I bought a 19-inch TV (Price: $73) for the bedroom. The thing barely fits on the riser (I had to put it on a riser because there’s not enough space on top of the stereo cabinet to put a TV and a cable box side-by-side), but it does. I probably shouldn’t get a cat, since …
This is similar to what I have seen when entering or descending the escalator to my local mall’s Sears store at ground level. I would swear it was like this as recently as last week. No more. It’s gone from this to this There were two televisions on display, and I was told I shouldn’t …
At the risk of being judged insignificantly discerning about our fast food choices, I have a tale to relate. Occasionally we are (okay, I am) not interested in cooking dinner. This can occur because of my exhaustive labors during the day, my forgetfulness about thawing something from the freezer, or because nothing in the pantry …
As you’ve no doubt heard by now, we found an inadvertent warning of an incoming ballistic missile on our cellphones this morning at 8:07 AM. It took 38 minutes for an acknowledgment that it was pushed in error to our phones. For many people it was a very scary 40 minutes. People huddled in their …
Note: I really don’t think we need to do this. At least, I hope not. Build a bomb shelter. You need to find the most optimal location. In doing so, you need to consider the terrain, water levels, and distance from other structures. This includes location of sewer and electrical lines. Essentially, you want to …
We’ve had some house repair work done, one big job (replacing the front deck and installing a wheelchair ramp of sorts up to it) and three or four small ones (mirror clips installation, under-sink particle board replacement, fence wind damage repair). The estimate was $1,730 for materials and labor. The jobs are pretty much done. …
Last Thursday afternoon, June 1, our side-by-side fridge/freezer began emitting a very loud hum. The following morning I checked our file and determined that yes indeed, this had happened before, in March of this year. The tech came out and cleared various internal vents back then. It worked fine after that, and because we have …
I have had a candy bar or flip phone ever since I succumbed to my first cellphone purchase in 2006 when I realized it would be useful to have one in case the car died while I was in it. Finally, today, I bought an actual smart phone. Not the six or seven hundred dollar …
A while back Library Thing made some programming changes which allowed its users to catalog their music and movie libraries. I have heretofore been keeping a spreadsheet of my CD and Vinyl music collections, but the widget I used to use to convert Excel to HTML doesn’t work with Open Office spreadsheets and it’s a …
Hey, this coffemaker lasted five-plus years before it died! That’s pretty good for this household. I bought it in January of 2012; previous ones lasted less than two years and sometimes as little as one. But why do they die mid-brew? It’s an outrage.