Category: General
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A farewell and some hellos
We are now a single car family. Err “family.” We knew we didn’t need two cars here, left hers in VA (sold a few months ago) and have been getting around in the GTI ever since. Except only I really got around in it. The manual transmission bit wasn’t in the cards for Mrs. Heather,
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A Follow-up to “How Verizon Scammed Me”
Initial post. This all occurred many months ago, but my frequent writing also ended around that time. I followed the advice that I received via comment and contacted Verizon’s legal group (they have an address if you dig around for it) to notify them I was taking them to small claims court. Within a day
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Long time, no post
Sorry about that. This home ownership thing has been keeping me pretty busy. I won’t bore you with the million little things I’ve done over the past months as a homeowner, but will instead hit the highlights with no detail. Fixed a leaking washer pump, replumbed our kitchen drain stack with a vent and installed
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2013 Year in Review
Another good one in the books. Facebook has a decent version of my year, which contains pictures (think: fun). Goals. I set them a bit differently this time around and despite a few setbacks, all went pretty well. Less pressure to get things done, but I still managed to do better. Green = accomplished, orange = unobtainable, red = failed. Find a place
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How Verizon scammed me to make a sale
Ever have one of those door-to-door cable (I know, it’s not cable, it’s fiber) salesmen come to your door hoping to change your provider? This happened to me three months prior to moving across the country. I dismissed the salesman originally by telling him I was about to move and the savings would have to
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Ten pro tips for bloggers
I’ve now been “blogging” for about 15 years. I’m still not particularly good at it, but I’ve resigned myself to the fact that this will merely serve as my digital memoirs. I won’t get rich off it, I may never write a massively successful piece, but many years after I’m gone, hopefully these bits will