Mar
31
April Fool’s Day Preparation
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With tomorrow being April Fool’s Day, I thought I’d provide any of you wanton prankster out there with a list of potential gags for your arsenal. Sadly April Fool’s falls on a Saturday this year so the token office pranks that get trotted out each April 1st will have to sit on the shelf [...]
Mar
29
Hands Covered in Boo-Boos
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I did some work yesterday on my house. The main water line coming into my house in the basement has been dripping constantly for about a month. Well, not so much a drip; more like a steady stream of water. The water line is leaking from a device attached to the inlet [...]
Mar
29
A day late
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This week’s Dimmer Switch is finally up. Go forth and read.
Barbie, Thou Art a Villain
If ground tremors are felt in central England today, it’s probably just Shakespeare rolling in his grave.
Mar
28
Simple Math
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Vomiting child + cleaning carpets until midnight = no Dimmer Switch for today.
So much for Tuesdays fitting into my schedule better. Oh well, tis life. I should have it done prior to the Carnival this Thursday.
Mar
27
Monday Link-o-Rama
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Kicking of the first scheduled Monday Link-o-Rama. Below are six nuggets of web-delight for you to chew on. Enjoy!
Are you stressed? Take Hello Kitty’s stress test to find out.
How to fold a shirt. (Link to video) Amazingly simple but not as quick as wadding it in a ball and stuffing it [...]
Mar
27
Adjustments to posting schedule.
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Not that I have ever abided by a governing posting schedule, but I have made some changes which includes adding a weekly feature.
First up, the Dimmer Switch will now be posted on Tuesday mornings instead of Mondays. It just fits my schedule better. I doubt many will notice since most people read [...]
Mar
24
I used to call these DAPAs, short for Daily Acts of Personal Amusement, but after about a week I started running out of ideas. I also realized that on some days you don’t want to be amused; you want to be bitter, depressed, or angry and drag everyone down with you. Aren’t [...]
Mar
22
Linky-o-rama
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Spent most of the day travelling and catching up on my day job responsibilities, so here’s a link-o-rama of interesting/entertaining/timewasting stuff I’ve found while waiting at the airport. Since I do all the work hunting down the gems like these listed below, you have more time to waste clicking on them. It makes [...]
Mar
22
F for, ah forget it!
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I saw V for Vendetta this evening. The most A for Annoying part of the movie wasn’t the M for Movie itself, but the C for Clever movie critics whose R for Reviews insisted on using the same T for Tired play on W for Words with the movie’s title. In my personal [...]
Mar
21
Brand New Switch
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The new Switch is up (finally). I think I am going to change the arrival date of these to Tuesday mornings, he says after posting this week’s offering almost at midnight. This week’s post was not without its delays, not all of which were my fault. Better planning on my part would’ve [...]