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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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A final road trip
UPDATE 06-10-11: I just heard this song and realized it captures perfectly what this weekend meant to me. Go call your family, hug your kids. Time is precious. Don’t waste it. ———————- I have spent the last couple of weeks getting ready for what I dubbed “Ashes to Ashes: A Memorial.” It started out as
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Another year, another El Prieto Handicap
Last Saturday (May 21) was the 18th annual El Prieto Handicap, Chuck’s little race that he’s been putting on for, you guessed it, 18 years (here’s the story behind the race). But this was the third year (the first time was 2009 – I can’t believe it’s been that long!) that we asked folks to
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A fun weekend in which we run the Bay to Breakers fully clothed and make a big decision
This past Sunday was the Bay to Breakers (B2B for short), which for those of you who don’t live in California and/or live in a cave, is a 12K road race held annually in San Francisco. The name comes from the course which starts near the Embarcadero (the Bay), runs through Golden Gate Park and
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Junk email of the week
Received this morning: Dear webmail User, We are undertaking some maintenance to verifying our subscribers email account but you need extensive maintenance to improve your webmail Service and this is what we want to do for your account. We are deleting all unused E-mail account, to confirm that your account is currently in use and
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