Mark’s Blog

I think of at least 10 blog posts a day. To the point where I mentally process most new events with the starting premise of “How would I blog this.”
And then I don’t.

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Interesting visitors…

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An ad was on the tele while I was mixing myself a dink:  “…Fibersure, from the makers of Metamucil, a clear mixing fiber supplement that mixes easily into foods and drinks without altering taste or color.”  It was just as I was pouring the Bombay Sapphire into my own G&T an resulting in a hilarious eureka […]

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Photographed by denovich
About CD Cover Meme
Make your own CD Cover with the following steps and rocket yourself to mulit-platinum status and start fending off the groupies.
1. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
The first article title on the page is the name of your band.
2. www.quotationspage.com/random.php3
The last four words of the very last quote is the title of your album.
3. www.flickr.com/explore/interesting/7days/
The […]

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Greenbean passed this morning.
I haven’t been able to rationalize my way out of feeling miserable today.  I can’t even explain how she came to mean so much to me, but I know my mom understands.  Ten years ago, I welcomed her (with some reservations…. I didn’t even like cats) into my home when Deb moved […]

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but some days I feel like a peninsula.

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I keep Mark from sleeping each night.
I make Mark feel like the walking dead.

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Over time my Wii has become progressively louder. As the DVD spun it made a terrible buzzing sound… so loud it really bothered me. I finally took the time to disassemble it and here’s what I did to fix it.
1) Follow the instructions here to get to the drive: http://forums.lovingwii.com/nintendo-wii-hardware/425-guide-disassemble-nintendo-wii-video-pictures.html
Now I tried tweaking […]

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shot by Martin Unsal
I bought a new flatbed scanner (Epson V500) . It does a very good job of scanning color negatives, especially considering its price (~$200.) So I brought my pre-digital photo collection home with me to scan. It’s a fairly slow process, about 25min for 8 photos, but over the […]

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We’ve been in the US for the holidays.  It has been a remarkably busy time for us.  When we weren’t taking care of months of past due chores at home or work, we were spending all our time visiting friends and family.
We fly back tomorrow, and we go back with suitcases full of goodies and […]

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