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My youngest brother is getting married this weekend and my family (me, my wife and children) are not invited. We had a personal falling out and things have never been quite the same between the two of us. Oh, we’re cordial to each other at family events but contact is for the most part, limited. Amy suggested today that I should go and sit in the back during the ceremony and leave before the reception. I wouldn’t feel right. I wasn’t invited, I’m not going.

Family feuds like this aren’t (unfortunately) uncommon and often times they last for ever (or for a while). I’m hoping this doesn’t become a permanent issue between the two of us. By the way, if anyone is in Kennesaw tomorrow and you want to help me lay corner round to finish the floor let me know….

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Ever had a garage sale? How’d you make your yard signs advertising it? If you’re like most people you cut a piece of cardboard from a box that was still in your basement from when you moved and you scribbled (or you had your wife write it) the details of the garage sale (location, time, dates) then tacked it to a garden stake. Right? Imagine how much better your sale could have been if you had used professionally printed yard signs from BuildASign! Cool, stylish and more noticable then most of the usual corner offerings your sale would be the talk of the town (or at least the neighborhood!)

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In every epic tale of good over evil, David vs. Goliath, Sith Lord vs. Jedi, the Good Guy usually triumphs. My most recent battle luckily ended with me slaying my Goliath. No, it wasn’t a one eyed monster come to take my children or even an intruder in my house. It was a simple, brass bolt that kept the tank on the toilet. As you can see from the photo though, it wasn’t quite brass any more (it was more a green sludgy color…).

What should have been a simple toilet repair (I was changing out the plunger thingy that keeps the water in the tank and the ball thingy that opens the water line to fill back up the tank) turned in to a nightmare that took almost three hours to complete. The job should have taken under an hour from start to finish and if all three bolts had come off like the first two, would have been done in under 30 minutes.

I’ve done it before, its simple. Turn off the water to the tank, flush the toilet to mostly drain the tank, disconnect the water line from the tank (have plenty of towels, bucket, sponge… on hand), remove brass bolts and remove the tank from the toilet. Replace hardware inside tank, place tank back on toilet, put *new* brass bolts in place and tighten down (not so tight as to crack the porcelain). Reconnect water line according to type and turn water back on. BAM! Providing I put everything on in the correct order, no leaks, quiet toilet (before it was leaking like a sieve and running constantly!).

That was not the case last night. Apparently, the rubber gasket around one bolt had a crack, split, defect or something and it was allowing water to slowly (ever so slowly) to leak on to the bolt. The nut was rusted tight. The slot for the screwdriver was corrodid beyond belief. I sat there for close to an hour with a hacksaw blade (wrapped in a hand towel because I couldn’t use the actual saw…) sawing away at the bolt between the tank and the bowl. Finally after much rocking, sawing, cursing, swearing and general frustration, I was able to break the bolt in half and I found the green slimy mess. After that, it was cake!

Maybe next time I’ll call the Colonel!

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Ever wanted to post a quiz directly on your blog or myspace page but you didn’t have the foggiest clue how to do it? Well, with Quibblo you can post as many MySpace quizzes as you want in the littlest amount of time. Whats easier than cutting and pasting?? NOTHING! NOTHING I SAY!

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I’ve received a couple of emails so far this political season regarding a candidate for the republican nomination (I vote republican though I tend to be more libertarian). Mike Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas and a decent bass player wants your votes. So far, unless Thompson comes up with something earth shattering, he’d going to receive mine.

He’s christian (did you see his excellent response to the question of evolution, he believes in the fair tax and he seems to be a pretty down to earth, normal guy. Could that be so bad for the country? He believes in smaller government, letting people be people and in putting the country back on the right path.

As governor, he helped bring Arkansas back in school education with some good reforms, he brought tax reform to the state and he implemented programs that benefited children across Arkansas as well. I think he’s at least worth looking at when it comes to picking the next leader of our country. What do you think?

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