MG Data

I had wanted to build some cabinets in my garage. The garage is about 1000 square feet and attached to the house. I intended to build some cabinets and put them up along the south wall of the garage between two windows. This is about 16 foot long area. I didn’t want anything fancy but just some extra storage. Anyhow, as way leads to way, the weekend came along and I somehow picked up a computer virus _ex-08.exe and monnid32.exe. Figuring this out and cleaning up my system took most of Saturday so the prospect of getting these cabinets built did not look good. (Btw…. for the virus issue, just incase someone stumbles on this page with the same problem, I used Malwarebytes Anti-Malware and it did a great job at cleaning the system). Now, short on time, as this was a weekend project, I remembered a friend of mine, William, had told me weeks earlier when I was talking about the cabinets that he just simplified it and lined the wall of his garage with ordinary gym style lockers. I looked more into it late on that Saturday and decided to give myself a break and put the lockers in instead. Well I went shopping for the best price (actually I had only my budget for the cabinet materials to spend). I didn’t realize the selection I’d have but I ordered ones like this locker. I got 4 of these for a total of 36 compartments. Since my budget allowed it I went and upgraded to assembled. They arrived about 2 weeks later on a freight truck and after unpacking, I put them into place, screwed them into the wall, and viola, 36 cabinets. For the situation at hand, it can’t be beat. No time wasted, computer is clean and the cabinets are in and I’m back to work… oh yeah. Bye!

US Beacon has recently updated thier dataset to include 2005 demographic data. I found it interesting to look at my hometown of Hesperia, CA to compare the 2000 and 2005 datasets.

The data indicates the population in 2000 was 62,582 and in 2005 the population had increased to 79,714. This represents an increase of about 25%. Interestingly the actual number of white people in Hesperia has gone down by 78 people while the number of hispanic or latino’s has gone up by 14,823 (from 29.40% of the population in 2000 to 41.68% of the population in 2005).

See the full report of Hesperia’s population and demographic data

Coulter Pine Trees (Pinus coulteri)

5 Gallon size Coulter Pine trees for sale.  19 available. $40/ea or make offer for all 19. Moving, must sell, grown from seed, in pots, ready to go. They are are from 1997-99. Excellent health.

Coulter Pines are almost impossible to find at any nursery, they are native to the lower portions of the San Bernardino and San Gabriel (local) mountains. Very nice looking tree at all ages. They produce large heavy cones that are a tan-yellow color with edible seeds. They have needles that are up to 14″ long for adult trees and have a deep green to greenish-blue color. Adult trees have long, sometimes swooping, robust branches. They do well in the high desert, just add water. They are slower growing than most of the common nursery pines, but they are the closest thing we have to a native pine tree here in the high desert. They exhibit a very nice classic pine tree shape with a broad spread.

See some pictures here:
http://www.desertmud.com/trees/
Pictures taken on April 20, 2004. Trees have grown some since the pictures were taken.

Pictures at bottom of the page show full grown Coulter Pines.

Also available:
9 x 1 gallon size Ponderosa Pines – Small cone Southern California Variety ($10/ea)
1 x 1 gal Jeffery Pine ($10)
3 x 2 gal Coulter Pine ($15/ea)
1 x 5 gal Italian Stone Pine ($20)

Recently our main office needed some employee lockers. We looked at the internet and found a great company called Lockers Depot. They are based out of Southern California so we were able to pick up the lockers ourselves to save on the shipping costs which for lockers are quite hefty. We placed our order and were able to pick up the lockers 3 days later. Assembly of the lockers was easy thanks to the instructions provided and now we are set with 42 bright new locker units.

That’s me.

Hesperia, CA

Grand Junction, CO

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