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Inspection of the new home, inspection of the old home, documents here, documents there, snail mail for one of them, email for the other one, a fax to the left, a fax to the right - I can’t believe how much stuff I have to deal with lately. I knew the schedule would be a bit tight, but what I’m experiencing right now is just way over my head. Things would be a lot less complicated if I could do everything from my computer. However, there are still lots of businesses who rely on the printed word, with a real signature on it. A fax? I don’t even remember the last time I sent a fax instead of a scanned PDF document …

Luckily this is just the tail-end of the divorce and at the end of all of this is a new life where all this crap is just a bad memory. Trying to hang in there and not losing my mind … it’s hard, but I will survive.

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I’ve been researching photovoltaic systems for the last few weeks and just today stumbled over the excellent New Mexico Coalition for Clean Affordable Energy site. If you are at all interested to install a solar-heating or photovoltaic system, then hop on over there. I like especially that the information is targeted to NM residents. Their Go Solar Guide (pdf) is an excellent 10-page document that visits every angle of a solar-system installation.

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Canon’s Virtual Lens Plant shows you in detail how a EF500mm F4L IS USM lens is constructed. Very interesting.

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8am Sunday morning - right outside my office.

Changing suits

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After all the uproar about the new application icons for Adobe’s Creative Suite 3, it looks like people are warming up to the new pictographs. tuaw.com reports about a “John” who has taken them to the next level. He created (or lifted) Adobe-CS3-style icons for every single app on his system. The dock looks quite funny when this is applied.

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A crow was responsible for the traffic mess this morning. One poor, little cop was trying to control traffic at the intersection of St. Francis and Cordova, because the traffic lights were out. It usually takes me about 40 mins to drop Pia off at school and return back home - today it was an hour. Rest in peace little crow …

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Print it out and keep in the glove compartment - you never know when you may need it: nature.com: How to survive in a black hole (via Der Spiegel). They are also working on a special version for Santa Fe at the moment: How to survive in a pot hole …

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(click on the image to load the article that has
a link to the full-res version from grooveking.com)

Above is a link to a large image that shows how your tax-dollars were spent in 2004. I suspect the current situation is way more heavy-weight on the left hand side …

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It looks like it is actually happening: about a week ago we received an offer on our house that we could not reject. I was in San Jose when our agent called and told me about the offer. I returned from CA last Friday and then spent the whole weekend with our agent Liz trying to find a new place. The search continued over the last few evenings and I believe I’ve seen almost everything in my price-range on the market in the areas I like.
Last night I made a decision to place an offer on one of the properties. We’ll be working on that today and I keep my fingers crossed that it all will work out.
The closing on our home is supposed to happen in the 2nd week of June, which means that I’ll have a few busy weeks ahead of me …

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