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Yesterday evening a thunderstorm slowly moved over the Sangre de Christo mountains in our direction. We’ve never seen anything like this since we moved to Santa Fe. It looked like a broken fluorescent light over the clouds: there was lightning everywhere and multiple flashes per second. I got the camera, put it on a tripod, set it to long-time exposure (20secs) and pointed it at the mountain. After just a few attempts I had this one in the camera:

Light show over the mountains

Soon after the photo was taken it started to rain heavily. Luckily the little one sleep through all the noise.

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Pia now knows that the tiles are a bit harder than her head. She jumped from the counter in the kitchen - head first - and tried to break one of the tiles on the floor. Tiles won. Baby won’t do it again. Colorful eye reminds baby about the mistake, but she’s fine.

Baby head against tiles

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Frisco-dog made us suffer through one of the worst gas-attacks ever yesterday evening. After some time we had enough and asked the dogs very friendly to get the hell outside. Seconds after I closed the door to the back portal, the dogs start barking and there’s a weird noise in the air.
I look in the direction of Max’s barks and sure enough, we have a rattle snake right outside our kitchen:

Rattler in the back of the house

She’s about 4-5ft, but tries to sound like a 10ft snake. Needless to say that the dogs continue to poison the air in the house while we wait for the snake to leave the back of the house.

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If you ever feel like visiting us, don’t have the time to come to New Mexico and happen to have Google Earth installed (see http://earth.google.com/), you can use this link: kahunaburger.com in Google Earth to navigate to the precise location of the kahunaburger.com server and thus our home here in Santa Fe (terrain does have to be enabled, otherwise you end up a few miles too “high”).

Thanks for the great program Google folks!

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Sometimes I feel like we’re living in a third-world country. There’s not a single month where we don’t have at least one power outage. You wake up in the morning and the coffee maker has not turned on as expected, various clocks, microwaves, ovens blink “00:00″ and computers have restarted. This is highly annoying and I believe the equipment does not like the few-second power cycles.
Last week has been extremely busy. When www.kahunaburger.com reboots, it puts several messages into it’s logs that indicate a reboot has happened. Look at the stats from the last few days:


frisco% bzcat /var/log/messages.*.bz2 | grep "kernel boot file"
Jul 4 07:29:21 frisco syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
Jun 29 00:02:56 frisco syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
Jun 29 01:01:07 frisco syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
Jun 28 21:52:10 frisco syslogd: kernel boot file is /boot/kernel/kernel
frisco%


A power outage on June 28, two on Jun 29 and another one on July 4th. Sigh …

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