We just recently purchased a water heater from Lowe's. We showed up on tax-free weekend knowing only that our water heater was gas, we probably only needed 40 gallons instead of the current 50, and we'd like something with a good warranty and energy efficiency. We told the sales people that we weren't experienced and needed help.The salesfolks told ( Read more... )

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I now find myself in possession of a yard, and my thoughts have inevitably turned to making it more interesting. In particular, since I have not inherited either my mother's green thumb (her garden is currently the most remarkably lovely jungle, despite being in NJ) or her love of spending hours on my knees in the dirt, I would like ( Read more... )

I finally got around to reading Poul Anderson's Boat of a Million Years this weekend, and it has reminded me that I missed most of ancient history in school due to poor teaching and poor timing. I've picked up a reasonable amount here and there ("Everything I Know About History I Learned from the Metropolitan Museum of Art" could be a pretty thick ( Read more... )

...maybe some of you will be interested in this. My (wonderful) former martial arts teacher also does fight ( Read more... )

It's been an overly exciting week. But I'm too busy to blog about it. So instead, the results of my latest experiment ( Read more... )

We're back. We're in the new house, with many many boxes. Nothing seems to have gone terribly wrong, although the previous owners left us a few annoying messes. And we now have net again. We should be back to something approaching normality after another week or two of unpacking. (20 boxes down, 100 to go.... but half of that is the library, which ( Read more... )

Well, not really tomorrow, but I have an odd kind of problem. When packing up the kitchen, I rediscovered my marvelous collection of jams, jellies, preserves, and butters. I *love* good preserves, and I've been getting them for stocking stuffers, hostess gifts, souvenirs, and just plain presents for several years. Unfortunately, I've been trying to ( Read more... )

We're moving in just over three weeks. (Eek!) It looks like we probably won't be having a formal moving mob, since crossing the 50-box line leads us to think movers are the Right Answer. We will, however, have a bunch of furniture and generally useful items that we don't want to take with us. Most of it it is perfectly good, but not what we want ( Read more... )

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