Category: money pit
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Hello, Apple TV! Goodbye $2600!
Chuck and I pre-ordered an Apple TV right after MacWorld back in January, and it finally arrived late last week. We had already received and set up a new 802.11n base station (and it is a VAST improvement over their earlier models, for anybody who’s pondering a switch or upgrade). We plugged it in and…
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Not only can you never be too rich or too thin…
…You can never have too big a plasma TV. We have had a 42 inch plasma TV in the living room for three years now and from the day we bought it I could see that Chuck thought it was a bit small. At the time, 50 inch plasma TVs were pretty expensive, so I…
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O brave new world, that has such wonders in it!
So it’s happened – we have new toilets! The guys arrived at about 10am and by noon, we had new johns! They stuck a camera down our pipes before installing the Totos, to see if we had any pipe problems that could have been causing the clogging, but happily there was nothing. The old toilets…
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A tale of two toilets
Huge news on the O’Shea toilet front: the two upstairs toilets have officially crapped out (pun totally intended). You know what this means?!? YES!!!! TOTO TOILETS!!!! We are going G-MAX to the limit! How cool are we? I couldn’t talk Chuck into going all the way and getting the MP3 player and the remote control,…
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Gravity is a bitch
Hi, I’m Eileen. I’m a spaz. There, I’ve admitted it. I have been clumsy from birth as far as I know (apochryphal family stories have me tripping on the umbilical cord on the way out of my mother’s womb onto the floor. But there’s no proof this actually occurred). I have been walking into walls,…
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Another brick in the wall
We spent this past Sunday gardening. Even as I type this it feels weird. Gardening was, oh I don’t know, number five on the list of Ten Things I Never Thought I’d be Doing on a Sunday not so many years ago. Life always surprises you. Anyway, we spent the day planting rose bushes, spider…
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