My House, My House, My House is on fire!

Last weekend, somebody decided to try to burn my apartment complex down. Actually, it was a smoker who missed the ash tray. Went, and fell into the bush, and by the time he got his glass of water to put it out, he needed a truckload of water. The heat blistered all of the siding. …

I suck at driving

No, no accidents, but I just was wandering around in circles in the twin cities yesterday. I am going to blame breakfast. We stopped at McDonalds drive through. The guy took our order, then came back and asked if the one thing we wanted was steak or sausage. I told him I wanted the cheaper …

Tearing down a 75 gallon tank to clean up water

My Overflow box strikes again! This thing is the bane of my carpeting! This time, it caused a flood in a different way. The drain tubes fell out of the tank. They stayed put for over a month, then fell out twice within 6 hours. I don’t get it. Trying to dry out under the …

The trouble with water

The trouble with water is that it likes the lowest point it can find. In my case, it’s the carpeted floor. I am struggling with the overflow box. I found a small pin hole in the top part of the siphon. This only showed when the hole was dry. I guess when it was wet, …

Cancelled my phone numbers

I have been a Packet8 VOIP customer for nearly 5 years now. Today I canceled my account. Why? About a year ago, I started getting spam on the email address I used to register with them. It was a single-use email address. I only gave it to them. I was a happy customer up until …

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