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Thursday, August 01, 2002 |
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Final update on the Funky Amazon URLs. The extra hash from my home PC is the same as it was a couple of days ago. I just wiped out all of the cookies on my machine. Now it's 103-6295626-9570229. Deleted them again: 103-3195233-8521434.
Hmm. Curious. |
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Op/Ed piece from the local paper. Of course, it's late Thursday night, and this is for Friday's paper, so I'll have to make sure to buy a copy with coffee in the morning: The White House should accept the House's judgment and let the half-baked concept of Operation TIPS remain in the congressional trash bin where it belongs. 11:37:20 PM 
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Sure, sure, chopping an onion is very simple. Just get a sharp knife and a cutting board. Slice parallel lines between where the root and stem used to be, creating nice circular wedges. Stack the circles. Cut again, maybe even criss-crossing. Wipe your tears and a joke about how onions always make you sad. Or you could make it surprisingly easier, and with no more tears.
Cut off the top. Holding the onion by the root, make numerous slices from the top to the root end, stopping just before the root. Cut as many as you want. The onion will stay together, since the root still holds it all together. When you've finished with that, then make your standard onion-cutting cuts, perpendicular to the cuts you've just made. Presto Magico! Instant chopped onions. |
 It's a good sign when your eldest daughter starts picking books that you bought for her years ago, partly because you thought she'd like them at some point, but mostly because you thought they were pretty cool. They've been collecting dust for years. There are much more popular books in the shelves. Books that have accompanying dolls, or movies. It's been a good run the past three nights.
10:17:40 PM
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I'd like to think I learned a few things from the A/C fiasco. So when the bathtub was draining slowly a couple of days ago, I took some preventative measures. Last night, after the girls' bath, it was extremely slow, but some heavy duty plunging cleared it up okay. This morning left a few inches of standing water after both showers. I'd already planned some corrective action. I knew where to look for trouble, and had already eliminated a couple of possibilities. During the day, I called the plumber anyway, and scheduled an appointment for first thing tomorrow morning. Got home. The standing water was still standing. Poured some wicked strong draino down the pipe and let it set for half an hour. More plunging. Unscrewed the doohicky, pulled apart the thingmabob, snaked around the drain some more. Still nothing. There go my options.
But we'll still have an expert coming in the morning. Net result? I had the opportunity to solve the problem from a couple of different angles (pounds chest, grunts, puts tools neatly away), and the family will have the services of the bathtub over the weekend. I think that's what they call a "win-win" scenario. |
Last update: 8/17/2002; 5:07:10 PM .
