I stopped in at the Auto Club today to renew the registration on my wife's car. On the way out, I stopped at the desk and asked for an Oregon road map. The clerk asked if I was planning to be in the Monday traffic jam to see the eclipse. We talked about the hotels and Amtrak sold out, no economy-class rental cars available as far away as Sacramento, etc. She said they had been getting 15 or 20 people a day stopping in to get maps and tour books. It occurred to me on the way out that I could use the wife's car since she will still be away on business Monday. It's more comfy and gets better mileage than my truck, but it's not so comfortable to sleep in. I wonder how long the lines will be at Denny's.
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In 1983, I joined SAI Technology Company (SAIT), a wholly owned subsidiary of Science Applications Incorporated (SAI). SAIT had a lot of technical and commercial success and once it was too big to qualify for small business consideration in government contracts, it was rolled into the mother company as an independent division during or soon after the reorganization of SAI to SAIC. In 1997, SAIC sold our division plus a few other pieces of the big company to Litton Data Systems. I tried to get back into SAIC itself (better benefits) and found a half-time internal consultant job (an employee without benefits, but with a salary increase instead) in 2000. For a time, I split my time between the two companies - Litton in the morning and SAIC in the afternoon. Then the project at SAIC (a pocket-size chemical weapons detector) got a boost in funding from DOD Special Ops funds, so I quit my morning job and went full-time to SAIC (besides more money, it was close enough that I could go home for lunch). About that time, Northrup Grumman bought all of Litton, so for a few weeks (I'm not sure how long) I was a half-time employee of NG. After the SAIC project was completed (2003) , I found a job at L3 Communications - a company that had been founded by splitting out parts of NG that they had acquired in mergers and wanted to divest. One of the parts of L3 was the SAIT-SAIC-LDS-NG division where I had been working post of 20 years. I worked in the same office suite, same labs, with much of the same staff, on the same projects that the division had been developing and selling before I left.
Sitting here quietly retired, I have been getting letters informing me of a class-action lawsuit by former employees against NG based on an accusation that NG improperly administered its 401(K) plan by charging administrative expenses to funds belonging to employees (I think). Today I got a letter telling me that the company has settled and I can submit a claim for part of the settlement. I think I may get a check for about 12 cents, but I guess I will have to fill out the form to find out.
Sitting here quietly retired, I have been getting letters informing me of a class-action lawsuit by former employees against NG based on an accusation that NG improperly administered its 401(K) plan by charging administrative expenses to funds belonging to employees (I think). Today I got a letter telling me that the company has settled and I can submit a claim for part of the settlement. I think I may get a check for about 12 cents, but I guess I will have to fill out the form to find out.
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Probably fake news.
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Oregon newspapers think of everything --
http://www.oregonlive.com/eclipse/2017/08/solar_eclipse_2017_85_oregon_dispensaries.html
http://www.oregonlive.com/eclipse/2017/08/solar_eclipse_2017_85_oregon_dispensaries.html
CBS Sunday Morning has an article today on Francoise Gilot, Picasso's one-time mistress, whom we sort of met the day of my second son's birth. She was married to Dr. Jonas Salk at the time, and her daughter had a baby the same day, in the same hospital, with the same Ob/Gyn, and then shared a semi-private room with my wife. When we visited the hospital the next day, I imposed on Dr. Salk, asking him to shake hands with the (20 months old at the time).
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You see that base as being stable enough? . . . and drainage is accounted for?I just finished this planter, ready for a load of potting soil.
It is lined with root barrier cloth and the floor is redwood fence boards with a gap at every pair, so it is soil tight but no not watertight. I might add some feet to the bottom midway down the span.
It's 7 feet long (sized to fit the space), 18 inches wide, and 32 inches high. It's made of redwood fence boards and rails except the top pieces which are redwood deck boards for a cleaner look. All the cuts are right angles except the 45° miters on the top (which came out almost right). Inside out of sight are two softwood 2x3's holding up the floor. It is lined with cheap root barrier fabric held in place with redwood lath strips. The only nails are in the lath strips, all the other fasteners are red-coated deck screws, 8 x 1-1/4 and 10 x 2-1/2, with star-drive top (free bit in every box). All the holes were pre-drilled, even in the lath strips - I only had one 2x4 split, and that one not badly. The top has three coats of clear polyurethane, the rest two coats of clear stain/sealer. I built two movable dividers out of remnants . There are some cutoff ends, but the only real "waste" is that I had to buy the lath strips in a bundle of 10 and only needed 3, and I ran out of the #10 screws right near the end so I bought another box.
I have enough leftovers to make mid-span legs that will look just like the corner legs - today's project. I will lay it on its side on the bags of soil so I can get at the bottom.
I have enough leftovers to make mid-span legs that will look just like the corner legs - today's project. I will lay it on its side on the bags of soil so I can get at the bottom.
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I might steal your plans to make some of my own . . . mine will be larger as I already have room to grow spices.