Amy is ready to file our tax return. Unfortunately, all that overtime last summer on the engineering warehouse job appears to have bitten us pretty hard: we're going to get back less than half of what we got last year. File that under "not good" and take it as a reason for us to start looking for more/better income elsewhere. There are a lot of ( Read more... )

I am back at a job site with my current company, after a little longer than three months with the other guys. Last Friday afternoon, the Other Electric Company guys let Marcus and me off early*, with all of us already knowing at that point that we wouldn't be returning next week. We shook hands and said friendly goodbyes; I was definitely ready ( Read more... )

As always, it's great to be home. The cats were overjoyed to see us! Both of them clearly wanted to have lots of pets and other contact: Luna actually climbed on me as I was lying in bed for a little after-dinner rest (and phone scroll), and licked my face everywhere and vigorously nuzzled on my forehead. I hugged her and announced that I was ( Read more... )

Our microwave broke. It had a pretty good run; it lasted at least 7 years, and was bought 2nd-hand for $75. Getting a replacement will be...maybe easy, since Black Friday is right around the corner? One can hope, anyway ( Read more... )

It is now time to release memes!

I'm kidding, but only partially: this post is more about an effort in celebrating the win of Neutral Good (or maybe, Chaotic Good) over Lawful Evil, than it is just an effort in mocking the left et al for one of the most satisfying losses since Bush v Gore (or Kerry; take your pick).


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The new Frigidaire dishwasher is fantastic!  The cycle Amy uses takes over 2 hours to run, but everything comes out *gleaming* when it's done.

Amy has gotten Carissa involved in American Heritage Girls: it's an organization that serves as the female equivalent to Trail Life- which itself is the Christian equivalent to Boy Scouts.  On top of that ( Read more... )

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To those of you who recently made a post remembering 9/11- regardless of whether it was to say "never forget," "f- the surveillance state," "I want our rights back," "we lost/wasted a lot of blood and treasure in 20 years of war," or some other thought- I thank you; and as long as you didn't say something stupid like "hooray terrorism!" or "long ( Read more... )

The Sunday before last, our church custodian fell and broke his hip right at the end of the service. At last report, he's going to be immobile for 8 weeks. Our Deacon chairman wrote out all the tasks he performs and all the active Deacons have taken one or more of them. I did the tile entryway mopping the previous Saturday (a > 45 minute job), ( Read more... )

Feast your eyes on all of this- well, underneath the cut, anyway.


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