In February, our home project was to find a dining room table. We didn’t accomplish that although we did spend a lot of time visiting furniture stores and looking around. We just haven’t found one that we like and are ok with price wise. We also installed a programmable thermostat, which upon thinking, is probably BS when it comes to energy savings (maybe I’ll blog my rationale later). We did improve our energy savings by all 9 of our kitchen lights to LEDs (thank you Chinese manufacturing).
February this year had a cold streak. The first half of the month was a stretch of sub -20°C temperatures in the morning. There was some snow too. Hopefully that will be it for Winter since Wiarton Willie was able to climb out of his hole, in -20°C weather, through 10cm of snow and not see his shadow.
The biggest news event of this month was the mass protest in Egypt which finally resulted in President Mubarak resigning from his dictatorship. Then it was Libya and Iran’s turn, but that hasn’t been revolved yet. In other news, we have a new computer overload in Watson as IBM’s research project beat up on two dominant Jeopardy champions.
In my spare time this month, I made a lot of progress on Condado, my San Juan clone, planned our spring break trip, and messed around with my Android tablet and Kindle.
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