That’s it! It’s done! The dishwasher is in place and the only leak was at a coupling that wasn’t tight enough. In the end I had to cut out the offending toilet valve and put in a nice new T valve. One of those compression deallies. Those things are great because there’s not soldering involved and all you need is raw power to tighten them up.      I only had...

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     So! Brianne’s last day at Esselte was Friday. Everyone is going to miss here there. While it can’t last forever, it’s really nice to have a receptionist that’s highly over qualified to do that job.      Ailise’s back in good old America Junior. She’s got a job at a boarding school in Netmarket. So, she’ll be one of them live-in techer...

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     I decided to do a little digging. My canoe paddle that I made with 2nd Erin Mills Ventures is sitting here next to me, and the slogan written on it says “Moomba”. Apparently moomba was an aboriginal word which was explained to a Brit as “Let’s get together and have fun”, but there has been some further research done and it explains that mum or moom is more equivalent to...

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     So, I pulled out everything from under the sick, turned off the water to the house and then what do I see…      Unfortunately the quick little job of hooking up our new kitchen tap doesn’t look like it’s going to be so quick. Grr. Argh.      In a completely unrelated topic, I made a Slipstreamed XP SP2 CD last night, and my first...

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     Use Mozilla Firefox as your default browser, and are having trouble with shortcuts from your desktop (or anywheres really)… Here’s the fix:1. Open Explorer 2. Select Tools and then Folder Options 3. Select the File Types tab 4. Select Extension: (NONE), File Type: HyperText Transfer Protocol 5. Click Advanced toward the bottom of the window 6. In the Edit File Type window, select open and...

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