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Wow, 200th Post!
I’ve been watching the post counter in my WordPress dashboard ticking up. Today is post number 200! Even though it took a while (about 2 and half years), I’m still pretty surprised I’ve stuck with it this long. Good time to catch up on some of my previous ramblings: Running My battle to get my…
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I Just Wanna Watch TV (part 33)
Tuesday, I hit up my local Best Buy on the way home from work. I headed over to the service counter and talked with a rep. I explained the situation. She disappeared for a bit to talk to a manager and promptly returned. She asked if I had selected a replacement TV yet. I said…
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What the? Strange Icon for XLS…
Recently, I was downloading an excel file in Firefox on Mac. In the download manager, I got this strange looking jack-in-the-box icon: Strange, indeed. Never saw that for any other downloads. At first I thought it was just because my Mac didn’t know what an XLS file is. But, then I remembered that I still…
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I Just Wanna Watch TV (part 32)
Hmm, been a few more weeks. Time for another update! Last time, the TV guy came over tried to install the part he thought was causing the problem. After a bunch of screwing around under the hood, it seemed to work ok, but died right as he was leaving. He said he was gonna report…
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Dealer Courtesy Calls
So, Monday morning, the check engine light in my car was still lit up. Figured rather than blow something up, I’d better go get it checked out again. I left them my car for the day. About 4 o’clock, I gave them a ring, as I hadn’t heard anything from them all day. They said…
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Everything is Broken…
With the TV still being a problem, now my car is giving me fits. In the background, I hear the Long John Hunter song Everything’s Broken playing over and over again. Wednesday morning, it was about 4 degrees out when I wanted to leave for work. There was a little snow on the car, so…