I put this together for you, today, Claude. Enjoy.

Here’s what I accomplished tonight:

(from what it looked like Sunday, to yesterday, to right now)

Thanks to Jeff for pointing me to MixWit.com.

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Citing tough economic times, the West Bend School District is holding a “special board meeting” on Wednesday night at 5:30. They will reportedly postpone the West Bend School Referendum until at least February and perhaps longer.

(Source: WBKV)

The new server, that I was moved to about a month ago, experienced some problems over the weekend. My e-mail has been down since mid-way through the day on Sunday. It is actually back up now, but none of the emails that I would have received between about noon on Sunday and 4am Tuesday morning have found their way to my mailbox.

So… if you sent me something, please send it again.

Thanks!

I’m not in line with her politics, but this is friggin’ funny:

The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

Working in my bathroom, tonight, I came across a rather odd situation. I removed my electrical switch plate, and the switch shorted out. I had intentions of replacing the entire junction box, anyway, with a new three-gang box (I’m replacing the drywall).The wire wasn’t anything that I was expecting, though.

Current Setup
I have one two-gang box. One switch turns on the overhead light and the other turns on the light above the mirror. There is also a dial/timer switch that is separate from the other box that runs an electric heater.

My Plan
Remove the electric heater.
Put the power from that timer switch to a fan in the ceiling.
Install three-gang box and put all three switches into the three-gang box.
Live happily ever after.

Issue
What I ran into was one strand of 12-3 Romex running into the current two-gang box. One hot wire (black) goes to the top of one switch, the other (red) goes to the top of the other switch. A white neutral wire jumps from switch two to switch one and then the white runs back to the main box. The ground wire is grounded to the box.

Questions
1. Do I need to replace the wire with two strands of 12-2?
2. If not, do I jump the new setup the same way that the old setup was jumped? That doesn’t seem code worthy.
3. Any other advice?

Photo
Here is a photo of the switch.

What a horrendous weekend for sports in Wisconsin. First, the Badgers get beat by Ohio State. Then the Brewers get knocked out of the playoffs. While that was going on, the Packers were getting beat at home by the Falcons (Mason Crosby - FAIL). And a little while ago, Matt Kenseth got caught up in a big wreck at Talledaga.

Oh, and my Fantasy Football Team is getting trounced again this week. I had possibly one of the best rosters ever… but thanks to injuries, it’s been feeble.

This weekend wasn’t pretty.

Just testing out “Twitterfeed.” Go Brewers! Go Badgers! Go Home Improvement Projects!

If you haven’t seen this video, you should. Then, the next time that you hear anybody saying that “Bush’s failed policies” led to the downfall of the economy, remember what you see here:

Hat tip… just about everywhere.

My daughter, 4, was upset that I put a McCain sign in the front yard, so she drew up her own Obama sign and taped it up for the neighborhood to see.

From Iowahawk:

Congrats to friends of the show, Garrett and Laurie, on the birth of their baby girl, Kaitlyn Rose, today! 7lbs 9oz and 19-inches. Both mom and baby are doing great. Congratulations on the new family!

Here are three of my all-time Beastie Boys favs:

SeeqPod - Playable Search

All my dreams are dead.

A forwarded e-mail from Big Daddy Martin:

If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Nortel stock one year ago, it would
now be worth $49.00.
With Enron, you would have $16.50 left of the original $1,000.00.
With WorldCom, you would have less than $5.00 left.
If you had purchased $1,000.00 of Delta Air Lines stock you would have
$44.00 left.
If you had purchased United Airlines, you would have nothing left.
But, if you had purchased $1,000.00 worth of beer one year ago, drank
all the beer, then turned in the cans for the aluminum recycling refund,
you would have $214.00.
Based on the above, the best current investment advice is to drink
heavily and recycle.
This is called the 401-Keg Plan.

Twenty minutes into today’s remodeling project. Ouch!

For some reason, I like this song:

I just went to a marketing firm’s website and I was astonished by their terrible website:

1. The title on every page is, “Untitled Document.”
2. The horrendous flash open is 38 seconds long.
3. The horrendous flash open has obnoxious music that you can’t turn off.
4. The “skip intro” feature is impossible to see without scrolling down and rolling over a 25px wide graphic.
5. The header image creates rollover text in the body field that disappears (blank body area) upon rollout.
6. There is no phone number, address, email address, nada in the header/footer. You have to physically click on the “contact” link in order to get any info.
7. The portfolio page features a static flash document for each and every piece of their portfolio.
8. Each page in their portfolio is located in the root directory of the site. I’d hate to be their web guy (furthermore, I’d hate for them to be my web guy.)
9. Their services page just has a bunch of bullet points.
10. Their about us page has a bunch of text. (they should talk about more of what they can do for their client in the services page than what they do themselves in the about us page — in my humble opinion)

This company seems to have a lot of huge clients… which leads me to ask, “how big could they be if they did it right?”