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  • Cost of Maintenance

    Queensboro Bridge - Manhattan to Queens by Skellig2008 used under Creative Commons The last time I was in New York City I got a fascinating history lesson about the Queensboro Bridge from the cab driver that took me from midtown to LaGuardia Airport. He started off the lesson with a...
  • Paper Prototypes

    Jodie and I went furniture shopping this weekend. Our basement furniture is really starting to show its age (10 years) and it is time for a replacement set. We found a really nice oversized couch and chair + 1/2 set at a local furniture store (BTW – I did not...
  • Measure twice, cut once

    Last night I was hanging a cabinet at home and I wanted to make sure that it was centered on the wall. I took measurements of the wall size, the cabinet size and where the anchors would have to be on the back of the cabinet. Then I did some...
  • Dorm Room Generational Shift

    My oldest son started college a few weeks ago. It was a real generational shift for me in a number of ways because some part of me still thought that I could fit in on a college campus. As Zachary and I went through the application process, orientation this summer...
  • Dealing with an outage

    I love it when I experience great customer service, when people go above and beyond to make your experience just that much better. Maybe I am lucky, but it seems like about once a week I have an above average experience. It has happened to me a couple times already...

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