I wish I had a set of
Perpendicular blinders,
A way to block the future
And focus on the present.
My mind wanders off
Into the future,
While my body lingers here
In the present.
Fear, elation or other emotions
Might await me,
But right now I feel them
Whether real or not.
I know I can’t see the future,
Only the now,
But my mind tries to look
Ahead, always.
~ JR 2012
March 24th, 2012 Mark Phillips will be performing at the New Sharon Congregational Church UCC. Mark is a local music teacher as well as guitar instructor. He is married with children and lives in New Sharon, ME. Mark plays an excellent mix of old and new folk, rock, pop and country tunes on his acoustic guitar.
This concert is the 3rd in the “6 Months of Music” Concert Series. The concert will have free admission, though donations are accepted.
The Lissa Schneckenburger concert was a big success. We had about 65 people show up and everyone had a great time. Great music, great people, great venue, who could ask for more?
New Sharon Congregational Church UCC continues the “6 Months of Music” concert series with the Mt. Blue Voices in February. The Voices will be in New Sharon at the Congregational Church on Saturday February 11 at 7pm. The concert will be free but donations will be accepted with the proceeds split between the Voices and the Church.
The Mt. Blue Voices will be live in concert, Feb. 11th at 7pm in New Sharon at the Congregational Church!
There are only 3 trucks that fit what I want in a truck for 2012. The Chevrolet Colorado WT, the Nissan Frontier SV V6 and the Toyota Tacoma Access Cab. My specs are minimal. I need a truck that has a bed to haul wood etc. It needs to be able to seat 4 people. It needs 4wd. It needs to be a manual transmission and it needs to get 20mpg highway or better. My 2000 Ford Ranger meets all these qualifications and then some, but it is getting older and in 5-10 years I will probably need to replace it. Since I don’t normally buy new vehicles, I’ll be looking at what is being sold now in 5 – 10 years on the used vehicle lots.
It’s sad that there is only one American truck out there that meets my specs. Here’s hoping Ford get’s their head out of their butts and builds a truck with a proper transmission.
CurrentTemp v3.0 has now been released. The biggest change is the RSS feed source. It now pulls data from Weather.com instead of WeatherBug.com (which was giving me inaccurate results).
I have updated FtoCK and released it as version 2.1. This release fixed some minor display issues in Safari as well as trimming some code for faster load times.
I would also like to mention the release of a new applet I made, CurrentTemp. CurrentTemp is a simple applet formed around a CURL based RSS parsing function. Simply put in your zipcode and it will tell you your current outside temperature in °F, °C and °K. The data is provided by WeatherBug.com’s RSS feed. Being CURL based, you can also input your zipcode without using the form field (useful so you can bookmark the applet and have it open to your zipcode automatically). To do this, simply type in “?zip=12345″ after the rest of the URL for CurrentTemp, where “12345″ is your zipcode. Enjoy!
Just got done busting heads dealing with a vendor that claimed they didn’t owe us anything, but I knew better and proved it with 6 month old records from when the original transaction happened. Now they are fixing the issue AND issued an apology. It feels good.
Merry Christmas from the Norridgewock Raymond Family!
Jen Libby has designed an awesome poster to help promote the Lissa Schneckenburger concert which kicks off our 6 Months of Music concert series at the church, thanks Jen!
Lissa Schneckenburger in concert, January 21, 2012 at New Sharon Congregational Church UCC.
