Archive for November, 2007
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Cozy
We rearranged the living room this weekend. Joy found an electric fireplace on Craigslist with an oak mantle and we are trying to mostly use that instead of the propane heat, since the propane seems to be disappearing a lot faster than we were told it would and because of my lung issues. I was [...]
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
De-Crapifying Our Lives
We have been very busy over the past few weeks, going through pretty much everything we own and asking “do we really need this?” We’ve moved ten times in less than ten years and I guess this last time this epiphany hit, ‘why the hell do we have so much stuff!?’
I am very proud to [...]
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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Site updates
I have been working on getting the Critters section of the web site back up and functional over the past week or so. The ‘Contact’ link at the top of the weblog has been replaced with a ‘Critters‘ link and that link goes to a page that in turn links (or will, eventually) to pages [...]
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Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Scary fashions from the 70s
A JC Penney Catalog from 1977Â
Our boss forwarded this to us in an email the other day. I could see that it had come from someone’s blog so I managed to find it on Google so that I could post the link to give the author credit rather than just passing along the email. Pretty [...]
No Comments » - Posted in Found on the Web by Chris
Friday, November 2nd, 2007
Press “1″ if you hate talking to machines
I stumbled across this link while on some site or another and thought I’d share:
gethuman 500 databaseÂ
It lists the phone numbers and bypass codes to quickly get to a real live human being when calling a variety of government agencies, banks, and other companies.
For someone who is a bit on the geeky side, and a [...]
