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CR-V Mileage

Our 2009 CR-V with AWD has gotten 31 mpg on the trip to work, but much less on the way home. I suspect the trip to work is downhill.

There are two Trip displays, A and B, with independent average mpg displays. Trip A is the one I reset to check short trips. Trip B I [...]

Lifesource Phone Spam

At work, I would get calls:

Voice Message 8884274836

At home, three times a night. Never leaving a messsage.

I Googled the phone number finally and found who: Lifesource blood services.

I logged in (easy) and turned off all my notifications. We’ll see if it works.

It's Hard to Be Legal - Sheet Music Edition

So I wanted to buy the sheet music for “Lust” by Tori Amos. I love the piano music and wanted to learn it – to play, not to sing.

I started with Google, found several music sites, and prepared to pay. Seems to be about $4.50. Ok, I can deal with that.

Started with I had purchased [...]

Burnt Teapot

So I started the teapot up today, and went downstairs to check one thing. Ten minutes later I came up and there was no whistle. After checking the teapot, there was no water.

With our old crappy teapot, I wouldn’t care. Let it cool down, whatever. Of course this teapot is a 19/10 stainless teapot from [...]

Welcome Sara

Our latest addition to the Chwalisz family of bloggers:

Our Other Sara(h) blogs about life, love and adventure on the Continent.

Adios D-Link USB Hub

Finally dumping my D-Link DSB-H4 USB powered hub. I think I got it for 10 bucks, and I think it worked for about 20 minutes. Then as soon as you plug something in, all the lights would go black and I would fear for my motherboard.

I just marked it with “US” and tossed it into [...]

Quicken 2009 R7

So got the online notice for Quicken 2009 that R7 is ready. I tried 4 times, got a “patching engine has failed” error. After some googling and using Filemon to find the log, and looking in the log, I found that one of the files was not being recognized as the correct version. Dead.

Today I [...]

Hamlets Blackberry-Why Paper Is Eternal

Hamlet’s Blackberry-Why Paper Is Eternal

Ted Kennedy 1932-2009

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Megawoosh

At work, someone sent this around: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMCqUimJmks

The most recent comment was the best

fistusfanius (2 hours ago)
The physic are all wrong, there’s no way he’d travel that far…

Anyone who knows basic physics knows that since the arc is similar on the down and upslopes and the height of the ramps is similar, that all the energy [...]