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My wife and I survived the day of babysitting. We had two sisters, aged 5 and 6, to look after for the day. We're very fond of them so we don't mind keeping them so their mom can go to work. I concluded getting a sawzall blade behind my baseboard is an exercise in futility because a 9" blade...

I got myself a pet termite. I'm calling him Clint. Clint Eatswood.

I got my air conditioning filters cleaned. I tried using a vacuum cleaner on them but it didn't work as well as I hoped so I took them outside and gave them a good spray with an air compressor. It blew some dust out of them and when the dust stopped blowing they were visibly cleaner again...

I mentioned a situation in the thread a couple of months back. It's still premature to post details on a public board but things have been progressing well so far. I'm hoping everything will wrap up in the way everybody is hoping, probably next month, but never say no to extra prayers that we...

Not at my current church, although the pastor has invited us for dinner. (We've only been going a few months so far). At my previous church we had the pastor and his wife for dinner. At the church before that, before we moved, we had dinner with the pastor and his wife fairly regularly.

Not such a fun job this afternoon. The bathroom sink was blocked. Usually it's a simple fix, nothing more than removing the U-trap underneath it and cleaning the plughole out. This time that didn't work, it turned out the blockage was in the pipe under the floor. In the process of cleaning the...

Very much so. It's remarkable how a long walk can clear my thoughts and bring things into focus. A long walk in the woods is even better, but in this heat the mountains are a bit strenuous. And a long walk takes away the regular distractions of being at home. My wife and I also found that a...

They definitely aren't all bad, our current doctor is perfectly willing to focus on lifestyle changes before medication. It's just that one particular doctor I never plan to visit again.

Fun couple of days. Yesterday I went for a long walk with my wife and had a long talk while we were walking. Then we decided to clear out a few things that we'd been keeping as a kinda-sorta-reminder of part of our life from a few years ago. But it seemed they were causing problems, so I took...

I had a few words with him on the followup appointment, and made a mental note that I'd rather not see a doctor at all than ever darken his door again.

My wife once saw a stand-in doctor who saw a few of her blood numbers were very marginally outside ideal boundaries and wanted to put her on several medications to manage these "conditions". He even took me to task for questioning whether it was really necessary. When our regular doctor was back...

Our Staples is about the same distance. It's a bit of a drag but we're in town often enough that we can work with it. Usually the printer gives enough notice that the ink is low I have several weeks (usually several months) before hitting a crunch point with the ink. And a cartridge won't go bad...

I have three - the one I use for most purchases with the highest credit limit, another one I got for my wife because we wanted to get her credit rating up higher than it would go being an additional user on my account, and another one I virtually never use but serves a very specific purpose. I...

Taking it a bit easier this morning. To do my work on the floor I had to move another cast iron radiator, and I think I twisted awkwardly with it because my back has a slight ache. I'm not sure if I moved awkwardly when shifting the radiator, or it was just a lot of getting up and down fiddling...

Do you have a nearby Staples, or can you get it online? I had to buy color cartridges for my laser recently. Not a pretty bill, but the cartridges had lasted me 9 years so I can't complain too much. I got mine from Staples, on the basis I could walk in and walk out with them rather than waiting...