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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DIY Homemade Craft Brush
I am working on making a latex mold for doing some resin castings, so I don’t want to use a good paint brush because I don’t need anything too nice, I don’t want to ruin the few that I have, and I am not 100% sure where they are, so it would take me a …
Home Made Chicken and Dumpling Soup
I made some home-made chicken and dumpling soup tonight. I started with some chicken stock left over from a canned chicken I had tried that I had froze. I added the veggies. I added the dumplings. Fairly simple – flour, some poultry seasoning, some parsly, some backing powder, and some water. I forgot the salt, but that …
My desk at work.
When I started work, I asked about getting a drafting table to use as a desk. They ordered one up for me! It’s not a real drafting table, but it’s actually better for what I am using it for. The only drawback is that it wasn’t tall enough that I could comfortabley use it standing up, …
Security Alarm
I had come across some very cheap (both in price and in quality) door and window alarms. Four for $4 at Menards. I saw them and thought, “oh, a housing and a reed switch.” Silly me… These things are quite cheaply made. No proper reed switch at all. Just a very cheap impersonation of one. …