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We have taken a break from the Bucket brigade…

Posted: February 26, 2010 by datechguy in personal
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…basically if you were here you would have the sight of me in shorts and boots carrying buckets of water from the cellar to outside, while the wife (who has called out today) fills the buckets in the cellar and brings them up to me.

The oldest has put out a blast e-mail/facebook for extra hand, so hopefully we will have a full crew of teens/friends and over the next 36 hours have the cellar cleared of both water and stuff that will grow mold (everyone in the house but me has allergies).

The base plan is to get the water out today and get the furnace back up and running, while tomorrow we will clean out the trash and everything else that has to go. We will of course get what we can get done today. I’m hoping for a lot of the kids friends for that as we will certainly provide pizza etc.

That is the plan for now, I’ll see what blogging I can get in between.

I’m not proud so i’ll take any able body willing to help get this done.

Foot of water in the basement, blogging will be a tad light…

Posted: February 26, 2010 by datechguy in personal
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Went downstairs to add water to the furnace and found that nature beat me to it adding a foot of water to my entire basement.

So blogging will be lighter as I start with the buckets and the maybe grabbing a pump.

Update: It’s amazing how unimportant politics is when you have a cellar to clean out.

Who is that guy without the beard?

Posted: February 25, 2010 by datechguy in personal
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Sans beard

Just back from the Barber shop today got a haircut and had the beard shaved. My son snapped a shot with his camera phone.

I had actually planned on shaving it Friday evening so I would have a totally different look on the last day to confuse everyone, but thanks to a long but very enjoyable conversation I ended up missing the Metro and instead entered my gonzo period, thus the razor and the shaving cream went untouched.

Of course if you were reading in the Scott Brown Campaign days there were beardless shots of me all over.

Update: Want to weigh in on the beard? There is now a poll

A quick FYI post

Posted: February 22, 2010 by datechguy in personal
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People who have known me for years might be aware that one of my abiding faults is being slow on my e-mail, so to all the people who have e-mailed etc, I’m going to ask some indulgence since I have a WHOLE lot more to deal with than usual.

Today I have the cable guy coming to take care of the connection issue upstairs, some stuff for the Planned Parenthood fight to do, a K of C ceremony where my oldest will be joining.

I’m still got some straightening up to do around here and I ended up a little sick once I got home.

I have a lot of CPAC stuff still to go, interviews, photos and some writing that I plan on doing on what I saw and heard.

And of course there are the bills (we are on year 6 of my turn on the 16 year bill cycle) that I have to make sure get taken care of not to mention my search for that elusive $800 a week job, my drop dead date is getting closer.

So there is a lot to do and not really enough of me to do it, but we’ll manage.

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