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Home Repairs
So, we have wooden floors through part of our first floor. A few years back my parents' large dog was running around our house like a 100-pound crazed fool, and a strange, round hole the size of a pencil eraser appeared in the middle of the hallway. I sighed and figured that he'd managed to pop out a knot. Mainly, I've ignored it since, although " ( Read more... ) -
The End of Many Eras
So, today, Chael informed me that with the new year, the Gossamer admin server and Tooms are probably moving back to a shared server environment; almost all the chaos.x-philes.com mailing lists are being retired; and I'm posting this from my new netbook which seems to be kind of pissed off with the way I type. -
In the ongoing battle of the picky eater . . .
Last night, the kid looked at my sweet potato casserole and said "What's that? Pumpkin ( Read more... ) -
Saving for myself: duplicating fieldset rounded corners in FF and Safari
CSS to duplicate IE rounded corners on fieldsets in Firefox and Safari ( Read more... ) -
Yea, sweet cucumber!!
Apparently, from reading gardening message boards recently, there's this massive problem out there with gardens producing bitter cucumbers ( Read more... ) -
"I Write Like"
One of my stories returned to me Dan Brown, the other Vladimir Nabokov.
I presume that combination is equal to: you write like nobody else, and we're not sure if that is a good thing, or a bad thing.
If you have been living in a cave for the past week, and have no idea what "I Write Like" is about --> here you go. -
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I think I have found the utterly dumbest toy over-packaging possible. I bought a plastic toy for $4.98 on clearance at Target today. I doubt it was more than $10 originally. I sat down with scissors to extract it, only to discover that the toy was actually SCREWED into its packaging. They put metal screws through the cardboard up into the toy ( Read more... ) -
Gardening, and etc
I am currently giving a salt bath to my garden's first head of broccoli--even though it doesn't appear that we've actually got the cabbage loopers that you're supposed to be killing with the salt bath. Better safe than terrifying the kid with one of the veggies he subsists on.
I took a picture of the garden yesterday, to show exactly how the ( Read more... ) -
The definition of "this sucks"
Six weeks ago, my parents spent 14K replacing their roof down to and including the sheathing, rebuilding their chimney, replacing all their gutters, and repairing their eaves and porch. This hadn't been done in close to 50 years ( Read more... ) -
On the topic of food . . .
So, for the past few weeks, I've been involved in an on-and-off discussion about groceries, food, classism and other topics on a blog elsewhere. One of the claims that comes up over and over on that blog has been that you might as well go out to dinner, because making dinner for 4 costs $25-$30 in groceries. My mind boggles. I have no idea how ( Read more... )