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Plumb Fun

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Thanks to the loverly weather we’ve been hav­ing in Iowa, our house is hav­ing some plumb­ing issues. The sub­zero tem­per­a­tures caused the sup­ply line pipes to our down­stairs tub to freeze, but for­tu­nately not burst. Unfor­tu­nately, when they thawed a bit it freed up some of the years of lime/calcium/crud in the pipes. The build-up […]

Tags: home-ownership, plumbing, repair

Read more | Comments (4) | Jan 17, 2009

Windows Heck

Posted by Mark | Filed under Computers, Life, Software

On Easter Sun­day, my wife and I went to her sister’s for lunch1. While we were there, the rel­a­tives sprang a cou­ple of bro­ken com­put­ers on me ask­ing me to fix them2. Since we were get­ting really good grub3, I fig­ured I could at least take a look. Of course, nei­ther per­son with a broken […]

Tags: family, repair, sysadmin, windows

Read more | Comments (0) | Apr 14, 2007

Trying to lose my business? (Part 2)

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Rants

Per­haps I am old-fashioned but I feel when you say you are going to do some­thing, then you should do it. Case in point, this morn­ing I dropped the car off at the deal­er­ship to get that shift­ing prob­lem fixed. I dropped it off at approx­i­mately 7:45 AM CST (-06:00 GMT). My appoint­ment to have […]

Tags: email, home, problem, repair, Software, VW

Read more | Comments (2) | Jun 26, 2006

I’m baaaack!

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life, Quizzes

My inter­net con­nec­tion went down over the week­end and I ended up tak­ing a half-day of vaca­tion so I could be around for my appoint­ment with the repair guy from 1–5. *grumpf* Why can’t they make appoint­ments like nor­mal peo­ple (e.g. 3–4)? Any­ways, as you can see my inter­net con­nec­tion has finally been fixed and […]

Tags: email, HAL, Quiz, reading, repair, vacation, weekend, writing

Read more | Comments (0) | Apr 18, 2005

Saturday

Posted by Mark | Filed under Life

Nor­mally given the choice, I will sleep bliss­fully through all of Sat­ur­day morn­ing, aris­ing from the depths of my slum­ber only when the morn­ing has past. Unfor­tu­nately, I’d got­ten stuck at work Fri­day night till nearly 7 and so I couldn’t get the rent paid the night before. Since rent must be paid within 3 […]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Jul 4, 2004