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.
While the rest of the country particularly in the Southeast had much worse damage, we had our own
Ten years ago I bought an Onkyo stereo amplifier/receiver to replace the long-deceased Sansui 5500 I bought in 1973. It’s worked fine ever since, powering my turntable and my Pioneer CS-88 speakers, also bought in 1973. Last week, though, something happened. I turned the receiver on to the radio channel and got no sound. I …
Yep. That’s my age today. I don’t feel a day over 56, though. I’ve been on some of the remaining parts of that road in Arizona and in California.
If you need a new one of these things because the old one doesn’t fit your new glasses, but you didn’t buy the old one, what term would you use to search for it? I tried about four different phrases before I came up with an image sufficiently like it that I could get the …