By Jan Dembowski on November 11, 2008
We thought we had a little leak in the shower faucet. After we started looking at the damage it became apparent that it was much more than we thought.
The ceiling in the living room below was showing some water damage but not like this. The board behind the tiles was not water proof, so very [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged house, leak, shower
By Jan Dembowski on September 7, 2008
I’m a sucker for the old games. For me the id super pack was too much to pass. It comes with virtually every id game up to and including DOOM 3: Resurrection of Evil.
When Steam came out, the idea of downloading games from the Internet was just plain silly. Now I can get games via [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged FPS, Games, id software
By Jan Dembowski on September 6, 2008
Yesterday when Lily and I got home, we went and took in the patio umbrella. My parents had taken most of the stuff from outside already so I did not have much to take in.
Good thing we did that. Go into your shower and put the water on to it’s maximum pressure and speed. It [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Hanna, rain
By Jan Dembowski on August 28, 2008
This morning we had no dead yellow jackets in the bedroom. We got home after 7 PM tonight and found two new one’s on the carpet next to the door of the closet. They were both dead but that means at least this morning some of them were alive enough to get out of the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged exterminator, yellow jackets
By Jan Dembowski on August 27, 2008
A picture tells the story.
There were 65 dead ones, mostly around the windows. Yellow jackets die off quickly and try to get out via the windows.
Friday we will open up the closet. I’m betting there will be well over 200 hundred dead ones.
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged exterminator, yellow jackets
By Jan Dembowski on August 16, 2008
The U.S. Swim team just got another gold. Michael Phelps has gotten 8 gold medals.
Posted in Asides, Uncategorized | Tagged Olympics, Sports
By Jan Dembowski on August 15, 2008
Phelps just won another gold, it was a 1/100 of a second win!
Posted in Asides, Uncategorized | Tagged Olympics, Sports
By Jan Dembowski on August 14, 2008
I killed my Blackberry 8100. I was caught in a downpour from 24th Street and Park Avenue South to 32nd Street and 7th Avenue. I’m charging up one of my old Motorola junkers but soon I have to get a new iPhone 3G. Update: Phone is dry now and working. No iPhone yet.
Posted in Asides, Uncategorized | Tagged iphone, rain
By Jan Dembowski on August 10, 2008
“The Americans? We’re going to smash them. That’s what we came here for”
-Alain Bernard
I keep watching the DVR. On behalf of all the fans of the U.S. swimming team: Thank you for motivating our Olympic team. That was some relay race. It came down to 8/100s of a second!
Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged Olympics, swim team
By Jan Dembowski on July 12, 2008
It’s been reported that Tony Snow passed away. I’m very sorry for his family and friends; I did not agree with his White House work but he was always lively and often entertaining.
Posted in Asides, Uncategorized | Tagged cancer, Tony Snow
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