Why I Hate Air Travel: O’Hell Airport
Because I have to vent…
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Meatballs and tomato sauce
When I wasn’t enjoying the fine arsenal last year at my dad’s house, I was hanging around the kitchen savoring his meatball sandwiches. I had the opportunity yesterday to make them here last night. The recipe is fairly simple, relying on long, slow-cooking to blend the flavors. When my dad makes it, he’ll start the
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Polar bear plunge
In Friday’s Seattle Times there was a brief mention of the Polar Bears‘ annual plunge into the chilly waters around Puget Sound. Since I’m a bachelor this week, I figured why the heck not and casually mentioned this to a coworker who offered to come take pictures of the nuttiness my wife would be missing.
A $255 death benefit?
On alternate years, the Social Security Administration sends me a statement estimating various theoretical payouts should I retire or die. I showed up in their system in 1981, when I made a cool $1,337 working in the local grocery store bakery after school. Like Susan, some of my compensation was under-the-table (the forms required to
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Happy winter solstice
Yeah, I know it’s only three seconds, but at the trend is positive. Soon, perhaps as early as March, I’ll be able to bike to work in the daylight!
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Engineering plans for Christmas
You may have seen this funny engineering depiction of a home designed for Santa. Here’s what an actual engineer had to say: I checked the drawing for accuracy and noticed the following: There is ADA accessible signage on the roof, but no ADA compliant roof access. 1/4 kip tree stand loading spec seems excessive unless
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Impress her… not
A “Joe-Job” is when a spammer sends out thousands of emails, masquerading as someone else. When the (334) emails bounce or (three) people respond, it comes to the lucky joe-jobbee, e.g. me. The deluge of mail headers this morning suggest distributed spammery, so I’m not even going to bother with firing off futile requests to
Gas versus Electric Dryer II
Last night I got my utility bill and Holy Moly, it’s more than double last month’s thanks to a colder-than-normal month and an increase in utility rates. (Hey, Fed, I found your inflation.) Anyway, there has been a lot of interest in my previous musings on the ongoing cost tradeoffs of gas versus electric dryers.
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