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Dec 29 2008

Drying out…

The carpet fan is whirring away in the background, and I think we dodged the bullet on this one, at least as far as  It Could Have Been Worse.  The major damage that isn’t replaceable is a small stack of papers I’d set aside for scanning, which were on the floor in my office.  I’m [...]

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May 16 2008

Hitting the Wall:

This has been a terrible week, and I’m not in the greatest of moods (and exhausted to boot) so I’ll cut here and save y’all from the long version ‘less’n you’re curious.
NOTE: a lot of posts that I do that aren’t ‘timely’ are done when I have the time in fits and spurts, saved in [...]

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Sep 16 2007

Shakedown:

My mom bought us a chest freezer as a present many years ago, and while I’m usually very ‘don’t toss it until it’s broke’, it was obvious that a replacement was in the cards, and Susan was strongly pushing for an upright freezer.  I have my own objections to such things, mostly because they’ve always [...]

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Jun 19 2004

…..silence and more flood stuff…

Sorry about being out of touch; my internet and phone were cut off for a while, and it’s been incredibly disheartening to deal with the messes from the weekend flood in our basement.
Wednesday morning was spent on the phone again, chasing after people. I arranged for a temporary storage unit to be brought to [...]

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