Sweet

This Christmas while shopping, I stumbled across the Lifesaver multi pack called the Sweet Story Book. My sister and I used to get them every Christmas. I noticed there were many varieties, but I made sure to choose the traditional hard candy ones.

At gift exchange, my sister handed me a familiar package, I grabbed the one I had wrapped for her. We opened them simultaneously. We both chose the Hard Candy Christmas.

... On the go, responding via
my Galaxy Tab3

Thin Clients: Tinycore

Thin Clients: Tinycore:

"This is a generic description of how to set up a Tiny Core based web server. It has been updated (May 2013) to match my current setup of Tiny Core 4.7.6 running on a Wyse S10 with 1GB Flash and 512MB of RAM. Although the previous version was still running perfectly I decided to switch to using a Wyse S10 as it consumes ~6W power when active and idles at ~4W."

'via Blog this'

source "Thin Clients"

PuTTy

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Dakota City

Yesterday and today was the Harvest Moon Festival at Dakota City Heritage Village. This blogger started volunteering at the townsight located adjacent to the Fairgrounds in Farmington MN for the past month or so. Today we were grinding coffee in their authentic General Store. Yesterday we made rope at the fire barn. This festival is one of just a few events open to the public. If children complete all tasks, they are admitted free to the Christmas program. Running this store today was a bit of a challenge, but very capable of process. This blogger may choose to "adopt" the general store for future times. We'll see

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Kevin via Smart phone

RK's Logging Camp

In 2012, reminiscing about the summer of love, I named my camp, Camp Haight.
This past spring it was a temporary lumber camp/
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Cyclothemia

About a year ago, a psychologist diagnosed me with cyclothemic disorder. It is similar to Bi polar but longer cycles and thinner extremes.

I have been following my mood swings, and I seem to be in a "low". But I've noticed an upturn so I think Sunday was the trough and I'm back on the ups.

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Kevin via Smart phone

Update. Forever new definition of.

I had been posting stuff like this at "Posterous", forever means until we change our mind.

#Twitterfail

I thought I would update you on what's going on in my life. I mean that the purpose of blogs. a few weeks back I started working as a substitute paraprofessional educator at the shocker P [Shakopee] public schools. I should note I'm using voice type on my Android device. So I will bracket any type of changes I make. I probably wouldn't but I really liked shocker P public schools.

I have helped children of all ages from kindergarden through senior year I like it all I've been at five schools work nearly every day I take a day off a week just for me to regroup. I would consider this a career. I am still unsure if I want to be in front of a class room per se but I really enjoy helping kids learn. I'm not sure if they'll be assignments this summer enough to keep me busy I have many other plans two week from my summer other than working including working on a boat, working on a project float and building a campsite. that's all for now more later chow [ciao].

Sphere of Seven

I'm obsessing about the sphere again. A long while ago, I was reading an old alchemical text. There was an illustration of a unique style of globe shape cage. It was made of 7 great circles. I think it was a map of the heavens - ie 7th heaven.  With a bit of time and effort, I figured out how to make one.  I have yet to construct one, but I know how.

Today I was looking at flat pak furniture and housing. These are large projects that work not unlike those snap apart wooden dinosaur models.

So now, I am fighting the urge to make a small scale cardboard model of my 7sphere. The full size would be made out of mdf panels which will be two panels thick, offsetting the seam by one half each arc. Without giving away my design, I think each of the 7 great circles will have an obvious and similar number of segments, each layer rotated one half way round the circle, intersections to be calculated. It is a good thing I received ribbons for my geometry grades.

The purpose of  writing this was to get my brain solving the problem. - It happened. This work is closely related to Buckminster Fuller's Bamboo Geodesic. If that means anything to anyone.
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For more info

1. A mathematician's view of the significance of 7
2. Forty two Flat Pak furniture and house designs
3. Free Spirit Spheres
4. Circle and sphere calculator
5. Means nothing to you?

Fire

I cannot say enough about fire. I arrived in camp pretty late Saturday night, fully expecting to fire up my vintage 425 camp stove and finish the pot of spaghetti I brought along for first night.
Pump pump times 50 and no pressure. So cheese sandwiches.  The next morning I went to my back up plan. Grilling. I grilled hot dogs for breakfast but never managed a good boil for either my coffee or the spaghetti. Back up number two was my bottle stove with fuel tabs. Boils water in a jiffy with sterno, but the fuel tabs fizzled. 
Yesterday after kayaking and swimming at my aunt's nearby lake home, I mentioned my gas pressure problem. She and my uncle lent me some 3 in 1 oil. Apparently the pump seal dries out. Well considering the stove was my other uncle's and was stored nearly 20 years I figured it was likely. Last night I had my spaghetti dinner and this morning i have my coffee.
Fire rocks. I understand what all those cavemen were so excited about.
-Kevin Fillips

Abandoned log house loft

http://instagr.am/p/Kkv9WiGSb9/

tested in the brain

Last week, in a switch, I took aptitude, skill, dexterity, memory, IQ, pyschological  screenings and more.

This is all for my reboot of my career. While my cardiologist is not willing to release me to work, after my valve surgery, she'll consider it.

I am in a vocational rehabilitation program through Social Security and the State of Minnesota.  That's why all the tests.  It was fascinating to see how completely unsuited I was for some of the skills, as well as how I was the "fasted the tester had ever seen" in others. Proof that for this world to work, it takes all types.

One of the tests was a vocabulary test. I had answers for every word but one, the final one.

What I remember seeing was: PILLIATE

In this test, no context or pronunciation was offered.

I focused on the word "pill" and the perceived action of ate.

When I got home, I mentioned the word to my dad. He knew of the pileated woodpecker. I was certain that was not the spelling.

It became an obsession of mine, as outlined in my tumblr.