28-IX-2006.
The two shrubs in front of the magnolia we cut long ago, but they kept growing, because these were two trees, with strong roots, and they grew new twigs every spring. Me being mostly with nothing to do, I assigned myself the task of taking those stumps out. I did that in the evenings, when it's more or less bearable and one can breathe without resorting to gills. I took one of the old speakers for a stool, and of tools I used the small electric reciprocating saw, hammer, chisel and probably the vekšmajzl, which I don't see on the photos but I remember as being very handy for chopping the thinner roots and as a spatula. And so today, after a dozen such sessions, I took the second stump out.
The problem was thus solved for this year. The remaining problem is that the whole front half of the lawn should have been dug over and those roots taken out or chopped small, because it kept growing. I had to batch out for it, not to let it grow too much, to lop it off with the small whipper while it can do that, or else I'd have to crawl all over it and cut each stalk by hand.
Behind the post office in the area, there was a tree line of that same species, and it seems to have grown too much, so they cut it down, leaving stumps pedalj high. The next spring it was a hedge row, an incredible thicket. Each stump had sprouted at least two dozen twigs, straight and a meter tall. That monster is undestructible.
This drawing was on my desk for weeks, I think. It's something Lena made... while doing something else. Simple ballpoint pen on, dunno, someone's advertising paper.
Posted my second article on UA. Alphonse was pleased :).
Trying to build some stuff of my own, the MyNeighborhood.com, where you'd primarily get your local stuff, i.e. whatever is posted there is prioritized by its geographical proximity to you. Actually it was her idea, I just saw where she was going with that. Installed a FreeBSD into my old box (still the old Celeron board from 1999, I guess), and started looking for ways to do Ajax on the cheap, without resorting to manually registering callback functions and all of that heavy DOM. Found two magical words: hidden iframe. It was promising, but when I'd load it and try to copy its html to that of a different element, not everything was right... the image captions wouldn't wrap, for one, and some other formatting was also looking weird. Even contacted Rick Strahl in Hawaii about some of the framework stuff.
Some email with some headhunter, with my standard resume attached and
My rate is 50$/hr, telecommuting from Virginia Beach. I'm willing to be present onsite for a week or two, just as long as I can be at home at least half of the time. My last job before I became an independent consultant was with a diamond & jewelry company in New York, and in about thirty months I spent a total of about five weeks there - the rest of the time it was the intensive use of communications that won the day.
I don't charge for fixes of my own bugs, if any. Also, any time savings coming from use of tools I developed before are passed to the customer.
As far as your requirements are concerned, I've done it all except dot net. I can read the code, maybe fix a minor thing or two, but over the years I had no time to learn how things are done there. May take me a few weeks to get up to speed, if really necessary.
I'm near the phone pretty much at all times, so feel free to call me anytime up to 10PM Eastern."
On 30th, finally screwed down that metal stripe to secure the edge of the carpet where it meets the tiles in the kitchen and those in the niche where the washer is, and the bit by the front door. The regular Bleker (Black n Decker) drill was too small and couldn't drill the concrete, so I got a better one, some cheap no-name Ryobi, which has the hammering action, and it easily and neatly drilled the holes, and so one phase of fixing up the house was complete, the flooring downstairs was finished.
Mentions: Alphonse D'Alchembert, Jelena Sredljević (Lena), pedalj, UbiquAgora (UA), vekšmajzl, in serbian