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Wisconsin Cribbage Board Arrives
We got the Wisconsin state map cribbage board yesterday and there’s a little story behind it, right off the bat. It was delivered by the United States Postal Service (USPS) and I remember the slap as it hit our porch from the USPS worker just tossing the package. When we opened the package, it turned…
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Scrabble Babble
The other day Sena and I played a close game of scrabble—close that is until I challenged her play of the word “Xi.” I lost a turn because in our brand spanking new Scrabble dictionary it’s defined as a Greek letter. Later, I knew better than to challenge her play of “Ka,” which I looked…
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Musing on Coincidences
We’re waiting for another state road map cribbage board, this one is Wisconsin. If you’ve seen the cribbage game video we made, “Pegging Around Iowa,” you get the idea. We’ve been to Wisconsin, briefly. It’s a complicated story. It was roughly 13 years ago. We moved to Madison so I could make another stab at…
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We Hung a Wall Clock and Survived
Today Sena and I hung a wall clock. It was not just any wall clock. We got tired of hearing the darn ticking noise on our old clock. Sena got a non-ticking silent wall clock made by a company called Plumeet. I could not find a video that showed exactly how you use the provided…
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Knock Down Furniture Will Knock You Down
There are many names for ready-to-assemble furniture, including flat pack furniture, or knock down furniture. We’ve never bought IKEA furniture, but it’s the same kind of thing and there are a ton of memes about it. I kind of like the name “knock down furniture” because it best explains how we feel sometimes after we’ve…
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Greenhorn Green Screen
Yesterday, the Elgato Green Screen arrived and unboxing took longer than deploying the green screen itself, which just pulls up and pushes back down into its case. You can see how it works on my YouTube channel. I had to update this post this morning when Sena reminded me that today is St. Patrick’s Day!…
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Mydriatic Madness
I got my eyes examined yesterday. They put mydriatic drops in like they usually do. It’s been a while since my last exam. I remember a long time ago the eye clinics used to give you a free pair of those flimsy paper sunglasses to cut down on the glare and blurriness. I see them…
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Green Shirt Green Screen
In a couple of days, I’m going to get a green screen delivered. I hope it works to create special photo and video effects I wouldn’t otherwise be able to pull off—unless I used an old green shirt like I did for the chicken wishbone video. The wishbone is obviously way out of scale compared…
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Watch Yourself
I watch the Weather Channel TV shows Highway Thru Hell and Heavy Rescue 401 and I hear a lot of the towing guys say “Watch yourself!” Often, they say this as they’re about to pull a jack knifed semi out of a ditch. Sometimes a rigging line breaks and a large hook will snap back…
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The Ultimate Chicken Wishbone Pull
We’ve had this chicken wishbone on our kitchen counter for 3 days and we decided that was long enough to let it dry out. We’ve done this wishbone tug-of-war before and I won. Sena wanted a rematch and make it official. It’s legal to do the wishbone pull contest with a chicken furcula (the anatomically…
