Halloween might be my favorite holiday. You decorate your house and your yard, you get lots of candy, and it’s a nice chance to show off your boy to the neighborhood. You don’t have to drive to anyone else’s house and you’re not required to buy anything for anybody (aside from candy). The only problem is that...
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Since I finished BioShock twice, I decided that I should go back and finish the Transformers game. I beat the Autobot campaign a while back, but I was frustrated with the Decepticon campaign and subsequently found other stuff to do with my time. Scorponok was what did it for me — he’s slow and weak, easily the most...
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When we first bought our house, the circuit box in the garage was a fire hazard waiting to happen. It had no lid and wires were dangling out of it. We asked my Uncle Marve to clean it up, being a master electrician, and he found that the entire garage was a mess. Conduit had been added piecemeal over the years, several electric...
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The Highland Pop Warner Football Team went on a field trip to the Kregel Farms Pumpkin Patch this weekend. Aiden isn’t old enough to play football, but our neighbor’s son does, and they invited us along. However, it was rained the previous night and it was cloudy all day (threatening to rain again), so only a few...
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I got a call from the Sleep Clinic to schedule a return visit. They say that I have severe apnea, and wanted to schedule another night to monitor me while I wear a breathing device called a CPAP (see-pap). It turns out that my oxygen levels drop to 85% during the night, whereas 96% is good. The study shows that I have oxygenation...
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Chrissy and I might be the last people on earth who celebrate Sweetest Day. Sweetest Day usually falls on the third week in October, but the exact date can be unpredictable. We never really know each year until we check the calendar. Oddly, we treat this day as being almost as important as Valentine’s Day (we joke that Chrissy...
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The Transformers Movie came out on DVD on Tuesday, October 16th. There are two versions: a single-disc version with just the movie, and a two-disc version with the movie and an entire disc of extras. Many retailers are offering add-ins with the two-disc set. For example, Target has the world’s first transformable DVD case (it...
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The artist of an online comic that I read occaisionally posted a link to a book that he illustrated, Teddy Bear Dreams, on a web site called Wowio. I figured that I would check out the pictures of cute Teddy Bears, maybe send a link to Chrissy, and be done with it. But then I saw that Wowio allows you to download the book for free....
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