. This time was no exception - I made a dibble sand castle. The others in our group - most from the east coast: NJ & MA, said the water was too cold to put you foot in. Well, I didn't find it that cold - I went up to my knees - and if I wasn't wearing shorts, I might have go in a bit more. Weekend in CA - Waves rolling Weekend in CA - Dribble Sand Castle - Seagulls watching Weekend in CA - View through sand castle spires Weekend in CA - Closeup on dribble sand castle Weekend in CA - Bird flying over the Beach Weekend in CA - Waves over Sand Castle Weekend in CA - Dribble Sand Castle - Water...

The weekend before last, I had a chance to attend a Robot competition held by the regional IEEE group. The competition was organized by the head of the Denver Robot Club. Interestingly enough, he mentioned this competition a number of months ago at a really small meeting of the Denver Robot Club. He asked if anyone had any idea. I held back a little bit, giving others a chance to speak their minds. Then I brought up an idea I had toyed with for a while - a robot warehouse. I wondered if I could do it with Lego Mindstorms. But I added a twist to my suggestion - I suggested that the robots should get orders about what work it should do. Well it turns out they used my idea! So I had to go see how it worked! At first they were going to do shelves too - but it was decided that was a bit too hard. Just as well - it turned out to be a pretty tough problem without the shelves. They used standard radio-modems for the dispatch system. The course was 8 rooms - 4 from-rooms, and 4 to-rooms, ...

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I decided to be a tiny bit creative for dinner tonight. I started with the base elbow noodles. I was debating cheese or tomato sauce or even a noodle salad for dinner. I wished I had some ground turkey to work with, but I didn't. So I started thinking about the frozen chicken breasts I will resort to. But I didn't want to do the same old chicken pieces. Then I decided to slice up the chicken in the food processor. First I tried the shreader. I was not happy with the speed or result. So I went with the slicer. Better, but it wasn't working that quickly. I realized that the chicken was just too frozen. So a quick minute in the microwave, and yes - it worked much better. I cooked up the shredded chicken, but I wasn't sure what I wanted to do with it next. Gravy? I was leaning toward tomato sauce. Then it hit me - taco mix! But the kid don't like it too spicey - so I only used half the package and added some left-over tomato sauce from the fridge. I also a...

Spring skiing in Colorado. Do I need to say more? Of course I do - it's a blog! :) It was over 40 at the base. While they had a bunch of snow just a few days ago, the temperature and strong sunlight made the snow a little slushy. And for some this might have made the skiing worse. But for a guy who grew up skiing back East, it was nearly perfect. I brought along a GPS unit. Okay, so I'm really geeky. GPS, cell phone, digital camera and my camel-bak (water backpack). It was the first time I'd been skiing this year. And I haven't been all that active since I started my new job. So my muscles did not have as much endurance. I haven't been so sore since I hiked the grand canyon at 15. Snow caps driving up from Denver Contrails X over Copper Villiage Copper treeline Ski lift and sky More pictures