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Basement Excavation
March 23, 2004

We've been getting water in our basement for years, and we finally did something about it.

A plastic water-powered timer had been hooked to the hose line for use with the garden soaker hose a year or so before we moved in.  Rather than turning off the water with the spigot (which was broken), the timer was set to the off position.  So in the winter, the water that was in the timer froze, expanded, and cracked the plastic on the timer.  When the temperature cooled off, the water started to flow again, and ran straight into the ground outside the house.  There was just so much water that it ran deep into the ground and found an easy way into the basement.

iScam CD
March 23, 2004

I traded in all of the Pepsi bottle cap codes for iTunes, and I've created a full CD of music to listen to.

I don't vouch for any of the artists on this list.  They're all something that sounded vaguely interesting to me at one point or another.

Nostalgia
March 23, 2004

I went back through some of my Asymptomatic archives today looking for some things, and read some of the old stuff there.

I have a lot of writing offline from when Asy was back in its infancy.  I used to run the site on a $5/month Linux hosting service with no content management software.  All of the articles are individual files.  I have stuff dating back to 1999.