Everybody wants to be a telecommuter
Until it’s time to do telecommuter things
Such as…
- Moving to a really small town
- Discovering you’ll never eat what you’re used to again unless you learn to cook it yourself
- Keeping yourself busy learning random stuff along the way
- Replacing your social life with the gym
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My 2005 diesel F350 is a wonderful vehicle, but the interior plastic bits are around 20 years old, and decades of sun embrittlement have been taking their toll. Worse, Ford changes around their interior pieces periodically, so parts from new…
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Chicken and steak quesadillas
As a San Diegan, Mexican food is part of my core food groups. There are supposed to be four or five food groups, depending on when you attended school over the last few decades. Well, if you lived in California,…
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Chicken bake sandwiches
This was a relatively quick lunch for my kids, taking roughly 20 minutes to make (while weighing ingredients and taking pictures). I expect that someone who’s reasonably on top of their game can bang this out in 15 without rushing.…
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Dog fur pusher for Ryobi PCL705 hand vacuum
So, I recently got tired of having to reach into my trusty Ryobi PCL705 vacuum cleaner to remove dog fur, and I designed and printed a tool to do it for me. With my two and a half dogs (two…
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Decibel Meters For Autistic Kids
If your kids are on the autism spectrum, and are verbal, there’s an excellent chance that voice volume control is one of their challenges. It certainly is the case for my kids, and has been a challenge for me as…
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Cable machine weight stacks are lying to you
So, I very much like to know exactly what I’m doing in the gym. Free weights are the gold standard for being reproducible, but there’s something to be said for the convenience of cable-based weight machines and their weight stacks…
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New wireless, old camera
Disclosure: Affiliate links in article; if you purchase something from an Amazon link on this page, I’ll receive a small amount from Amazon. Over the course of my almost-15-years working for Sony Electronics, I acquired quite a few cameras –…
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Weights of the Bars At Ozark Health & Fitness Center
So, this is not going to be of much interest to folks who aren’t working out at the same gym I go to (Ozark Health & Fitness Center). I find myself hauling bars over to the scale every now and…
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Making 3 Open Face Subs For $2.50 in 2024
A friend was recently complaining on Facebook about how basic fast food sandwiches are no longer $1. I certainly share in the annoyance of fast food inflation, but this made me realize that folks may not be familiar with the…
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Eat that in a small town
One of the things I focus on at Newton Publications are things that you miss from the big city, and what to do about it. If you describe what you’re missing to the locals, it seems irrelevant to them, because…
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