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Monthly Archives: December 2008

Switching to Gas

The big heating element on our ancient electric range that came with the house has cut out twice in two days. Ugh, that’s gonna force us to get a new range. Many problems present themselves.
We want a gas range. Gas ranges SUCK in this country. Too weak. But, electric sucks worse.
Our house isn’t plumbed for [...]

Speakers

I got a couple of Polk Audio floor speakers for my birthday, and noticed something kinda odd. I gotta really crank my amplifier to get volume out of them. The amp goes from like -70db to 0db. With my old Klipsch multimedia speakers, -45db was pretty loud, but now I gotta go up to -35db [...]

Chains

I bought tire chains for the Odyssey from Amazon. Stupid-cheap compared with getting them from a brick-and-mortar auto parts store. They were almost half of what I paid for the chains for the Civic. Buying things from real stores sucks for so many things, I just didn’t think chains would be one of those things.

Cutting

I almost cut myself last night. I’m very careful with knives, and always pay tons of attention to what I’m doing, and go slow, because I really don’t like going to the ER. 
I was using an x-acto knife to cut this thick Ilford photo paper (trim the edges, and cut into four pieces). My method [...]