Married In Ohio

Our cable and Internet service went out on Monday afternoon. There were some relatively widespread outages in our service area; so, when we called it in, someone actually came out and worked on some of the equipment outside. Unfortunately he the cleared the outage without bothering to knock on the door and verify that the [...]

January Had an occasion to do the Snoopy Dance because of something that happened at work. Took a cool photograph of California Girl with the flowers she received at The Girl’s last senior night. We reviewed the proofs of The Girl’s senior photographs and made our selections. It was a bit discomforting how rapidly her [...]

A pressure gauge that reads 0 PSI is never a good thing; especially when it’s on the filter of your swimming pool. In this summer of (almost) everything mechanical that we own breaking, now it appears that there is a problem with the machinery of our pool. After almost 8 years, something was destined to [...]

The front tire on our riding mower was flat and couldn’t be patched or plugged in it so I ended up having to cut the lawn with the push mower on Saturday. That in itself wouldn’t have been so bad except the grass was thick/high and so I needed to overlap a lot to keep [...]

Today is a much better day than yesterday. When I went to be last night, the garage door wouldn’t go up because of a broken spring; the water in the pool was so cloudy that we couldn’t see the bottom; and whenever someone called on the telephone we could hear them; but they couldn’t hear [...]

For the fourth weekend in a row, I was on the road, this time to pick up The Boy from college. We’ve put a lot of miles on our vehicle recently and it’s not happy about it. We got stuck in heavy traffic on the way out and the engine started overheating. The coolant level [...]

I would rather have eaten another hairy, nasty bug that have yet another unexpected car repair. The only “good thing” is that the car died today rather than when we were on the road far from home the past two weekends. Unfortunately, that didn’t make the repair any cheaper. It was especially painful coming on [...]

Today was the first really warm day of the year. Which means it was also the first day that I attempted to use the air conditioner in the car. I say attempted because it was blowing air that was warmer than the temperature outside when I turned it on. So, instead of getting outside and [...]

Remember all of the problems we had with the smoke detector last month when I was cleaning the oven? Now the one upstairs in the master bedroom is acting up. A false alarm is a pain when it’s just the beeper in the smoke detector going off. It’s a gigantic nuisance when it’s wired into [...]

The rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated. Unfortunately, the demise of the video card in the kid’s computer is not. The cooling fan on the graphics card died which in turn caused the graphics CPU to overheat and burn out. It wasn’t very expensive when we purchased it two years ago; but our [...]