I was watching the Olympics tonight, and I was presented with a pair of presidential election campaign ads. I noticed the standard “and I approve of this message” bit at the end and wondered if there was any good reason why they did that aside from the obligatory face-time that it provided. Two seconds with […]

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I really love the Olympics, for moments like what just happened in the Men’s 400 freestyle relay. That was incredible, and you’ve gotta love the underdogs pulling off a major upset! What really gets me this year is hearing the stories of people training their whole lives for events like this. I understand that mentality […]

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Thanks to the generosity of I returned this evening lousy with hostas. I had enough to ring our hydrangea and plant a big cluster of them on the other side of the garage by the downspout. We’ll have to manually water them and hope they settle ok, our sprinkler system won’t reach that far. It […]

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Unfortunately, our clethra bush is looking a little dried out and wilted. I water in the morning and after work, however it wasn’t doing the job. Tonight I decided to ratchet things up a bit and I purchased a soaker sprinkler system. It is this hose that has five sprinklers that you can position around […]

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When presented with the option of sorting through boxes and mowing the lawn, I voted for the lawn. Mowing the front yard went quickly enough, but the sidewalk was bothering me. Our sidewalk is pretty uneven, so riding over it with my riding lawnmower is not a good idea so I had a fair amount […]

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After a long night of getting caught up on work and some errands, I turned my attention to my Eee PC once again. Last night I succeeded in screwing up my Eee PC so badly that it wouldn’t even reboot. Luckily, my mad computer skills prevailed and I got the system restored once again. I […]

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Tonight we finally got our landscaping in! Nine new plants take the place of our four bushes, soon they will be joined with a handful of hostas courtesy of . Mulch will be added soon, and that job will be done! I’m tired, so I’m going to while away the rest of the evening playing […]

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Tonight Tasha and I decided to purchase a paper shredder so we can eliminate the giant piles of old mail that have accumulated in boxes, corners, and other locations inside our house. We go to Wal-Mart, pick out our oh-so-elegant cross cut paper shredder for the astonishing sum of $20 and check out. The thing […]

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Today I launched myself back into home repairs and yardwork, digging out the bed in front of my house that used to be home to our bushes. I dug out the area right next to our sidewalk with a quarter circle to meet the previously dug out area, and on the other end I made […]

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I have to say, once you figure out how to do things in Xandros living with the Eee PC is fantastically easy. I have installed the newest version of my Pidgin chat software, Firefox 3 optimized for the Eee, and the compiz fusion 3D desktop. Compiz is highly thought of in newer linux distributions because […]

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