Turns out that I had a lot of very uninteresting quarters (Delaware mostly) in my interesting quarter collection. They’re now joining Sara’s collection which gets CoinStared fairly regularly.
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Now that painting is over, we’ve sorted the paint cans and can recycle them. As soon as the recycler get empty enough, anyway.
We’re upgrading out our blinds. Apparently vinyl is only 7c/pound on the recycling market, so it’s not worth anyone’s time to drive out to a recycler. The fabric gets recycled though; so we separated it, and made a big shaggy lump.
For no particular reason, I adopted a virtual pet today. Please feed.
I am now caught up on ironing. From December! Next thing you know I’ll be washing the windows. From 2003!
Things are slowly returning to “normal”. My ironing pile is decreasing, the laundry is mostly up to date, I finally took my suit to the cleaners, the painters are almost done (as they have been for a while). And I’ve started building the media room screen. This is not to be confused with the bookshelves, […]
Yay! My wonderful wife found me an Xbox 360 so I’ve been playing PGR3 most of the weekend. (Or Project Gotham Loading as it should be called; seeing as I spend more time waiting for things to load than actually racing.) It’s really nice. Two minor issues: I couldn’t recover my old Xbox Live gamertag, […]
We’re finally getting round to clearing some of the garage stuff. Good news! Found chocolate. We also had quite a lot of baubles.
So I was in CompUSA yesterday (I needed some 2c stamps—yes really). They had an Xbox 360 demo set up, with Xbox boxes all around the place showing prices, and a large stall with Xbox peripherals and games. The big TVs in the back of the stores were showing Xbox commercials. Could I buy an […]
I now have a green card, and am a permanent resident in the U.S.. (The ER-1 application went much faster than expected; although the expectation was for it to be excruciatingly slow.) Sara and I celebrated by eating expensive food last night. We also got wedding photos back today….