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    Put in some new carpet & baseboard

    In my infinite wisdom, I forgot to take a before picture. With that being said, we finally got around to the gold shag carpet a’la 1985 in the down stairs play/TV room. I also chose a bigger baseboard which I like. The stuff that was in there was tiny. I’m in the process of caulking the joint...
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    Mmm delicious breakfast pizza

    Made this pie with the kiddos this morning for breakfast and it was tasty. won’t bother you with the recipe, just the assembly if you are so inclined to do something similar. cheddar mornay 5 eggs scrambled Whatever ingredient you want Pizza dough formula made with AP. Mix eggs, toppings...
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    Stair upgrade from carpet to hardwood

    I bought treads on a sale a few years ago with the intent to tear out the gross carpeted stairs (three sets in this home). With some paternity leave burning away, I finally had the time to tackle this job. I started with the bottom set of five which I think look nice, so I’m excited to get the...
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    10-14-23 total/annular eclipse

    I was lucky enough to live right under the total eclipse pathway, so snapped a few pics with the lowest tech method available - my iPhone and some cardboard solar viewers lol. Here’s my favorite. Who knew Sauron was real. 😅 This is another fun one. Believe it or not, this photo was at total...
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    Picked up a RX580 for my gaming box

    When my Radeon R7 M440 died years ago, I had to pull out my old 1gb Radeon HD6790 and have been using that for the past 3 years relegated to primarily TOTC gaming ie: UT/Q3A/Q2/COD/2/HL/2/CSS/Feart etc. Granted Ive been pretty busy so not much time to game in earnest, so not much loss there I...
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    Verizon 5G internet

    I've been shopping around for faster home internet as my old phone lines have centurylink ADSL capped at 24mbps and I average around 20-21 with no activity - with a SD movie, or kids streaming toonies, I'm looking at around 7-10 free. I was about to pull the plug on Xfinity 200mbps at $45m but...
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    passive solar cooling paint idea

    I live in the desert so you can imagine the sun is very intense on homes. I found this idea/recipe for a cooling paint very cool (pardon the pun). This along with evaporative cooling would be fantastic or even as basic as a coating over/around the evaporative cooler itself could help cool the...
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    Anyone have the manual for an HP Vectra VL400 MT

    Anyone have the manual for an HP Vectra VL400 MT ? I picked one up for free and was curious about the jumper switches on the motherboard. I think this would be a fun candidate for a sleeper 1ghz P3 gaming box actually in a modern case. Anyhow, I ran a quick search and found nothing tangible so...
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    Christmas traditions?

    Here’s one of our households: Chimayo Red Chile pork tamales. what are yours?
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    Best use for old spinners

    Who knew that spinners work fantastically as weighted presses when tasked with repairing your 5y/o sons MOTU packaging. I figure he’ll eventually want this back as the apple rarely falls too far from the toy nerd tree. 🤔
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    Scooped a couple iMac g4s off CL free

    Scooped these today. I haven’t fired them up yet but both work per the original listing pics. I’m excited to see what software is on them. Free aside from the gas to get across town. I’ll fire them up this weekend & see what they are.
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    Favorite kitchen Doo-dads & gadgets.

    What are they? This can be as simple as a single-use gadget or as complex as a multi purpose item like an oven, mixer etc. I'll go first. A minced beef/meat wand/chopper. I find this single-use gadget to be incredibly useful. There is no other piece of gadgetry that I know of that pulls minced...
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    Pixel Perfect icon design challenge

    This is a fitting challenge with the classic mac fever around these parts. https://developer.apple.com/news/?id=3sgp4ps7
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    Show me your gardens

    I like to garden and eat the food I grow. This raised garden bed design is fast & easy to build and is scalable in height dependent on desired height, budget etc. My build costs ran around $188 per bed & should last a good 20-25 years. 2x6x12 = $18*9 4x4x12 = $25 topsoil = $2.50*6 effectively...
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    Kitchen demo & remodel

    Wife wants a new kitchen, so I spent the past few weekends gutting out the kitchen to it’s walls & sub floor. Getting all of our pots n pans, tools n do dads n dry storage was a chore in itself. This floor was a heinous job that I wish on no other human. Such a PITA (&heavy). Breaking and...
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    Fat Head dough

    Hey Fat Heads. Anyone into this dough? My better half has me on low carb once again (very very sad times as I love to make velvety smooth doughs, bake breads etc.) so for Pizza Friday with my boys(wife is out hanging out with her girlfriends) I am making them a normal pizza & for myself, I am...
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    Favorite Holiday Sweets?

    Biscochitos are a uber traditional holiday staple in my wife's family on her mom's Spanish side. As her mother snagged Omicron in November and has been recovering from that, my wife made them this year and we'll take them up for Xmas. The recipe below is her family recipe and literally came...
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    What do you like to eat when you don’t want to cook?

    What do you like to eat when you don’t want to cook? Fast food & leftovers don’t count. 🙂 Me, as much as I love left overs, it has to be charcuterie & some hooch. What do y’all go for?
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    Sil3512 Sata PCI Weibetech OSX Flashing utility

    It seems the waybackmachine is having server trouble and cannot find the weibetech utility downloads from crawls between 2005-2009 so Ive attached the files needed to flash a generic sil3512 SATA card to work in a mac for large drive support (originally pulled from WBM archive). The utility runs...