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Do you have a strong dislike for jumk mail in your mailbox, as I do? If yours comes via “Red plum” or Valassis, here’s where you go to get yourself off the mailing: http://www.valassis.com/1024/Contact/consumersupport.aspx

2011 03 23 A.J. Comments (0)

Ditching Comcast

On Friday, my new DSL modem arrived in the mail. I climbed up on a chair and re-wired the outside Qwest line to my shiny new ActionTec. After a bit of futzing around with my network setup, I pulled the plug on my Comcast cable modem. Back when we signed up for Cable Internet service, […]

2007 04 22 A.J. Comments (1)

City Living

Never a dull moment around here! A Minneapolis man wandered naked through residential streets on the city’s south side and fought with police before being bitten by a police dog and subdued with a Taser gun, officials said Wednesday. The city’s south side… aka 3 blocks from my house! I just missed this all going […]

2004 12 08 A.J. Comments (0)

Labor Day

We’re back from a quick weekend in Colorado for a wedding, and the weather is beautiful today. A nice 50-70 swing in temperature today. We bought some new running shoes yesterday, so I may make my inaugural run in comfortable shoes tonight, although I have to go to the Metropolitan Airports Commision (MAC) meeting this […]

2004 09 07 A.J. Comments (1)

The Sofa

What I would like to know is, why does it take 8 weeks to get a couch? Don’t they have a couch factory that just rolls them off the line, and when we want a couch that is in a certain fabric, they just slap it together? Well, my experiences with the furniture industry have […]

2004 06 06 A.J. Comments (1)

First Snow!

This morning I woke up to some fresh new snow, officially (in my book) the first snow of the year! Yay! Yay! Happy Dance! I’m hoping it melts again before the cold of the winter sets in, because I still have some yard work to do. (Remember last year?)

2003 11 03 A.J. Comments Off on First Snow!

Leaves are coming down!

Well, “the weekend of the rake” is fast approaching. As I stood outside this morning when I let Yeti out, I could hear the leaves dropping on the ground like giant snowflakes. The weekend of the rake is fast approaching. We have some additional issues to deal with this year that weren’t a problem the […]

2003 10 27 A.J. Comments Off on Leaves are coming down!