Tag Archives: Personal Blather

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Well, my spacy day ended early. I got some quality work done, fixing a problem with the backups, troubleshooting a web server issue that turned out to be a client side issue and laying out a rush poster. I was doing ok until the helicopter fumes hit.
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I’ve got an amazing full-body ache going on. I was rather ill on Sunday, to the point where I was carrying around a tupperware container that I’d nicknamed “Mister Bucket” just in case I couldn’t make it to the bathroom before another bout of vomiting hit. In some of my less rational moments, I francofied his name to “M’ssr Bouquet.”
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Well, by this time my folks should be in New York helping my aunt Betty move her stuff to her new apartment. My fiancee drives a truck, so I know what it’s like to be asked to help when someone’s moving, but doing a cross-country schlep in a van from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to just north of NYC is quite a trek.
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I’m in a post-lunch turkey coma. Except it’s not really from the turkey. This gets all scientific and technical at the end, so if you want to just skip today’s entry I won’t blame you.
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A few entries ago I mentioned the medicine cabinet in my bathroom and how disappointed I would be if the former homeowners hadn’t used the ‘Razor Blade’ disposal slot.

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I’m doing a lot of scanning today, so I can take little breaks and do some occasional writing. Part of the reason it’s kind of slow is that it’s spring break, but another reason is that snowed a LOT over the weekend. Not many people are in. I was nice and cozy indoors, ripping the walls out of the bathroom, but we had a good four to six inches of snow piled up outside by the time I tried to get the tub out of the house.
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The cardiovascular center is doing some fundraising. As an incentive, you can name various parts of the buildings, if you donate enough.
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The more stuff I tear out of the bathroom, the more interesting things I learn about my house. The outer walls are insulated with cotton. Big battens of “Flame Pruf Cotton!” insulation from a company in Flint Michigan.
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Did some household archaeology last night during the bathroom demolition. The little linen closet in the bath used to just be an alcove. At some point, a previous homeowner put a little door in the alcove and nailed it in place to give the towels some privacy. Trouble is, they did kind of a half-assed job of it. The door frame was too small for the alcove, so they used wedges to hold it in place. This left a gap between the wall and the edge of the door frame where tiny toiletries could easily get lost.
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