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 the weekend Gathered dirty dishes from the basement and put …
…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 the bathtub/shower area in the master bath. Bust down the …
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 to read each description and discern the author’s intent, and …
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 (2+ years post-marriage) and filed the release of lien paperwork …
We have a deck spider. Here are some pictures of the spider!
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 yourself in until I do a little leap. It takes …
There was an unexpected consequence of our basement flood from long ago. When the flood clean-up was happening, the servicemaster guys took down our doors and propped them up in the storage area. Well, apparently the wood from the doors had absorbed a fair amount of water, because when we …
By the way, I am not allowed to buy any more t-shirts. Some spring organizing last week revealed that I have well over thirty t-shirts that fall into the “nice enough to wear out” category (i.e., no holes, no stains, no obvious wear). I also have about twenty t-shirts that …
So, it turns out that DSL/T1/etc. are not an option for our address. Anyone in (or formerly of) our area have any other options that we should look into? Is there any highspeed internet with any level of reliability besides DSL and Comcast? I loathe the idea of continuing to …
Inspired by our basement disarray, I’m thinking of giving up my futon, by sale or giveaway. We have plenty of beds in our house. We don’t really *need* another convertible bed. It takes up space in our basement that could be better allocated. As far as being extra seating, any …