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Category Archives: General
Halloween!
03-Nov-09What To Do If You Break Your Cellphone
30-Aug-09I’ve had uncanny bad luck with cellphones for the past 3-4 months. I had a new phone, a nice Nokia with a camera and an MP3 player. Cracked the screen. Went back to my Razr from 2006. Cracked the screen on that.
Now, I’m still into my contract for at least a [...]
Lets Call Her Laramie.
02-Aug-09I should tell you that sometimes I have been known to trash pick. I’m nowhere near the level of scavenger that my wife is, but sometimes I give in. Like when someone leaves out a perfectly good salvageable mountain bike with a sign on it that says ‘Take me’.
I’ve been promising myself for at least [...]
Cache. That’s French for Hidden.
30-Jul-09So my boss got a new iPhone. He downloaded the free iPhone app for geocaching. We went out a lunch earlier this week looking for a cache. We did not find it. not by a long shot. And thus an obsession was born.
I did find the one pictured above. Can’t tell you where though. That [...]
Mark Halaway
27-Jul-09I found out rather abruptly that my old friend Mark Halaway died back in January. He was listed in the Memorial section at the back of our high school alumni magazine. When I was done being shocked, I began to remember very clearly all the good times we had, and what a positive influence he [...]
So no Comcast TV at the new house. Except for the cable modem that I am using to publish this post. I would have gone for Verizon FIOS here, not to be spitful or anything, but because its a faster product. Alot faster. The problem there: for whatever reason, They have my new address in [...]
Small Reward
14-Apr-09The conditions were relentless this morning, rainy, windy etc. Had my best rowing coach’s voice bouncing around in my head climbing the rise coming away from my house…’You row the conditions. The conditions don’t row you.’ Its gems like this one, implanted at 16, that can convince an otherwise smart person to go for a training [...]
Almost Final Tally.
06-Apr-09The bedrooms, the LR and the dining rooms are painted. The floors look about the best they probably have since…I don’t know, the 60s?
All the tiles are pulled from the porch.
The kitchen and the breakfast nook are gutted. All paneling out, floor tiles out, cabinets taken down(thanks Cullen!).
I gutted one of the upstairs bedrooms. [...]
I was wrong about there being no surprises. But this is the nature of home ownership, right?
I found things this weekend…things that made me reconsider my otherwise universally warm feelings towards towards animals domesticated or otherwise.
To start with, I pulled up rugs in the family and dining rooms after our painting was finished. Parts of [...]
progress, my ass.
29-Mar-093 rooms painted, 2 rooms to go.
I was on the ladder yesterday cutting out the top of the walls when it occurred to me why my entire body was achey.
I haven’t stood this much for this long in years. I mean, I work, sitting on my ass all day, and then I work out, sitting on my [...]