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My wife, the plumber
On Friday, I decided to work on our irrigation system as I had a few more things to finish up since our main plumbing problem of last month. While I was finishing the plumbing, I decided to replace the fill valve for our pool with an electronically controlled, sprinkler valve. I already had an anti-siphon device, so I just needed the valve. The old valve leaked and I had to manually remember to shut it off.
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iOS App Store's ups and downs
At the beginning of August, I released MovieConverter to the App Store. I created the app to fill a personal need and decided to see if it met the needs of others. My goal, financially, was to recoup the cost of having an icon created for it; icons are not cheap and since I can't design one myself, I had to commission one. I used Jordan Langille of One Toad Design and was pleased with his work, so he got my business again.
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The lights are off, but someone's home
As anyone in San Diego knows, last Thursday there was a major power outage that covered the entire county of San Diego. When the power went out, I didn't think much of it as it was hot and I thought it was just a rolling blackout. I was on my way out the door to pick up flowers for my wife for our 10th wedding anniversary. While not very romantic, I was off to Costco to get the flowers; after all these years, my wife knows where I get flowers and likes them nonetheless. It took me about 45 minutes round trip to make it to Costco; the store, like just about every store was closed. On the way home, I decided to take a shortcut through a parking lot as I didn't want to deal with another traffic light that was out. On my way through it, I saw people going into Albertsons, so I stopped and went in to see if I could get flowers.
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Misclassified Restaurants in Search Engines
We don't go out to dinner all that often and when we do, we visit the same places. When we want to look for some place new, we do online searches or use sites like Yelp! Unfortunately, it seems that the results I get are not all that helpful. My wife asked me what kind of food I'd like for our anniversary dinner next week and I said Cuban food. I did a search on Google and came up with: