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Jury-Rigged or Jerry-Rigged Broken Broom Handle Repair?
I was out using the manual edger around our lawn today. When I finished that and started sweeping up the grass cuttings, my broom snapped off at the brush cap. The pole is a thin steel shaft and the end that fit into the cap of the brush was rusted through. After I finished sweeping…
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Two Vaccine Jabs in One Arm or One in Each Arm?
There were headlines about whether it’s better to get the flu shot and the Covid-19 updated booster in one arm or one in each. It doesn’t matter. Sena got both in one arm. Mine were split. I think it depended on the preference of the person giving the shots. The main thing is that you…
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Computer Crisis Progress Report
The title of this post is supposedly about progress toward fixing my Dell computer, the one with a mini-helicopter noise in the tower. The Tech drove to my house yesterday from Ouad Cities. He had the parts the Agents ordered for fixing the noise in my PC tower. The parts were wrong. He drove an…
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Look on the Bright Side
Yesterday was the first day of Autumn. Happy Autumn! Was that too cheerful? You know, I used to watch the show Monty Python’s Flying Circus years ago. I thought it was outrageously funny. What reminded me of the show was Sena telling me that on Wednesday night, a member of the Flying Circus cast, Eric…
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‘ay, this here be international talk like a gentleman o’ fortune day
The title of this post is a translation of “Hey, This is International Talk Like a Pirate Day.” I used a Pirate Speak translator to generate it. Sena reminded me about this holiday, which got started back in 1995 by a couple of guys from Albany, Oregon. She says she heard about it on the…
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Are Safety Matches Really Safe?
Sena likes scented candles. She lights them with the usual safety matches. They’re called safety matches because you can ignite them only by striking them against the side of the box in which the sticks (sometimes called splinters) are stored. Match splinter is an apt name. We found out the hard way that safety matches…
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The Geezer Survives Another Computer Disaster!
This is another gripe about computers. I had to reset Sena’s PC because I accidentally crashed it after trying to follow Dell’s YouTube video instructions for how to fix the problem that a lot of Dell computer owners are having: the inability to install or reinstall a piece of software called Dell SupportAssist. There’s another…
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GFCI Outlet Torture
There’s this exercise machine commercial which has actors ask “Do you want some more?” This is the usual exhortation letting you know more pain and torture is needed if you really want to get in shape. Well, replacing Ground Fault Circuit Interrupter (GFCI) outlets is one way you can get more torture—but only if you…
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Ever See Bigfoot Splooting?
I wonder if anyone ever got a picture of Bigfoot splooting? Why not? It’s a large furry animal which has no way of cooling off other than by panting or lying on its belly with its limbs splayed out, which is the definition of “splooting.” I found a news item about splooting squirrels and quickly…
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I Say Omicron and You Say Ahmicron
Well, we tried the Miracle Whip salad dressing on egg salad sandwiches the other day. I thought they tasted better than the tuna fish sandwiches we had before. But maybe it was the mustard in the egg salad. Anyway, Sena says we’ll be going back to Mayonnaise after the Miracle Whip is gone. The difference…
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