Stuology

I had something in KC that I needed to do today, so I dipped into vacation and made a day of it. My morning was spent by myself, but I meet Ada and Mac after they finished meeting a friend for lunch. Mac drove back home, but Ada and I ran some errands. One of [...]

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Cooking rice in our rice cooker is a confusing and sometimes frustrating task. You wouldn’t think because there is one switch that goes to two settings: cook and warm. The problem is that I can never remember which is which, and the little icon of cooking rice confuses me because it the one that looks [...]

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This link is a video. A video worth watching: Trekkies Bash New Star Trek Film As ‘Fun, Watchable’ | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source Long time fans of the Star Trek franchise say JJ Abrams’ enjoyable, engaging prequel betrays what Star Trek is all about. Most people know that I am not a [...]

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I’m spending today and tomorrow getting the yard into shape. I haven’t had time until this weekend due mainly to work. I’m doing too much of that. I was pulling the weeds out of the planter in front of the porch when Ada came out wanting to help. As soon as I took off my [...]

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It has taken all the restraint that I have in me to not list my children on eBay today.

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I would hope that this is just a set-up joke, but I fear it isn’t. 1) It isn’t a matter of opinion 2) Most 4th graders should be able to figure it out. 4) Teach them the difference by changing their pay from 8-dollars per hour to 8-cents per hour. See more funny videos and [...]

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During the Wisler Stomach Flu Epidemic of 2009, 3:00am became known as “The Puking Hour.” It is now also known as “The Beating Hour” — the time when Jay wakes up and comes into our room with the express purpose of hitting me in the head. I pulled him into bed last night after my [...]

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Via Lifehacker: SuperCook. Find recipes by entering what you have in your kitchen. It is a new site that expands on the functionality of CookingByNumbers. Creating an account is free. I’m going to give it a shot later to see what sort of recipes it has in there.

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Honda Insight 1.3 IMA SE Hybrid – best car review I’ve read in a long time.

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Taking a trip to St. Louis to visit the zoo picks up another item in the “pro” list. This is Ada’s last week of school until September. I’m done working in mid-July. I think it would be fun to take a road trip to hit one of the three, more interesting zoos within a decent [...]

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