It’s never fun when your computer starts to fall apart. Mine has been running fairly well for about five years, so it was about due for some grief. A loud whirring noise started coming out of my computer, which is usually a loose fan. It was the video card, with its tiny cooling fan. I took the card out to clean the...
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Chrissy bought a new ten-gallon fish frog tank for our surviving frog, Ariel. It came as a set with a water filter, a lighted hood and everything that it needs. She only dropped it once. On the concrete. One trip back to the pet store later, we now have a new frog habitat. Aiden picked out some Fruity Pebbles-colored gravel...
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Gavin went to a few houses during Halloween last year, but wasn’t really old enough to get the full trick-or-treating experience. We weren’t sure how he would handle it this year. But he’s a stubborn little guy, and determined to do whatever his older brother can do. Chrissy and I decided that the best thing...
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We got two frogs for Aiden and Gavin. They lived in a habitat of two plastic boxes connected by two plastic tubes. Xiao-Ai had been taking an interest in the habitat, however, and she had already eaten two fish from that same shelf. So, we wanted to get them a larger tank that would be less susceptible to falling over. We were...
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October is fire prevention month, so we have seen a lots of firefighters lately. The local fire departments have been holding open houses on the weekends, and we have taken the boys to a bunch of them. Early in the month, we went to the Schererville Fire Department Open House at the Tri-Town Safety Village by AMC theaters....
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It used to be that the best science fiction shows on television would all air on the same night on the same channel: “Sci-Fi Friday”. This is what the Sci-Fi Channel (now the more trademarkable “SyFy”) called their Friday night lineup. Many of our favorite shows, like Farscape, Stargate SG1, Doctor Who...
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Our dishwasher has been flaky for the past six months, but it finally crapped out on us. The door had rusted into the controls, and replacing it would be costly. It was short notice, but we knew where to buy a new one. For the last ten years, Nason’s Appliances has always given us great deals, and they throw in delivery...
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