Archive for March, 2007
Saturday, March 31st, 2007
Cutting the Cord …er… I Mean Cable
Just giving everyone who might try to call us a heads up that we have disconnected some of our Charter Cable services to cut expenses — including our phone service. The price on our package plan inexplicably went up almost $40 and it was kind of the last straw, after all the other issues we’ve [...]
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Monday, March 26th, 2007
Spring cleaning!
I sold one of my junk computers for $50 which enabled us to finally buy a wheelbarrow and some gardening supplies, and we spent most of this weekend working in our yard — which was a lot more fun than it sounds.
I don’t think I had gotten around to mentioning the ‘for sale’ [...]
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Saturday, March 17th, 2007
When Geeks Hallucinate
I have been suffering from one of my periodic bouts of insomnia this week; this time, it’s not a problem with getting to sleep, or waking up in the middle of the night, but rather I just sort of drift through the entire night without feeling like I was ever truly asleep.
Yesterday morning the alarm [...]
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Tuesday, March 13th, 2007
Weird little optical illusion
A coworker found this today. Pretty neat.
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Monday, March 5th, 2007
Lost Lumber
Yesterday we had a little bit of excitement… we were leaving Ingles after doing some grocery shopping and I spotted a large brindle dog standing in the middle of the shopping center entrance, looking totally lost and bewildered. I pointed him out to Joy and we drove over for a closer look. Two women in [...]
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Saturday, March 3rd, 2007
A few more tweaks to the site
I’ve replaced the car in the tunnel that came with the WordPress theme we’re using with something a bit more appropriate to our site — though I am still toying with the idea of changing the colors. I thought everyone who knows us and our perpetual moves would be amused by the UHaul truck (that [...]
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Thursday, March 1st, 2007
Life Comes at You Fast
The title of this post comes from a commercial that has been on TV lately for some insurance company (I think?) and seemed appropriate to both the above image of a dust imprint left by a bird that hit our picture window last week (I know, it just looks like a black rectangle, but [...]
