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I've always wanted a 3-wheeled car-
1/5/2009 8:41:00 PM
But this isn't the one I had in mind...
Spousal Unit is still sick with a cold-
1/4/2009 10:21:00 AM
What day is this now, 4, 5? She's had a whopper of a cold, with the sniffling, sneezing, coughing, achy head and chest, trying to sleep it off with Nyquil bug for too many days now. She might be a little better this morning, but she's back in bed, snuggling a cat, so it's hard to tell.
As for me, I'm heading out into the coldest day so far this winter to bring in the nativity scene from the front yard. I need to round up my neighbor to help me move the snowblower back under the carport and out of my shop. There are a couple steps that it will need lifted over and I can't do that by myself.
I did get the new parts installed in the snowblower so it should be good to go for the rest of the season. We'll see.
And my friend Carol has decided, for reasons yet unexplained that Microsoft's Instant Messenger is no longer acceptable for conversation and switched over to Yahoo Messenger. Which I had to install on this computer if I wanted to keep up with her. I haven't tried it yet but it looks like a spam generator to me!
434 bucks? Dammitman that's an expensive housecall!
1/4/2009 9:57:00 AM
Yeah, $434 last Friday for Rescue Rooter to come to the house and unclog my kitchen sink drain.! That was waaay too much money and if I had known how much it was going to cost, I would have worked harder to fix it myself. That was just a crazy amount of money for the value received. I did get the clog unstuck but that was a lousy bite in my check book.
As it turned out, Rescue Rooter guy took one look at our clog, borrowed my ladder so he could work through the vent stack on the roof and pushed a Scour-Jet 1500 high pressure nozzle down to the clog. Once he cleared that he also installed a float ball valve in our laundry room floor drain to prevent the washer discharge from wetting the floor all the time. And both his fixes seem to have worked very well, I'll give him that.
And I suppose, if I had decided to fix my problem myself, I could have dug a little deeper, (and longer) to remove the clog. I should have gone to The Home Depot and rented a motorized cable snake and done the job myself. But I had deluded myself into thinking a hundred dollar bill or a little more was all a plumber was going to cost me and so I committed to going that route. Not next time though!
A Wunder Boner- I need this thing!
1/2/2009 8:41:00 PM
According to El Capitan they don't seem to be available any longer. Too bad.
Uncle Jay explains 2008
1/1/2009 6:13:00 PM
And thanks to my friend JoAnne for turning me on to this!