Maine Forest Cafe

More of a reminder to self. I was presenting last night to a local S/PHR certification course as a successful student from the spring class. Lessons learned, that sort of thing. With my background, education, and experience, it became more of a mini Studying to Learn lecture. Which was good and added value to my fifteen minutes of fame. What I was reminded of was this, how my learning reading style parrallels my business/professional writing style. Three stages to completion. Outline - stop. Add main points - stop. Add clarification and support - stop. I’m glad I remembered that.

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8 PM
Well, we’ve been out for dinner, to another location beyond our usualocation. Dirty jobs are on the tv. The first segment is on leech trapping.

We voted one week ago yesterday. Our young’un voted this morning on the way into work.

Let’s see what else is going on tonight?

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8:09 pm The prime holiday catalogue was delivered today - B&H photo supply.

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The polls are closing now in Maine. Here in my enclave, McCain carried the house with three electoral votes. Wonder how that is going to translate into the town, county, district and state results.

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8:16 pm - ten views on the blog, no comments or compliments.

8:23 pm - Maine for Obama with 0% precinct reporting….

8:30 New Hampshire to Obama. McPain for John. Truth be told, and history bears this out, we toggle back and forth between the two parties at the presidential level. The pendulum swings as the ax falls.

8:33 pm On Dirty Jobs, they were frying and eating leeches.

BARF stands for Biologically Appropriate Raw Food. Betcha just learned something new.

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8:36 still no precincts reporting in maine

Senator Collins now has 3 total votes in Maine so far.

8:41 PA to the big O, guess the bitter folks left their guns and religions where?

8:45 PM Maine results, McCain 17, Obama 8. Ahh, if it will only stay that way.

8:51 PM When all is said, when all is done, despite two years of electioneering, we can be proud of our republican democracy. The absence of violence speaks volumes. Now, if we can get out of the two year running for office thing. Stay on and do your job. It’s the last year that counts, if even that much.

9:10 pm States I’ve lived in that are going to McCain - Alabama, North Dakota, & Wyoming.

9:36 Time for bed, have to get @ 5 AM, when America goes to work.

MMMMM, data! Speak to me, reveal your secrets, show me your trends.

Data points collectedaily: House electrical consumption, geothermal system consumption (has its own meter ), average temperature, heating/cooling degree days.

Data benchmarks: Last year’s monthly daily average electrical consumption and average temperature.

Calculated data: daily electrical consumption - house, geo & total, difference from last year, average, sum, cost and standardeviation.

SUMMARY
October 6 – 31, 2008
Geo KW 580
Geo Cost $57.85
Oil Equivalent $220.37 (at the contract rate)
For oil to be competitive, the price per gallon would have to be $1.22

A week from today, hosting an open house for interested parties. Most of the neighborhood, some beyond.

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As the results come in, I will be posting a series of observations as to what it means for and to me. Stay tuned.

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I keep a daily running b/log at work. The left page is the daily to do list. The right page is the daily time log, activities by time, with interruptions and distractions noted as well. The right side has been running over to the next page. This leaves a blank page in between daily entries, wasting one page daily.

Today, I am beta testing columnizing the left page. I have already measured and marked a dividing line. We’ll see how this works.

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948 am - so far, so good, the day is young.

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Friday update. I did it two days in a row, minor necessary tweaks on day two. I don’t like it. Beta testerminated.

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