My car's battery was dead. The charging system is faulty somewhere. In order to get it to a shop, I needed to charge up the battery somehow so that I could drive it there.

I borrowed a Schumacher SE-1250 Fast Charge Starter Charger from a friend (because no way can I afford an $85 charger right now) to do that. This morning I hooked it up and ( Read more... )

It is RARE that I will EVER speak in a positive light about a phone company, especially cell phone providers. In general, they ALL suck. They regularly like to screw us and inherently charge us for things we don't actually get (how many times do YOU actually use all the minutes you pay for ( Read more... )

So, recently our family shredder got fed a liitle too much at once, and the plastic guides between the cutting wheels got overwhelmed and broke a few teeth off.  This resulted in persistent jamming problems.

Being a handy guy, I determined that the problem could be fixed by replacing a simple plastic part, and asked my very smart wife to contact the ( Read more... )

Ultimate Electronics in Denver... (formerly Soundtrack) and Soundings ( Read more... )

I needed to order 6 ft hair extensions for some falls I am making ( Read more... )

Several years ago, I installed a Lutron dimmer with IR remote in the back bedroom of my house. A few years later, it stopped working. The remote would work it, but the actual physical switch was not responsive. I pulled it, replaced it with a simple switch, and tried to take it apart to see if it was something simple to fix. I discovered that ( Read more... )

My wife and I are currently in the middle of our basic Open Water SCUBA certification classes. The shop provides the heavy-duty gear, but like all diving classes you have to provide some of the basic "personal" gear - mask, fins, boots, and gloves. The local shop we're working with is decent, but honestly doesn't have a great in-store selection and ( Read more... )

I've been updating the family bug out bags, and one glaring omission has been the lack of fixed-blade knives. Now, it's easy to spend $100 on up to the stratosphere for a single quality blade, and that's why the omission so far, especially when one needs four or five of them. Enter the Mora Craftsman Knife These have sturdy, mild clip-point ( Read more... )

Besides making good, high quality tools (yes, I know, they also make scissors), their customer service is amazing. I do volunteer trailwork, and they make a variety of lightweight loppers (always good when you have to pack in), and a really good folding saw. We had a pair of loppers that were too worn to be useful, and Fiskars, since they didn't ( Read more... )

So I submitted a comment/request on the web comment/request form on the Publix website. (For those of you not in a region served by Publix, it's a largish regional supermarket chain, age 75 years, serving the southeast US.) I have an unfortunate fondness for Sara Lee "Brownie Bites", and my local store doesn't carry them. So I asked that they ( Read more... )