No, not the book by James Thurber but what had to be reset on Sunday.

3rd floor
timer on aux heater in bedroom
timer on evening light in bedroom
alarm clock in bedroom
2nd floor
clock sitting on top of Tivo in living room
thermostat
kitchen clock
microwave
answering machine
evening light timer in bathroom
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Last night we in bed with the lights out and in spite of the "lights out, no talking" rule, the people in bed were talking about all the chores they did. They never say exactly what chores they do, but claim they are exhausted from doing them. And then rsc said oops, we forgot to do our chores: take out the garbage and recycling. And so out of bed in ( Read more... )

I heard a large thump and then a car alarm went off.  Out on the street I saw this:


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We wandering about somewhere in Ireland and I espied this, and then:


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I live on West St in mid-Cambridge - a short street that runs between Lee and Inman streets. I don't yet know why it is named West St, but... I was looking up some historical information from a book (1) that I have and here is what I learned thus far ( Read more... )

One of the consequences of living in the same place for a long time (43 years) is that one accumulates stuff. That coupled with the fact that I don't often throw things away has yielded a rather full spice rack with many unused items - some of which are antiques. Rest assured that most are recent.


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On Thursday we noticed we had no dial tone so I called Verizon and got an appointment for Friday morning. I tried to test the box outside but it was hardwired into the house into a hornets nest of wires (fortunately not hornets). When the tech came and poked around for a while said there was something wrong - went down the street and changed the ( Read more... )