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This Is How It Is

August 16th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Home |

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No Right Angles

August 2nd, 2010 | 0 Comments | Home |

I guess my house is old enough to meet that stan­dard. The kitchen mini-renovation goes on, with a few twists…

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Yard Sale Part 2; Kitchen Renovation Part 2

July 31st, 2010 | 0 Comments | Home |

Simul­ta­ne­ously!

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A Little Chaotic

July 30th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Home |

Things are crazy today. It’s Day One of our yard sale, and my kitchen con­trac­tor arrived to start replac­ing the coun­ter­tops and floor.

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Yard Sale 2010

July 29th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Home |

We’re clean­ing out the attic and the base­ment. And the shed and the kitchen. And a few of the bed­rooms. Come on down this Fri­day and Sat­ur­day and take away some of our fine pos­ses­sions — in exchange for your cash, of course.

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31 Years Ago

July 27th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Home |

July 27, 1979: I moved to New York City from my hum­ble birth­place of Cleve­land, Ohio. I go back to north­ern Ohio reg­u­larly, and still know my way around. In some ways I feel like I left a few weeks ago; in other ways, like I never lived there at all. Between apart­ments in Man­hat­tan and Brooklyn […]

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What Time Is Your Appointment Again? The Fateful Day For My FIOS Installation

July 23rd, 2010 | 0 Comments | Home, Tech Stuff |

Con­tin­ued live­blog­ging of today’s long (loon­nggg) delayed installation.

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Stained Glass Repaired!

July 22nd, 2010 | 5 Comments | Home |

At last!

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Thank You For Waiting: My FIOS Installation Drama Continues

July 21st, 2010 | 0 Comments | Home, Tech Stuff |

Despite my ear­lier rant, I decided to give Ver­i­zon another shot at installing the FIOS ser­vice. After all, it could save me $60–80 a month — money that I could cer­tainly use.

Fol­low­ing is the tragi-comic run­down of how it went down. How much patience do I really have? We’ll see — they can’t get it done today, we’ll try again Fri­day afternoon.

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America’s Silliest Governor?

July 20th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Home, Politics |

The pro­posal would mean pay cuts for 366 super­in­ten­dents at the end of their con­tracts, sav­ing school dis­tricts $9.8 million.

Which if you do the math is about a buck-and-a-quarter for every man, woman and child in the great state of New Jer­sey, per year.

I can hardly wait to start spend­ing a wind­fall like that.

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Feeling Old

May 10th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Home, Travelogues |

Here’s The Daugh­ter, Sun­day morn­ing when I took her to the air­port. She’s tak­ing her first-ever vaca­tion with­out one of the ‘rents, hav­ing made all the arrange­ments and reser­va­tions her­self. I feel older, but proud of her.

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Wisteria

May 7th, 2010 | 0 Comments | Home |

I love my wis­te­ria, which put on an amaz­ing show this spring. But if I don’t keep after it, it will absolutely stran­gle me in my sleep.

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