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The UPS I bought years ago at Costco seemed to go on the fritz: the display was blinking nonstop, and it seemed like it was cycling the power on some of its outlets, even. A stereo amp plugged into it would periodically turn on during this, as if it had
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Months ago, while doing the lawn, we noticed some (what seemed to be) poop on the top of the large air conditioning compressor unit next to the house. Weeks later...even more. We don't have any dogs these days (and no way miniature dachshunds can get up on
home
Ames got a cut of his own by Kelly a few days ago. All of the scissors on Amazon were showing delivery dates weeks in the future, so I ordered from Sally. Even then, they didn't ship until over a week after the order..but I still got
travel
First off, I had to comment on how sweet this hotel (Hotel Wailea) has been. It's visually pretty cool, with things like this big circular lobby: …or viewed from down below: The building is open to the outside. There are glass partial walls in all of these..but
babymoon
We made it to our #babymoon! Corbett and I planned this trip as a sort of "last hurrah," and something super relaxing before things get busy with baby classes, appointments every two weeks, and the home stretch before Baby Klempay comes. We are splitting our week between two
travel
A couple of weeks ago we were in Kansas, and stopped to visit my favorite teacher, Dr. Nixon. My high school trip to Italy was with his history seminar class, and I think he still goes almost every year. He knows his stuff. We mentioned we had an open afternoon
travel
I had meant to post an overview post before leaving home, but travel lately has been hectic. As I type this, we’ve already been in Rome for a day. We’ve come over for Vanessa & Kevin’s wedding, which will take place a few hours NE of here
honeymoon
Originally, we planned to post a bunch more pictures directly on here after pulling all of the photos from all three (7D, RX100M4, Nexus 6P) cameras into Lightroom once back in Austin. I did pull them into Lightroom, totally ~1300 photos. Some of those photos are variations of one another,
travel
We get up tomorrow morning and head back home from Heathrow (through DFW). Our three week blur of a trip is pretty much at an end! It’s been great, but it will also be nice to get back to Austin and everything there (people/things/eating in a manner
travel
The last full day we spent in the south of France was in Avignon, where Kelly already filled everyone in on our hotel. When planning the trip, I had originally considered staying in Avignon for a few days, as it has some sights of its own, and would be a
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To contrast my last post, here are some images from our hotel in Paris. It is so different and unique, and nice, that we could barely remember the melamine fixtures from Avignon if it weren’t for our thorough photo record. We are staying at the Maison Souquet, which from
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Last time I wrote, I talked about how each day had been getting better and better, with more and more beautiful hotels and locations with every town we visited. Well, we broke our streak! Our hotel in Avignon brought us back down to Earth. We stayed at the Cloitre San