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Snowblower Tech Support

You might be sur­prised at what you can fig­ure out about your snow­blower if you try. My level of mechan­i­cal exper­tise is a mod­er­ately com­plex Lego set, and yet I was able to diag­nose & fix a prob­lem with our snow blower ear­lier this win­ter.
The trick is to ignore the fact that you don’t […]

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Do You Game?

I used to love FPS games; but as I’ve got­ten older, I’ve lost most of my taste for them. Prob­a­bly because my reac­tion time is down and I’ve had less spare cash for PC upgrades to be able to run mod­ern FPS games.
I’m also a bit cheap so I don’t tend to go for the […]

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Howdy

Howdy.  Yes, we’re here.  Yes, we’re vot­ing.  Yes, we voted with hope in our hearts and change on our minds.  We’re now look­ing for­ward to Pres­i­dent Obama tak­ing his office.  Thanks for call­ing.
In response to Call­ing Mid­dle Amer­ica, Are You There?

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Sweet Tea is an Abomination

Speak­ing as one who has lived in both the North and the South, I can hon­estly say sweat tea is an unholy abom­i­na­tion. Unfor­tu­nately, the fur­ther one goes South the more likely it is you’ll get sweet­ened tea if you do not specif­i­cally order unsweet­ened tea. In some hea­then lands of the South, there are […]

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–4 and heav­ily over­cast here in Iowa. I could see a smudge of lighter col­ored clouds but that was it. *sigh* I guess I’ll be try­ing again in 2010.
In response to Shaky Eclipse by John Scalzi.

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