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Did you really get the impression that folks around here needed a beginner DIY article?

I'd happily eat either, yum. And for whatever reason that first loaf made me think of the Nightmare Before Christmas - in a good way.

I may have spoken too soon. We have no heat on the second floor of the house. So while it's toasty on the first floor, the second floor lost 10 degrees overnight and it's not supposed to get above freezing today. Yay. I'm trying to be kind and wait till 8am to call Mr. Heat again.

Yeah, I definitely got lucky. The expansion tank had failed which is definitely something that can flood a basement in a short period of time.

It wasn't too bad and my repair guy, who I've been using for 10 years cut me a break on the weekend service call cost. So I overpaid him and did it in cash. No more drippy boiler.

Walked downstairs to go grocery shopping and, for reasons I can't even recall, took a look into the storage room. Glad I did, as the boiler was dripping hot water all over the floor and had already created a small puddle. I put a Solo cup under the offending pipe and it relatively quickly started to fill so I called the heater repairman who informed me that I'd be paying $200 simply for the pleasure of interrupting his weekend. Currently waiting for him to arrive to find out how much on top of the flat fee I'll get to shell out. I love spring.

I know this will come as a shock... but it's snowing again. It's supposed to stop by noon time but goddamnit, yesterday was the first day of spring.

I was curious until I saw the ~$2k price tag. While less functional I'd be tempted to build a system around the Outlaw RR2150 first.

I fully expect Stretch's next post to be this.

I should clarify, it's the tip of the work pens that are fat. Like 1.2mm ballpoint fat. While I can't write well with fine or extra-fine point pens this is the other end of the spectrum and equally as useless (to me). I also grabbed some .7mm uni-ball jet stream pens.

I can now, in an extremely limited fashion, contribute to this thread. For the last few weeks the pens that work supplies have been driving me nuts. They're fat, write like shit and are just plain frustrating. But I wasn't about to use a fountain pen. So I did a bit of research and yesterday a Retro 1951 Tornado in stainless steel finish arrived. It both looks and writes excellently.

^^^ This.

My balls hurt just watching that, Greg. Crazy....

^^^ I'd listen to this guy.

I think you can also just put a divider off the pro bias.

Happy birthday to my west coast lawyer. May your day be filled with hops and no headaches.

The, eh, good news is that all of the hosts' contracts expire at the same time so presumably, if one is sacked, they can all move on together if they chose to do so.

Wuhoo @ Dave!! I always enjoyed the Opus.

This plus I'd do everything that I could to get a 2-stage model. It'll throw much better in both light and heavy snow. I can live with a single-stage because the motor behind it is my tractor but even with that at times this year I had to blow snow twice to actually get it off the driveway.

Poor CJ.

But it's newegg so you might get something entirely different, like a TV stand or potted plant or knitting needles.

Put me in the "not a fan of the yellow" camp and with your recently acquired collection Jacob, I'm surprised you're still shopping.

I'm with Brent, that last one is pretty epic.

You'll want something pretty substantial to clear that much space, Haj. I was hoping it was on the smallish side and you could get by with an electric one and avoid the hassle of gas-powered lawn instruments. In the good news portion of the day the near 50 degree temps knocked out most of the snow that we got yesterday and the driveway is mostly clear.

How much driveway do you have, Haj?