You never feel quite as manly as you do when you fix your own toilet. Now granted, it was only the ball-float assembly… but it only cost me $10 and I did it myself! My other toilet repair I fear is going to be more involved, so I will pay a professional… but seeing as […]

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Crap… I got to helping my cousin spec out a new computer and midnight just blew by. I’ll take a one-day miss… no big deal. Things have been going pretty well, work has been busy but good, and I’m really missing karate right now. If you can believe it, I’m still sore from Saturday… this […]

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Today I started a strange work week… our schedule has shifted from noon to 8 pm in order to accommodate our testing group. This stinks because I don’t get the chance to see Tasha as much, but honestly the work hours suit me a lot better. I got up around 9 am to dial into […]

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I’m sore all over today. Not just a little bit… sore ALL OVER. Talk about a comprehensively painful workout yesterday… I hope the rest of the crew feels the same way because I am hurting! I’m sure this level of pain is going to be a constant over the next few weeks… this week I’m […]

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Today’s workout consisted of normal Saturday basics, then some drills to focus on side thrust kick and roundhouse kick using the stage as a reminder of how high these kicks should be. This was followed by two Tekki Nidan kata, then pushups until you couldn’t do pushups any more (my puny arms could only muster […]

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The furnace has been turned on and is now warming up! And my new thermostat talks. Its quite interesting, now we have the ability to turn the house up and down depending on time of day, or day of week. Its really cool… well… warm… you get the idea!

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Well, as I write this our furnace is half-installed. Our technician headed out about an hour and a half ago to go get some conduit cut to connect our new furnace to the existing ductwork and he still hasn’t shown back up. He’s still gotta get this thing all hooked back together, run the new […]

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Yep, so we decided to stay with TroubleFree and go with a new 80% efficiency variable-speed Amana furnace. We would’ve gone with one of the ultra high efficiency furnaces but the lady said that usually involves ductwork/chimney upgrades as well and it would “get expensive fast”. The lady explained to me that the new unit […]

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Looks like we’re going to end up with a new furnace! The people from TroubleFree Heating and Cooling came out to inspect our furnace and found that it was so caked with soot and buildup that his telescoping camera couldn’t make out whether or not our heat exchanger was cracked or damaged. He said that […]

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I came home today to find my carbon monoxide detector alarming. I would’ve immediately assumed that it was the batteries and not a real problem, except for the fact that we changed the battery a few days ago when the thing went off unexpectedly. I relocated one of the very old CO detectors into our […]

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