Cheerful Curmudgeon
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I don’t know how well it works (yet) but I just used the National Yellow Pages Consumer Choice & Opt-Out Site to decline all five of the big books that have been delivered to our doorstep annually. Several years ago, we cut the cord and terminated our AT&T home phone service, switching to [...]
Gas prices jumped again: $3.89 today and I know that Missouri’s prices are lower than many. I should count myself lucky; I work from home so I burn a lot less gas than most of my friends. I struggle to hang onto that warm, fuzzy feeling when I fill up my plane, though. The last [...]
If you have a lawn, check out Out of fashion: Green lawns at USA Today.
My venture into natural lawn care has produced a beautiful lawn, far exceeding my expectations. Let me tell you what I have done and then relate a funny (but true) story from Wednesday evening.
I had a soil analysis performed by the University of Missouri extension and, while waiting for the results, I applied some [...]
We have several “tufts” of tall-grass around the edge of our patio. Last year, I tried letting it go au naturel, which is a technical term meaning: I let it be and didn’t tend it at all. I didn’t like that. It looked scraggly pretty much all the time. So this year, I went back [...]
I’ve got over 7,300 square feet of grass outside my house. Who knew? Not me, that’s for sure!
Yesterday, I picked up a bag of Concern Weed Prevention Plus from Worm’s Way in Olivette, MO. I did that because, almost a year ago, our lawn care company stopped showing up to care [...]
Scorpio (Oct. 24 – Nov. 21) You will receive word today that you are eligible to win a million dollars in prizes. It will be from a magazine trying to get you to subscribe, and you’re just dumb enough to think you’ve got a chance to win. You’re a really slow learner. July 12, 1974 [...]
This article in Slashdot about the electronic trash that we create hit home. I cannot think of a good way to paraphrase it so here is the whole thing:
Every day, Americans toss out more than 350,000 cell phones and 130,000 computers, making electronic waste the fastest-growing part of the US [...]
Infoworld published 10 power-saving myths debunked. I admit that I assumed this myth was true.
Myth No. 7: Notebook batteries just wear out. There’s not much you can do to make them last longer.
Fact: Many laptops with nickel-cadmium batteries come with a battery-reconditioning utility that drains the battery fully, then brings [...]
It’s Earth Day so celebrate.
Go and get yourself a glass of clear, cool, refreshing water.
Sip and savor the cool wetness as it trickles back along your tongue.
Do your teeth feel cold, too?
Take a deep gulp.
Ahhhhh. That satisfies, doesn’t it?
Now celebrate again because you didn’t pay $0.79 for that privilege; [...]
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