We spent the weekend with friends in the Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Forest. I brought a plastic magnifying lens and we melted a penny. The quarter, as you can see, didn’t quite melt (nickel versus zinc) so I think I need a more rigid frame. [For legal reasons, none of this was done with the intent […]
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We went to the chocolate festival in Oakdale yesterday. For reasons unknown I spent most of today sleeping.
We (my new family) were at the park celebrating Mothers’ Day. This is the day when the guys sit around and wait for the women to serve up food. About the time we started eating, we saw at a group near us that there was a small propane cylinder in a ball of flame. This […]
It’s been raining so much, that my commute now looks like this. Link of the week: foshata!
I was tossing and turning in bed so, to help me wind down, I wrote letters to the companies that I haven’t got rebate checks from yet. I asked them for a written statement that my rebates were invalid, with specific dates and stores listed. It’ll be interesting to see if anything happens. (I also […]
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.
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!