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so…the guy that used to own our house before us was a BIG guy.
Now, I’m a big guy, but this guy was years of ignoring doctor’s orders big; this guy was break-my-house BIG!
you see, at some point, our house settled, and started to lean to “that” side (as opposed to “this” side — sorry […]

so…we are not dirty people. That being said: we have ants!
Tiny, black ants. Doing a conga line across the counter, around the back of the sink, down one basin wall and then up the other side. They pass other ants coming as they’re going, high-fiving each other — “Up high, yo!” — along […]

so…the insulation job is underway. It turns out that the gas company is going to give us a 20% rebate on the job — it’s like breaking up with a live-in girlfriend and then continuing to live in her house, rent free!
I was sitting in the living foom while the guys were working, and it […]

no…this isn’t a post on birth control and condom usage (although, there is no better birth control than a colicky baby)…today we’re having the house insulated!
no more empty walls. no more $650+ heating bills. no more looking at the thermostat that reads 70-degrees, know for damn sure that it’s only 50 in the room. no […]

Bush to push Americans to cut energy use — Americans to push Bush to stop winter altogether
I’m all for energy conservation, but I don’t believe for one second that this new campaign to encourage people to use less to save more will amount to anything but a bulletpoint that the adminstration can point to when […]

so…we have a mouse.
When I started working on my convert-the-garage-to-a-workshop project this summer, I noticed the remnants of what could only be called an advanced civilization of mice — we’re talking buildings, paved highways, supermarkets, and an elaborate elevator system in the walls. No mice, just the ruins of a time gone past.
well, one […]

so…it’s late Friday morning, I’m “working from home” and I’m sitting on my back porch enjoying the wireless on my new work machine while Erika takes a nap and the carpet cleaner guy does what he does…
this doesn’t suck
…and only 21 minutes until beer o’clock.

so…here’s the rundown of my latest 3-day sojourn from work…
woke up on Friday morning and found out that the disinfectant that I use for my contacts and my new allergy drops are not very friendly with either other. I waited an hour, instead of the 10 minutes the package suggested, before putting my contacts […]

so…to keep with the whole “March comes in like a lion…” thing, this morning we woke up to a very, very cold house!
How cold? Fuckin’ cold!
47 degrees cold! And we’re talking Fahrenheit here…none of this hotter-than-it-look-Celsius shit!
Forty-seven, fortyseven, 40-seven, cuarenta siete, four-ty-seven, 40+7, forty-7, quarenta sete, 30+10+5+2, quaranta sette, fortyfuckingseven, zevenenveertig…don’t mind me, it’s […]

so…we’ve been in the process of remodeling our master bedroom since we moved in, just over one year ago. We started off strong, with my promises of having it done by Thanksgiving — true that was Thanksgiving 2003, and it’s still not done as of Tday 2004, but…once things got cold and the walls were […]