I’ve named it “HAL”. Nest Learning Thermostat – 2nd Generation T200577 It can definitely beat out regular thermostats and I’m pretty sure it can outdo your programmable thermostat if you’re relatively active (in and out, temperature up and down a lot) or even if your schedule varies day by day. Between the “airwave” technology that … Continue reading Installed “The Nest” today…
You know how, through confirmation bias, you will believe something is true even though it objectively is not? For myself, one of these beliefs was that I was receiving hundreds and hundreds of credit card solicitations a year. It seemed that every second day there were two or three of these pieces of junk mail … Continue reading One Year of Credit Card Solicitations
It took a while to decide what we wanted to do with our lawn after the pool / patio project. The original lawn had heave issues, scarring from a water main replacement and was generally a mish-mash of unhappy fescue, crab crass, creeping Charlie and dead spots. Having a mini mountain of earth piled on … Continue reading 2012 Home Renovations – Part 33 – Landscaping
So I had a pool installed this year. The pool opened on Memorial day and all was good. Included in the pool was something I’ve been working toward for about 10 years, an Endless Pool system. This particular system is called a “Fastlane” and it’s intended to be installed in a normal pool. i.e. the … Continue reading Endless Pool Fastlane in a Salt Water Pool – Issue
There is almost always more than one way to solve a problem. FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments via Parenting Fails: Karate KICK!.
I absolutely am in this camp. To this day I still get fooled by those evil-doers who bring these things to parties. I mean, what are they thinking? FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments via WIN!: Wisdom WIN.
Seriously, I can’t tell you how long it took me to figure this one out… This is Photobomb via When You See It.
Finally a tissue box that makes some kind of sense! FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments via WIN!: Tissue Box WIN.
This needs one more column for Canada: Hockey – which would be almost the equivalent of the non-US football column. And yes, I would also subscribe to that twitter feed (in the hover). xkcd.com via Sports Cheat Sheet.
Maybe *this* is why you want two parents – good cop, bad cop? Seriously, both genders can be a little over the top on their forte, having both extremes can provide the balance that kids need. FAIL Blog: Pictures and Videos of Owned, Pwnd and Fail Moments via Parenting Fails: A Well-Rounded Upbringing.
