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A New Addition to the Family!

April 21, 2012

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Friday April, 20th was a special day for most people in the greater Boulder area, but for Matt and I it wasn’t due to the lingering aroma of hippies, yuppies, and wannabe hippies and yuppies.  Instead we bought our very first car together.  How adult is that? Very.  We are now parents to Stella the Subaru Outback 3.6R Limited in Sky Blue Metallic.  She’s a rare lady who likes to spend her days blasting the radio with the sunroof open, taking hairpin turns in the mountains, and sitting for eye candy on Pearl Street. Today Matt and I took her down to Colorado Springs to see my parents. ...

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Victory over the garage door

April 6, 2012

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Ever since we moved into our townhouse here in Lafayette, we have had a problem with our garage door.  It started as a simple nuisance of not being able to close the garage door if the sun was shining in.  My theory was that the sun was hitting the lens from the garage door sensor, causing the beam to be interrupted.  If the sensors were in the shade, then no problem.  As Megan put it, its "just a vampire garage."  I'm sure it didn't help that, when the house was built, they installed the cheapest garage door possible. I looked around online and people suggested that I use some pipe insulation...

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