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To Build or Not To Build 10

To Build or Not To Build

There comes a time in the course of a computer geek’s computing that he (or she) realizes that upgrading has been put off for WAY too long. That time came the other night as the desktop started choking on HD...

Social Blunder #6 1

Social Blunder #6

When the vast majority of your co-workers think you're "Most Likely to Go Postal", it's a bad idea to joke about bringing in an AK-47. Just sayin'.

Sneak peek 11

Sneak peek

We're not done yet. It's taking forever and we still don't have the ability to use the stove/oven or sink. But we just dropped the sink in tonight and doesn't it look so pretty with the counter top? My neighbor,...

Social Blunder #84 4

Social Blunder #84

A voice mail is not the place to start monologuing. Leaving me a 2-minute message to say what could be said in 20 seconds means it'll take that much longer for me to call you back (plus the time to...

Defeating Despotism One Kitchen Counter at a Time 5

Defeating Despotism One Kitchen Counter at a Time

The trip to Home Despot is often enough to make me drag my heels for weeks on basic home improvement tasks. It's usually too crowded, nobody useful works there, nothing is labeled. I suppose if you're a elbow-throwing contractor that...

Counter Chunks, Part Deux (Or: Why I’d like to hunt down the people who lived here before us) 7

Counter Chunks, Part Deux (Or: Why I’d like to hunt down the people who lived here before us)

So… many more pieces of counter just spontaneously fell off . And then the counter turned into the giant scab on your arm that you just can’t leave alone. I picked at it and picked at it… until this happened:...

Royal India in Sandy worthy of applause 11

Royal India in Sandy worthy of applause

Last night, Jesse and I checked out a restaurant we've heard some good things about: Royal India . It's in Sandy in the same shopping center as Smith's. I was a little reluctant at first because it's one of those...

A Year of Blogging 17

A Year of Blogging

As of August 9th, this little blog has been going for a year. Since then, we've built up from nothing to over 1500 unique visitors dropping by over 4200 times a month, moved from a dinky secondhand server on our...

Catch Up on Classic Books the Easy Way 3

Catch Up on Classic Books the Easy Way

You know you've always wanted to read the collected works of Dickens. Maybe you really want to catch up on your Cervantes. Perhaps you've always meant to read The Art of War but never got around to it. With DailyLit,...

John Cusack can do no wrong. 6

John Cusack can do no wrong.

Shauna and I watched Serendipity tonight. As with every other one of his flicks I've seen, it was good. I'm beginning to think he just can't make truly bad movies. Or do I have some kind of weird man-crush on...