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Archive for November, 2008

More taxes…

While I’m glad the election is over, I can’t believe people here in LA passed Measure R.  I voted against this because even though I’m all for public transportation and better urban planning, LA already devotes 1 cent out of 8.25 cents of sales tax to transportation and I doubt the increase in sales tax [...]

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Cold-War

The circulation pump motor died @ my parents’ house so I endured cold showers for the last few days.  Check out the capacitor on the now dead unit:
It was made in West Germany!
The new pump looks pretty much like the old unit, including the capacitor. (no picture of the new unit because I’m lazy and [...]

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Bleary-eyed

So this is what one does to save a buck around here. 
I stood in line @ OfficeMax this morning @ 6:30 to get free case of paper for the next 6 months.  OfficeMax had a grand opening special for the first 50 customers and the line wasn’t all that bad @ 6:30.  I was [...]

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