Since no one's said anything about snow for a couple weeks, I ran the snowblower out of gas, changed the oil, bagged it, and moved it to the back of the garage.

I'm going to declare that, as of 4:01pm today (10:01pm GMT), as signified by the fact that the snowblower is put away for the year, winter is now officially over.

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Sunday afternoon we broke the bed. One of the box spring halves cracked along the center line of the bed, right where the rail of the box spring sits on the foot-end crossbar ( Read more... )

Jackie says that being up on the dryer while I'm folding clothes is good, because then she gets big piles of warm clothes to sit on and try and squash the lumps out of, but it becomes less fun when I then fill the dryer with wet pillows and tennis balls.

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I was in one of the teaching labs this afternoon installing some new equipment, and one of the undergrads asked me how I knew how to do so many things ( Read more... )

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teeka says I'm being mean to the Trick or Treaters ( Read more... )

Every three years at work we run a survey of our alumni. It's become my job for the last two because I'm the only one who's bothered to figure out the UW's web survey tool. Among other things, it means I'm the only one who knows all the names of who answered the questions (we ask, and if they don't want their contact info, I strip it off the data ( Read more... )