Category: Putzing

  • Arrgghh – Plumbing

    Arrgghh – Plumbing

    I had a post prepared, I thought, but as I went through and re-read it, there were several points I wanted to make clearer. While I was pondering on how to do the rewrite my wife said, “I think the floor looks like it’s getting warped from water.”“I don’t see…

  • Deadline:  June 2022

    Deadline: June 2022

    Well, you learn something new everyday, doncha? Yesterday I found out that if you have a Chromebook it has an end-of-life date. John over at https://linesbyliming.com/ left me a comment about it so I had to look it up. It was so inexpensive at the time (I don’t remember the…

  • Positive Words

    Positive Words

    This is a list of words I had originally put together for a project my wife was doing when she worked in a “before and after school” childcare center. They made a board with pockets on it for each letter of the alphabet (You can make this game age-appropriate for…

  • A New Comment System and a Quiz

    I’m trying out a new WP comment system plugin called wpDiscuz. What I am hoping is that it will keep people’s comments from going into spam for no apparent reason. Or worse, as in the case of Bruce, over at Weave A Web never making it here at all. I…

  • Experimentation With WordPress And Parthenon Security

    Experimentation With WordPress And Parthenon Security

    I have several readers who still come here to the actual website to read my blog and I know that a couple of them have vision limitations.  So, what I’ve decided to try is using the “Classic Editor” plugin to write the posts in a larger font than is provided…

  • Curmudgeonly Monday – Odds & Ends

    Curmudgeonly Monday – Odds & Ends

    I seldom look at the stats for my site. I’ve always just kind of let things fly, but since I’ve met the WP reader I have been thinking a bit differently.  It appears that not too many of the readers actually go to the site and read, they just use…

  • Duck!

    Duck!

    I originally posted this on one of the earlier incarnations of this blog on 06/23/09. I didn’t re-post it on that date here because I have rewritten a few lines of it. It was, in fact, called, “Duck.” When we lived at the old house I used to have to…

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