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Beware of Falling Objects

Beware of Falling Objects

And you know. Mess. Difficulties. Blasted ugly layouts. It’s time for some changes around here, and I’m not going to do it all at once. That way lies madness. Not to mention I don’t really know what I’m doing yet. 🙄 So, uhh…feel free to complain if things get too bad. Poke me if something […]

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Two Years Ago Today

This post isn’t really for you. It’s for me. Friends to whom I whine about my lack of progress: you know what to do. Two years ago today, in my quest to avoid whatever I was working on, I added up what I’ve written over the years. Talking about Ray Bradbury’s million words, it went

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Danger, Will Robinson

Today I bought an extension cord to make my standing-on-ladders-with-power-tools a little easier. The child tried to grab the 50-foot one, but I pointed out that could probably go all the way around our house, and bought the 10-foot one. I also bought a hook for my bike. And a plant hanger. And a few

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Satisfaction in Little Things

I cleaned out my storage area today. There are things in there that have been in storage since we moved in. And though some of that–the cat carrier, for instance–is still relevant, most of it is not. So away it goes. There is room now for me to lock my bike inside when it comes.

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Power Tools

Ya gotta love power tools.  Tonight we got that damn thing together in about twenty minutes. If the thought of me with a drill in my hands doesn’t frighten you–it should.  I have this evil cackle I can’t stop, when I have my Black and Decker takes-two-hands, sixteen drill bits and a couple extra toys

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How Old Am I?

I’ll answer my own question.  I’m thirty-six.  So how come I’m only now figuring out how I work? Regular readers will have noticed a period of distance.  I was just searching out things on the web to toss on this blog.  I tend to go in cycles like that, and I’m only beginning to map

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Tools of the Trade

I got a new computer, I got a new computer, I got a new computer!!  I got my tax refund and I put most of it in the bank for the summer of no income, but I took some of it and I went to Best Buy and I got a new computer!! Ahem.   Okay,

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