After a nice lunch out at Chick-fil-A, I set to the task of fixing our toilet.  The tank refused to refill just before we left to head back to Illinois, so I shut off the water and let it sit while we were gone. So I ventured out to Lowe’s and bought a toilet tank […]

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Today Tasha and I went to church (Saint Mark’s Catholic Church) which we think might work as a permanent church while we’re here in Colorado.  They have a nice congregation and a Mass that feels a lot like Saint Joseph’s in Pekin, which is nice.  After that, I ate the deep fried gutbuster at Denny’s […]

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Today was The Day of Chores, so I started out cleaning the bathroom.  Our upstairs bathroom is an unenviable task to clean.  It gets used frequently, and I am often too lazy to get the job done in a consistent manner.  The drain had clogged, so I poured my Drano Foaming Pipe Snake down there […]

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I had a very productive workday today (probably my most productive in the last few weeks), however I did get a bit of a break during the day.  My supervisor and I had the same fault occur on our sprinkler systems within the same day, and he is rather handy and knows how to fix […]

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I came home from our errands today and noticed that a bit of warm weather combined with the remaining ice sheet had created a slush event on my sidewalk.  Since its going to get cold again, I figured it was time to have another go at the sidewalk and start breaking the ice to allow […]

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So a few weeks ago, amidst the cleaning frenzy of the Man Cave project, my Dyson vacuum started acting up.  I noticed that the hose assembly had lost suction but the regular vacuum was working just fine.  While I was trying to diagnose the problem, the vacuum up and quit working altogether. I quickly admitted […]

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Just to follow up on my previous posting, our furnace continued to act up after I deemed it a false alarm a few days ago.  We had the furnace repairman come out, who found a bad flame sensor and we asked him to upgrade our thermostat to a more reliable touchscreen model.  We also signed […]

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