This post is just to test some new functionality I’m trying to get in place for another blog. If you want to test email subscriptions to comments, please post a comment below and make sure to select the checkbox at the bottom marked “Notify me of followup comments via e-mail”. No tag for this post.

Last fall I sold my duplex and moved in with my partner, her partner, and their kids. It’s a small house but in a very nice neighborhood and while I miss many of the things about living alone it is really nice to be living with family again. One of the downsides of moving into [...]

As part of my moving effort I am culling things like books and clothes, but I also need to trim down my game collection. If you would like any of the following games, please contact me before 9/25/2009. I am not willing to ship and you must be willing to pick up in South Minneapolis. [...]

Had been intending to post this for awhile, but I’ll just clip down a bit and get this chunk out there at least. In the last big snowstorm I ended up with a pretty hefty ding and honestly had a great experience with Progressive getting it repaired. The whole thing was fast, easy, and relatively [...]

The “Fail Whale” appears A single request repeats Refresh. Refresh. Sigh. No tag for this post.

On one of the mailing lists that I am on there are occasional requests for consultants or work-for-hire type jobs. This morning I saw one that looked vaguely interesting until I got to the second paragraph, reprinted here for your enjoyment: Our environment is a bit unusual, so you have to be willing to help [...]

To those of you with my home telephone number I will be disconnecting that line sometime this week most likely permanently. Due to the kindness of a good friend I’ve got a free cell phone for quite awhile and now that the Minneapolis Municipal WiFi is working great I have no need of DSL service [...]

Thank goodness for the FAQ at TDiClub. Last week-ish the glowplug light in my 2003 VW Golf TDi started flashing but performance didn’t seem to be effected at all and the car was starting fine and everything seemed kosher so I figured it could wait to get taken care of. Last night on the way [...]

I just got a telemarketing call from the organization that calls itself “Americans for Balanced Energy Choices”, asking me if I would like to join their organization for free and they won’t even ever ask for any donations. I don’t know if I’m the only one, and I certainly hope I’m not, but anytime a [...]

I just got off the phone with a very nice person from the Wells Fargo Fraud department who wanted to ask me some questions about some apparantly suspicious charges that were trying to come through on my checking account. Apparantly some nefarious person was attempting to buy software from Germany! Oops, that was me. And [...]