The BEginning of the End
Hi, I’m Leonard Case,
Lead Developer for STX
and until recently I was a
Senior Software Architect
for The Omni Group in
Seattle, WA
music i write with
Hush Little Baby
Brahms Lullaby
Sweet Little Baby
People places things
Trey enters our family
Aug 24, 2006
International Beauty Show in NY
May 1, 2006
Home
Sweet Home
Sept 16, 2005
Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Ch-Ch-Ch-Changes
A lot has happened since the last time I wrote but the biggest was probably the losing of one foster son and the gaining of another.
My wife and I have been trying to have children for quite a while with many ups and downs but no success. Finally we decided to become foster parents with the hope of adopting one or more of the children we would foster.
Back in August of 2006 we finally had our first long-term placement. Trey was born four weeks premature and had some other issues that kept
Sunday, December 31, 2006
A hunting we will go
After the last adventure, I didn’t do much with the car except get it into the garage--which took a lot of work clearing out room for the car. I also tried to do some testing of the wiring to see what was working or not, but I wasn’t sure how to do it safely. So I joined the yahoo C-Car group and asked for advice.
So on Friday, I set up a light, I jacked up the back of the car (using the differential as suggested). Then I tried the gas--once again slow speed does nothing but the car works in
Sunday, December 17, 2006
Its worse than that...
... he’s dead Jim.
So after charging up the batteries all night my wife, Renee, and I decided to take it for a test run down to the coffee shop. I left the car charging overnight--it didn’t shut off on it’s own so either there are some problems with the batteries, or the charger needs to be calibrated.
It doesn’t seem like I have low speed so the initial start is kind of a jerk. In fact, the whole start seemed quite jerky so we stopped at the end of the driveway. Renee wasn’t sure about this
Tuesday, December 12, 2006
My Car is Here!
It was supposed to come yesterday, but there was a big wind storm and the guy who sold me the car is an electrician on an island and had to run around starting generators for all the people who lost power.
But today it finally came. It was riding on the back of a little trailer, with only a couple inches of clearance front and back, and no way to open the doors on the sides, so we had to pull it out and hope we could handle the weight on the slope of the trailer tailgate. Luckily it is a
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Got Cable?
My cable modem arrived today!
Since my current internet connection is partly paid by my former company, I used to have an incentive to stay with DSL. But my new company reimburses $50/month instead of paying directly, so I am switching over to Comcast High-Speed Internet.
At first I was worried about upload speeds since I thought they capped out at 384kbps and my DSL is currently 1.5Mb down / 768kb up and I already have trouble uploading new builds of STX to the network. But then I saw that
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