Spackle Credit
December 30, 2006
I was bored the other day so I ordered a credit card for the dog.
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Dog Stairs
November 30, 2006
Imagine you’re me. You have a dog, you live on the second floor of an apartment, you have to put on all kinds of clothes on every time the dog needs to go out, and you have a ton of scrap lumber. What would you do? you would build dog stairs. and after three weeks of construction, its complete.
Shazam!
When Spackle needs to go out at 3am its out the window with him. When I first set up the stairs he went down but he wouldn’t come up them, so I ordered a roll of that anti-slip stuff for stairs and now he goes up like its nothing. I got a sixteen foot retractable leash and tied a rope between it and the eve of the roof so when Spackle gets to the ground he has an effective twelve foot wandering radius.
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Snakes In An Office
October 30, 2006
I’m starting to think I won’t ever be not busy again. On top of running around fixing computers all day I have to avoid the random snakes running around the office.
So there was only one snake and it was a gardener snake, but there was a snake in the building nonetheless. When I’m not dodging snakes I’m at home wrestling with spackle
Some day I’ll have time to write something interesting… I promise.
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Ainsworth
September 25, 2006
I have been so unbelievably busy the last few months. I’m at work at least fifty hours a week, and if I’m not at work them I’m either at home resting or in Duluth working on the house. Two weekends ago we were in Duluth and we went to a wedding. While we were there Jenn threw my cell phone into a fountain (she claims it was an accident.) So now I get to wait another week for my new phone to show up.
Onto the reason I am writing this entry. I was reading the paper today and to my absolute shock, I found out that Ainsworth will be suspending operations in Cook in just two weeks. They will lay of one hundred fifty of about one hundred seventy employees. Unbelievable. The paper said the reason for the shutdown was “insufficient demand in the market”, I find this hard to believe. Here is a picture I took today of the building going up across the street from Freeze. No Joke.
If there is insufficient demand in the market, then why do I see Ainsworth OSB is everywhere I go?
Truth:
There is no shortage of buyers.
Allen, Brian & Catherine Ainsworth are evil.
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Stupid Pens
August 7, 2006
Every day I go to work I need to write stuff down, so every day I go to the supply cabinet to get a pen, it didn’t occur to me until just today that I have been getting a new pen almost every day since I started my job. Since I couldn’t figure out where all the pens are going, I decided to put a stop to it. My idea is to get a piece of yarn and tie a pen to each end of it, then string it through my shirt.
BAM!! no more lost pens. Just like a pair of mittens.
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Internet
July 16, 2006
Its been more than a month since my last update, but only because I’ve been so busy. I’ll start off by saying that I have resolved my internet problem. I found another wireless ISP in St. Cloud and they are providing me faster internet than I had through Quest in Duluth for less money. They did have to put a 20′ tower on the apartment, which is fine with me, but the owner of the building was not so happy. Aside from that, I have been working 60 hours a week to prepare for this big office move that is going to happen this coming weekend. I figure once the move is over, I can start working on selling the house in proctor, and once that’s over I can finally relax.
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New Job
June 6, 2006
666 haha
Well, a lot has happened in the last month. First and foremost, I got a “Desktop Support Technician” position at:
The company is located in St. Cloud and today was my second day of “work.” I say “work” because its just orientation, and it lasts for a whole week. Not like at potlatch where on my first day they slapped me into an office and told me I had to audit the entire network in three days. So I got an apartment a few miles north of town. its a nice place but its so far out of town that DSL and cable internet aren’t available, the only option I have found so far is ClearWire (a wireless broadband provider). So I went and signed up only to get it home and find out that they shape every port except 80. What does this mean you ask. it means if I want to do any downloading that doesn’t involve a webpage, I’ll get throttled down to pre-dialup speeds. This means rather than taking an hour to download a 700MB video, it takes about two weeks. One things for sure, I can’t live without the internet.
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New Grill
May 6, 2006
A while ago Jenn was saying that we should get a grill. I thought it would be a good idea but I didn’t want to pay money for a stupid grill so I just kind of forgot about it. A while later I was parting out some old computers and when I was done I had a few empty metal cases. They were to big to jam into the trash cans at Wal-Mart and there was no way I was going to pay money to get rid of them so I just kind of forgot about them. Then recently I noticed that all my used motor oil was starting to pile up, so I took it over to Valvoline to get rid of it only to find out that they don’t accept used oil and I would have to drive across town to get rid of it. Well, I wasn’t about to pay money (for gas) to drive to the other side of town just to get rid of some stupid motor oil so I brought it home and just kind of forgot about it. Then just yesterday I had a rapid fire series of awesome Ideas.
Idea #1: Burn the oil.
Idea #2: Burn the oil in a metal coffee can outside so the house doesn’t burn down.
Idea #3: Grab an old computer case and set the can of burning oil on it so it is easier to watch.
Idea #4: Set another old computer case over the burning can of oil and cook on it
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The result is brilliant. Now I have a grill so I don’t have to buy one, I don’t have to pay to get rid of my old computer cases, I don’t have to waste gas driving across town to get rid of old oil, and I’m saving money on my natural gas bill every time I cook with this thing instead of the stove. This is the ultimate cheap mans solution!
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Dog Cage
April 26, 2006
I was beginning to think that containing this dog was impossible, he destroyed every cardboard barrier I created. So I decided to put a stop to it, I just finished construction on the Alcatraz of dog cages.
It took about three hours to design and another eight to construct (Due to my lack of proper cutting tools). Its made out of an old table I found in my basement and other various scraps of wood the only thing I had to buy was a box of screws. total cost = $2.12
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Spackle
April 19, 2006
It was Jenns Birthday last night. For her birthday I got her a dog, his name is Spackle
Actually I got the dog a few days before her birthday, and last night was the fist time we left him alone in the house. I decided to barricade him into the kitchen, I took a few 2 foot tall pieces of cardboard and put them up against the door way and put two large Rubbermaid containers behind the cardboard to hold it in place. Before I left I put the dog, his food, his blanket and a newspaper in the kitchen. when I got home I found a “dog present” in the back room and Spackle was in the dining room.
That means that he had to bypass the rear barrier to poop then again to reenter the kitchen and then around the side barrier to end up in the dining room. I had no idea how he did it until today when he fell asleep and I found these
Yup, he has wings, and therefore can fly.
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