Category: another day in the life
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A cautionary tale
File this under: if something appears to be too good to be true, it probably IS too good to be true. A month or so ago Chuck was at a party and got to chatting with a fellow who was just wrapping up (keep that in mind for later) refinancing his home using a company…
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Customer Service
Any of you who read the blog on a regular basis know I don’t post very often. After two mediocre encounters with customer service folks recently I felt a need. My gut level is customer server has gone the same way as the Dodo bird. My first foray into the customer service world was with…
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Rebooting
When a computer slows down, freezes, or generally starts behaving in a funky manner, we all know what to do: reboot! Well, this past week Chuck and I have been attempting to reboot our systems. Not because we were freezing up or had a virus. No, our reboot had to do with making some mental…
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Transformation
It took almost exactly twice as long as expected, but the money pit has been transformed! It’s now a green house with red accents. Here’s the before and after:
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Time to Paint the Money Pit!
So now that the house has been fully repaired (goodbye, dry rot! goodbye bad siding!) we are ready for step 2 of our money pit beautification project. It’s house painting time! We hired Student Painters to do the job. They’re a very cool company that works with college students to give them real world experience…
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Update from the Money Pit – or how we spent our summer vacation savings 🙁
We’ve been having some work done on the money pit house for the past week or so. It all started because we decided it was time to repaint. Our house was looking increasingly like the shabbiest place on the block, with chipping paint, split boards, and (yikes!) dry rot – stuff like that. It was…
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