What the heck... I've been keeping a photo journal chronicling the building of our new house. These are just a few - the rest are up Here.


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... of the dirt kind.
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Hello again all. The seasons have changed (three or four times this weekend alone), so it's time for another LJ update.

We are building a house! Ok, someone else it building a house for us, but it's close enough.
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For those of you keeping track, here is a list of items that have not had to be replaced/repaired on my "factory certified" Jaguar:

• Right rear passenger door release.
  
• Hood ornament.
  
• Carpet in the trunk.
  

Sometimes it's better to reflect on the good things.

A bit of history. So far, the Jag has been great, With a couple of notable exceptions. The windows fog up. A lot. A bit of searching on the Internet led me to a faulty recirculation door (the plastic flap the controls whether the heater is pull air from outside or inside the car. Mine is stuck in the [INSIDE] position.

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This is the best How Stuff Works article ever!

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New wheels.

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I can usually catch the weather forecast on the local NPR station, WCPN. I listen to this radio station religiously, so I found it ironic that normal news and programming were supplanted by WPOP, all dead pope, all the time. If I were a more pious man, or even, say, Christian, I might say that my irreverence played into the events that followed ( Read more... )