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 …
I always worry when I’m the first guy on the block to put my bin out on the street for pickup. “Did I get the day of the week wrong? Is this the blue bin night or the green bin night?” We’ll see.
I guess the Tempur-Pedic Mattress company wasn’t kidding when it advertised limited-time-only 3-year financing deals for its products. My goodness. I just looked at the firm’s website and the mattress prices range from $1,699 to $3,699. It’s a damned good thing mine is in good shape.
The weather here, I mean. After doing two loads of laundry and folding the results I decided I didn’t want to cook over a range or oven, so I got takeout. I’m not saying where; I’ll be laughed at if I do.