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Spammer Scammers

I had forgotten about one endearing aspect of home ownership: Since property transactions are matters of public record – there are advertising groups who scour those records with incredible efficiency in order to send out official looking letters offering products for your mortgage or house.…

House Update

I spent most of yesterday working on the house. We’ve started dividing the world into critical-path and non-critical activities. Critical-path is “anything that is actively keeping us from moving into the place.” Non-critical is everything else. We then proceed to laugh at ourselves because we…

Most Unclean

I was awakened most horribly this morning. My cat, Merlot, has a cancer of the jaw. It involves bloody drool. This morning, I think that she was feeling sick and lonely, so she came and sat on the headboard above me as I slept. Aaaaaaand…

He always gets up

I got high praise at Judo today. A visiting judoka from our friendly neighbors to the north was working a particular throw. There was some discussion about whether said throw would work on someone taller than her – and it was suggested that she try…

Woodpecker

So I’m coming back from lunch yesterday, having dropped off the check for the shiny new gutters on the shiny new house. I reach the path from the street to my door and I see this bird clinging to the underside of said gutters. I…

Epic Snit

Got my “Home CFO” hat on this morning, and I opened up a letter from redmeds employers. It was one page saying basically that they hadn’t received a response to their request for information about clinical privileges, and they were following up. Then I got…

Twitter

I think that I get twitter – and there’s not much to get. Back in the day, I was a luddite who thought that “the web” was just a massive ego trip. Seriously – I put up a web page on one of the umich…

Transformers

So, the reviews for the new transformers movie aren’t great: “Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen” is a horrible experience of unbearable length, briefly punctuated by three or four amusing moments. One of these involves a dog-like robot humping the leg of the heroine. Such are…

House

Had a productive day at the house today. We: * Removed all the flourescent light fixtures from the main floor* Installed sliding locks on a couple of doors.* Made a couple more doors actually open and close correctly.* Took another layer of paint off the…

Work

I don’t post much about work. Mostly this is because this is the internet and I assume that you’re all intelligent enough to figure out my real name and my real company and use that to email my real co-workers and my real customers, and…