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At last we can agree.

September 27, 2011

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Lloyd and I both thought that the peach pulp would make some mighty fine popsicles. (He could eat popsicles for every meal.) I went looking at Wal*Mart for some of those plastic trays, but they didn’t have any. It’s my own fault for not shopping during the summer. I lucked out on an endcap, though. [...]

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Like the clapper without the clap

August 10, 2011

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I admit that I have a little of my mother in me. Actually, it’s hard not to admit it with Lauren always reminding me. She says that it’s not a bargain if you don’t need it. But I maintain that if it’s over 66% off, you can find some sort of use for it. These [...]

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Solder is a stupid word

April 18, 2011

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Lloyd is working on his little project that I’m pretending to be interested in because when he wanders around thinking and talking about it I can get him to do stuff for me. Lloyd: “See, if I can just get the protoromulator to spegork, then it will vortex at a greater speed.” Lauren: “That’s awesome. [...]

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Geekier than normal

April 15, 2011

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A few months ago some website let me know that the arduino was on sale along with a book: Getting Started with Arduino. I read the first few chapters of the book and looked very intently at the arduino, but that’s as far as I got for several months. Then, for some reason earlier this [...]

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Homemade Bed Fan

April 10, 2011

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Sometime in the middle of last week I came across a review of the BedFan. You should click the link and look at it – it’s pretty ingenious. It’s a fan that is made to channel cool air underneath your bedsheets so on sweltering nights (or if you get night sweats) you can sleep well. [...]

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New laptop!

April 7, 2011

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‘Cept it’s not! I was looking for some stuff at school and came across the last bit of the stripey contact paper that I love so very much. I initially drooled over it at Target in 2007, put it up in my entryway in 2008, and shortly thereafter put some up at school. Well, now [...]

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