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	Florence Griswold Museum	-	Sat Jan 30 02:47:04 2010
	Florence Griswold Museum main gallery. Cath and I went to the Florence Griswold Museum today after picking up two free passes at the New London public library. Since I’m not working right now, free is good. The picture gallery in the main building was OK - nice paintings, but nothing really outstanding. Perhaps it was just me, but the building seemed like it had more spaced devoted to non-accessible function rooms than actual gallery space. The Florence Griswold boarding house. For me, the best part was the actual Florence Griswold house where the artists lived while venturing out into the countryside to paint during the warmer months of the early 20th century. I’ve always been more interested in exhibits showing how people lived in the past (go figure), so I felt that this was far more interesting than the main building. An art installation at the Florence Griswold Museum made entirely of twigs. One of the more unusual exhibits that happened to be on the museum grounds was a structure built out of branches cut on site. I can’t recall the guy’s name that made the structure, but I’ve seen pictures other work that he has done on the web before. All in all, a good way to spend a few hours. Filed under: Uncategorized. No comments.
	Baking Bread	-	Thu Jan 28 01:31:38 2010
	Home made bread. I have to admit that while I can cook, quite well IMHO, the one thing I really had a problem with until recently was baking. Now that I found myself with a bit of time on my hands, I decided to take a crack at correcting that. It took about 6 days of making one or two loves of bread a day, but I finally managed to get to the point where I can consistently make a loaf of bread in about an hour and a half. That’s the total time it takes from starting to mix the ingredients to cutting the first slice. The loves themselves are not very big since I try to make at least one loaf of bread a day for practice. More importantly, I’m the only one eating them, so there’s not point in making them larger just yet. Now if I could just figure out how to make a good sour dough bread, I’d really be happy. Filed under: Uncategorized. No comments.
	Unemployment +22 Days	-	Thu Jan 14 02:10:22 2010
	Connecticut unemployment web site hous of operation. Trying to get unemployment in Connecticut sucks. All of the unemployment offices were closed some time ago, so if you want to file for unemployment benefits you have only two choices: phone or web page. The web page seems like the obvious choice, but is so overloaded that it didn’t work for until recently. This wasn’t an IE or Firefox optimized website issue, the back end web server were just completely overloaded by the traffic. To top it off, parts of the web page are only “open” at certain hours, so this forces people to hit the web site during a specific time range instead of spreading the server load across the entire day. Calling is not much better, but at least that I can understand since staffing phones 24 hours a day would get expensive. Call wait times run about two hours before you can talk to someone and the hold music occasionally stops completely making you wonder if the call dropped or not. To make matters worse, there are times that you can’t even get through to the number, so the best time to call is in the early morning just after the phone lines open. Given the two choices you might think that the web page might be the better option, but this is where you get to discover the real fun part of the process - you have to do both. Yep, first you need to file an initial claim on the website, then you need to actually call someone so that they can read back everything you entered on the web page, then OK the claim. Very irritating, but thankfully you only need to do this once. Filed under: Unemployment. No comments.