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Update (11/24/10, 4:45 PM): Thanksgiving has been saved! The electrician came, and the house is rewired for a double oven. The appliance store tech came but couldn’t fix the oven. And he wasn’t going to do anything about it until Friday. No way, we said, and it turned out an almost identical double oven was […]
I’m not very good at breezy updates (unlike my new favorite blogger Nancy Nall), but I’ll try. I was up early this morning to catch the first wave of El Tour de Tucson riders as they streamed past our subdivision in northeast Tucson. The riders in the photographs are competing in the full 109-mile tour; […]
We went for a bicycle ride this morning with other members of our Trail Trash riding group. Along the way I had an unpleasant encounter with a motorist. Did it really spoil the ride? No, but it was shocking to me to realize how much some folks hate bicyclists. We were riding south toward the […]
I bought a Nook for my birthday. I deliberated long & hard between the Nook and the Kindle, finally going with the Nook because I’ll be able to borrow e-books from public libraries with it. But why buy an e-reader at all? Here’s why: I’ve literally run out of shelf space for new acquisitions. A […]
I’m back: 9 days, 2,700 miles, and one sore butt later, it’s time to say a few words about my motorcycle trip. When you ride a motorcycle, everyone wants to know what you do when it rains. The answer is: you keep riding. Rain was a factor the first three days. I hit a bad […]
As you know, I’ve been working on my motorcycle (thanks, Ed!). All the fixing, adjusting, lubricating, and tweaking has been in preparation for a long solo ride through Arizona, Nevada, and California. Launch date is just a few days away, and my concerns have shifted from maintenance to packing. What to bring, and how much? […]
When you see one of these, you may as well give up: Yes, I was visited by the Blue Screen of Death earlier this week. My PC’s hard drive suddenly failed, and none of the files on it were recoverable. Fortunately, I still had all the original system CDs that came with my computer, along […]
Two weeks ago, in anticipation of an upcoming visit from a friend, Donna started to paint the guest bedroom. “Let’s rip out the carpet while we’re at it, and put in wood laminate flooring,” she said, and my heart sank. Why? Because I knew it would turn into a huge project, not confined to one […]