Back on Wednesday, April 21, our four year-old front-loading Sears Kenmore Elite HE4t washer broke. It was in the final spin cycle and somehow got unbalanced which caused the inner tub to spin erratically. It made a loud grinding/squealing noise and then stopped with an F06 diagnostic code. I called Sears customer support and was …
While driving home from work this evening I had my iPhone on a random playlist and these two songs played back-to-back: “Pretty Fly for a Rabbi” by Weird Al Yankovic and “Possum Kingdom” by the Toadies. Ok, yes, an interesting combination but that’s to be expected in a random playlist. What caught my eye was …
My hometown of Cleveland, OH is finally a winner … a recent Forbes article named it the number one most miserable city, edging out last year’s reining champion, Stockton, CA. Hoping to continue Cleveland’s championship year in 2010, the Cavaliers traded local favorite Zydrunas Ilgauskas (who’s spent his entire 12-year career with the Cavs) to …
How, after all these years of being a “Calvin & Hobbes” fan, did I never realize Bill Watterson is from Cleveland!? 😮 The Plain Dealer posted a brief interview with the cartoonist, thought to be his first since 1989. A C&H stamp will be issued by the post office later this year. I loved reading …
The hard drive in my server crashed! I’ve been having problems over the past few days where Ubuntu was just locked up and the server was unpingable. I’m trying to make a backup image of the drive before it completely dies, but for now I’ve got some of the site back up and running with …
After almost two solid weeks of temperatures in the 40s (and below freezing in some areas, apparently we brought it back with us from Ohio), our normal Florida “winter” weather returned today. Yes, it was finally back in the 70s … I was able to eat lunch outside in the sun and even cook up …
Wow, 2010. Hard to believe that 10 years ago we were worried about Y2K! 😉 For New Year’s Eve we did our family tradition of fondue for dinner (we went out to The Melting Pot this year instead of cooking it ourselves). Then we headed over to First Night in downtown St. Petersburg, which we …
My little sister will turn 30 next year on 10/10/10, which is pretty cool on a number (no pun intended) of levels, mainly 10 + 10 + 10 = 30. This got me to thinking that being born on the first day of October, I’ve never really had one of those cool birthdays like 01/02/03, …
As investigators searched the home near Lakeland for drugs, some drug task force members found other ways to occupy their time. Within 20 minutes of entering the home, some of the investigators found a Wii video bowling game and began bowling frame after frame. I saw this headline on the local paper this morning: “A …
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It’s been a slow start to the 2009 hurricane season … we’re halfway through August and just now have the first named storm, Ana. Of course back in 2004, we had Charley in mid-August and then were hunkering down for Frances, Ivan, and Jeanne in quick succession in September, so it can ramp up quickly! …