General

Time for a new coffee maker

Our old Mr. Coffee was simple, but worked great. Unfortunately, it's white and we wanted black for our kitchen. We have a black Braun coffee maker, but it's been letting us down. Despite fancy features like programmability and a...
Fitness

Back to the bike store

After last weekend's flat tires on the trail, we headed back to the bike store to bolster our defenses, after getting Nicole's tube patched. We both got Tuffies liners (kevlar?) in our tires and I got a bike-mounted pump. We also...
General

Weatherstripping

The foam weatherstripping around our front door has a bunch of gaps in it (so much so that when painters were pressure washing the other day, water was actually getting into the house!). I went to Osh thinking I'll just buy some...
General

Foo Fighter

A bit of trivia for you... In the back of my mind, I've been curious about the origin of the name "Foo Fighters" for Dave Grohl's post-Nirvana band. And now I've stumbled on an explanation on Wikipedia. Turns out it's an...