The leak in the kitchen had been getting worse, and this week, Cat Lady finally had to get that section of the roof replaced. Not. Cheap ( Read more... )

In case you happened to have missed the original ad:

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And here's the response:

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Source: new Cheerios commercial, which in turn was promoted by my daughter.

Some quick family data points before we run out of June: My folks had their 50th wedding anniversary on the 9th, my brother turned 45 on the 10th, which is also the day he and his wife had their 15th wedding anniversary. Cat Lady and I celebrated three years of our relationship on the 12th; we went out for Lebanese in Scranton, and were very ( Read more... )

The first two schools responded to my http://SafeAmericanKids.com marketing, which is actually a great start!

Cat Lady and I went to visit my folks in Bridgewater yesterday.

"Science and Technology Knowledge Quiz Results: You answered 13 of 13 questions correctly."

The real sad part is that 15% got worse than 5 out of 13. Considering that many of the questions are true/false, one could truly answer randomly and do better than those people.

Got a good blast of snow today, after brief flurries the last two days. My-cast.com is calling for 90% chance of snow Monday, when we're scheduled to fly out. Still, as with the rest of this winter, accumulations have been generally been trivial ( Read more... )

I turned 48 today. My brother's wife turned 38. And their second child turned 0.

I'm sure you can think of more ideas as to how to use AboutTh.is, which will let you put your voice on top of anybody else's webpage. Here's what I've come up with so far; please feel free to add your thoughts below:

• Bloggers, email newsletter publishers, and other online business owners typically send their audience to pages which are not under ( Read more... )

We had practically no disruption from Hurricane Sandy here at home. My parents had some utility outages for the last four days. My brother and his family apparently lost their entire home; they haven't been able to return to confirm, yet ( Read more... )

Several miscommunications within the family over the past week, causing far more angst than was really necessary, but all seems settled now, more-or-less ( Read more... )