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Saturday, November 28, 2015

This Week

This week 12-01-15 Don't try to catch it!! Over the years and through several houses I've installed 3 hot water heaters. It was never a big deal. Go to the hardware store, buy it (usually a few hundred bucks), take it home, turn off the water, drain the water out of the old one, unhook it, drag it out to the garage, drag in the new one, hook it back up, turn the water back on, put the old one in the garbage .. about half a day's work.. So a few years ago when they told me we nee... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, November 28, 2015

Saturday, November 21, 2015

This Week

This week 11-24-15 200 Fish! When I was about 10 or 11 my Grandfather invited my family to his favorite place in Colorado. He and my Grandmother had a cabin that was sparse at best. My mom hated it, but it was up in the mountains so she didn't hate it long. We were going trout fishing. We had been practicing our fly casting for a month. We were great as long as we were standing out in the middle of the street in front of our house.. The first day we didn't catch anything. It seemed ... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, November 21, 2015

Saturday, November 14, 2015

This Week

This week 11-17-15 Primitives When I was in college writing "Assemblers" for a computer class  in college we had to write what the professor called "primitives" first. An Assembler is just a big computer program. It's very complex if you look at it as one big program, but simple if you break it down in to parts. The "primitives" were the most basic, simple, lowest level routines. Things like: when you hit "A" on your keyboard an "A" shows up on the screen (about 20 lines of code... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, November 14, 2015

Saturday, November 7, 2015

This Week

This week 11-10-15 Fritos and a nice 66 Rothschild One of the little known facts about Hope is that I make all of the communion bread. I've done it for every communion service we've ever had, all 27 years. Currently I make about 150 loaves for church wide communion. People always come up to me and say how great the bread was. Of course I know that they only got a pinch of it to taste. One time I left the salt out and it tasted terrible, people still said it was great. I think wh... Read More
Posted by Mack Oates at Saturday, November 7, 2015