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Stuff about our house

Twas the night before the night before the night before Christmas…

I don’t normally Twitter-ship, but it’s the best way to blog this: about 10 hours ago from digsby: 5-starred Don’t Speak and Underneath It All on Hard…singing & guitar simultaneously. Only 4 stars on expert tho’ about 8 hours ago … Continue reading

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Fried Rice

I did another big batch of fried rice tonight, while waiting for my evening meeting to start. I decided to take a picture of part of the batch: Tonight’s recipe: 2 cups well-rinsed and cooked sticky white rice 2-3 eggs, … Continue reading

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It was bound to happen…

This morning, in a crazy rush to get the car backed out so I could take the garbage cans to the curb, I slammed my passenger side mirror frame into the edge of the garage. The garbage truck was on … Continue reading

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Fried Rice

This past weekend, I made my first attempt at fried rice. Using my spiffy new Sanyo 3-1/2-Cup Micro-Computerized Fuzzy Logic Rice Cooker with Bread-Baking Functions, I made 2 cups of brown rice on Saturday afternoon/evening. I left it in the … Continue reading

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Productive!

Last night, I: Prepped and cooked rice in my brand new Sanyo fuzzy logic rice cooker! delicious! Programmed our Logitech Harmony 880 remote to work with the new basement setup Went grocery shopping for soda, rice, and breakfast food for … Continue reading

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If money and resale weren’t an issue…

…here are some things I’d do to our house: Merge the two guest bedrooms upstairs into one larger bedroom. Make the guest bathroom larger at the same time and include space for a washer and dryer. Increase the size of … Continue reading

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Kitchen Essentials

The posting of this article over on LifeHacker has led to a healthy flood of comments. First, the article is written very poorly. It is not easy to figure out which items are the good or the bad. You have … Continue reading

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Productive!

Stuff done today: Lots of work, including making peace with a guy who’d been bugging me…worked straight through lunch even and ended up eating “lunch” at 4pm DMV: Renewed driver’s license, renewed plates, finally changed name on title of car … Continue reading

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I can has flies?

We have a deck spider. Here are some pictures of the spider!

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Happenings

Rented a BIG ASS TRUCK for the weekend. It’s a Dodge Ram. I can’t even find it on their website. I have to do a pull up to get myself into it. I can’t even reach the handle to pull … Continue reading

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