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  1. LB log - 20140111

    As happened last time, the sump pump issue is resolved with nothing more than a twist of the screwdriver, and to tighten what became loose. The end. As a matter of habit, I tend to call my parents about these kind of things in case they have any wisdom or products to impart, and to keep them appraised of the situation, so they visited here to verify that the issue had this simple resolution.

    Before doing that, we went to the local pancake restaurant for a breakfast meet up, and the ...
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  2. LB log - 20140110

    The warm air did come as promised, as did the rain. There is a steady stream of water flowing into the sump pump basin - however, things seem to be relatively OK. The connecting gasket is not airtight and water still leaks down the pipe, but it's leaking back into the basin at a rate much slower than what is being kicked out by the pump. The pump is operational and not running constantly. The most I needed to do was to wedge a wet towel between the pump's pipe and the basin outer wall so that it ...
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  3. LB log - 20140109

    It turns out that there was a revision to the IRS 1040 XML schema on December 30 that I didn't become aware of until today. I made the call and, as I suspected, the initial response which I had mentioned as being wrong was marked as a closed case in their system. Thankfully, their response to the call I made today in an email came later today, so that was very much appreciated. The revision did seem to fix my problem as well; I resent the submission which gave an error last time and sure enough, ...
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  4. LB log - 20140108

    The length of pipe which goes out from the house to the ground is about four feet in length, but is covered in a plastic casing which leaves ample room for air to sit inside. I purchased my own pipe heating kit from a hardware store today, and once I held the device in my hands and read the instructions that I realized that I couldn't install the wire until the air temperature is 15 degrees, and that I likely would need to cut that plastic casing so that I could place the heating element onto the ...
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  5. LB log - 20140107

    At about 3AM this morning I heard a loud noise near the room I was in, as if it was some kind of scratching. It didn't take long for me to think of the sump pump nearby and wondered if that sound I heard was the same as I heard last time, and sure enough it was the issue at hand. It seems that some portion of the tubing has frozen up from the weather and now nothing can be pumped out. Before going to bed, I spent the remainder of my time scooping water out of the basin using a gallon milk jug which ...
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  6. LB log - 20140106

    It is never too cold to be hustled. I hope you two enjoy the $20 you got for coming to our house with your shovels in hand, and that your theft by abandonment means that I will turn everyone down from this point forward. I hope that $20 buys you both some like a nice case of Natty Light or a good pair of dime bags. Consider it my Christmas gift to you both.

    Tonight is meetup night for D3. Until this weekend my two co-players and I were on every night, and there was finally a break ...
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  7. LB log - 20140105

    The snow, oh the snow. So much snow. Will there be enough snow to fall tonight to compel the store to close tomorrow? I doubt it, though I think that overall it will be as bad at the upcoming point as it was a few years ago when the sudden snowstorm did force the store to close. I guess I'll find out.

    Songs. I woke up with my wife at 4AM so that I had enough time to do some shoveling before driving her to work, and I think I'm simply tired as of the point of the session and writing ...
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  8. LB log - 20140104

    The first portion of the day at work entailed me sorting through a lot of calendars, and I didn't manage to get it all set in place before I was called away to do other things. The store was subdued by heavy traffic in what's probably everyone nervously anticipating the coming weather, so it's just as well for me to have been out there to be of assistance.

    In light of the weather, I'm retiring a bit early so that I can wake up and shovel.

    Songs. Things looked a bit ...
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  9. LB log - 20140103

    Today wasn't all that good of a day overall. There was an incident at work in which I was given an extra task to do, and, long story short, I ended up accidentally throwing someone's hoodie into the trash compactor. I haven't yet faced any kind of disciplinary action, and I will want to strongly argue my side if it does in fact come, but that doesn't change the fact that I do feel sorry and awful for having committed the mistake. It wasn't intentional. This unfolded during my lunch hour, and sooner ...

    Updated 05 Jan 2014 at 12:21 AM by dog$

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  10. LB log - 20140102

    It seems that I may need to get a VGA-HDMI cord if I want to use my PS3 on the monitor that I have set up in front of my elliptical machine. Even though the PS3 has the same universal Sony output as the PS2 and PS1 has, putting that signal to the component-VGA converter box doesn't emit a signal when I have the PS3 on it. Also, I have a DVI-HDMI cord that I hooked up to the monitor directly, but it responded by showing "input not supported" on the screen. That's a bummer for now, but I ...
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  11. LB log - 20140101

    Stayed up way too late on the game, but I did it to get at least one of each class to 60. This process would have taken days on PC, unless I undertook multiboxing, and it only took a few hours to do on PS3. A waste of time either way is an opinion to have, but now that I've done this I can return the Cain's armor to my friends and not need to undertake that task ever again.

    For something to watch with dinner my wife put on the Doctor Who episode of The Christmas Invasion, which was ...
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  12. LB log - 20131231

    It seems that I didn't hit the post button properly for this entry, which I guess might be just as well because I probably would have forgotten about the end of the month glitch this does with predating a post. This time, though, there wasn't even a post in limbo so I'm not sure what I did wrong. I didn't even have anything to drink at this point. Weird. Oh well.

    2013 concludes with me sitting here in the basement writing this as my wife sleeps upstairs, as she was too tired to stay ...
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  13. LB log - 20131230

    The discipline I currently lack is that I willingly let myself sleep in on days where I know I'll have something to do after waking up, or at least not prioritizing things properly so that I can assuredly get my exercise done immediately and then get on with the rest of my day. Today's example is that I was up until 4AM with friends on D3, then was woken up at 11AM so that my wife and I could attend a showing of the second Hobbit movie. After doing that and spending the rest of the day so far on ...

    Updated 30 Dec 2013 at 09:32 PM by dog$

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  14. LB log - 20131229

    Short session today, had things to do and company to meet now.

    I figured I might as well cut it short before things take a turn for the worst after my play of New York. Squandering the small increases by failing Horizon and Broken My Heart didn't help matters.

    Lunar Beat. Extra Mode. Double play. "@" denotes Random chart modifier. All songs are of highest difficulty type unless specified.
    First line, by column; song title, EX score percentage and letter ...
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  15. LB log - 20131228

    I have become a recipient of a major set of gear in PS3 D3. My crit rate is still relatively low, but considering that I've received what I have mostly from donations and that I've still played the game for a grand total of a week, I think I'm extremely fortunate to be where I currently stand. Now, the question is how much farther can I push things.

    The weather was actually rather nice today, so when I was summoned to assist with getting some carts corralled, I didn't hesitate to ...
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