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	<title>Geeky Ramblings &#187; Home</title>
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		<title>Real Estate Appraisals</title>
		<link>http://www.geekyramblings.net/2009/12/07/real-estate-appraisals/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 17:30:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[appraisal]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[A recent experience has got me wondering how many errors are made in the home mortgage industry.
Ginny and I are in the process of applying for a Home Equity Line of Credit (HELOC) so we can do some improvements to the house in the next few years.
As part of the HELOC application, they did an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Roomba</title>
		<link>http://www.geekyramblings.net/2009/07/04/roomba/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:37:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Thanks to a hint given to me by a twitter friend, we purchased a refurbished Roomba 530 from Woot last week.
The unit arrived on Thursday &#8230; and I plugged it in to get it charging as soon as I got home.  I positioned the charging base in the corner of the dining room which is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Frozen Sump Pump</title>
		<link>http://www.geekyramblings.net/2008/12/28/frozen-sump-pump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 28 Dec 2008 16:19:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[flood]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[frozen pipe]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[As I mentioned a few days ago in twitter, the outflow pipe of our sump pump froze.
I had gone down stairs to get something from the utility room and found that the sump pump was running &#8230; and didn&#8217;t stop.  The pump sounded OK, but no water was draining from the pit.  I turned the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Installing Hardwood Floor</title>
		<link>http://www.geekyramblings.net/2008/10/24/installing-hardwood-floor/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Oct 2008 16:47:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[floor]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[power tools]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Kind of a busy two weeks &#8230; Ginny and I were on vacation.  Because of the cost of our last vacation (England &#38; Ireland), we decided to make this a &#8220;Staycation&#8221; &#8230; basically stayed home and didn&#8217;t go anywhere big.
One of the things we wanted to was finish the floor in the smallest bedroom.  This [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Testing the sump pump</title>
		<link>http://www.geekyramblings.net/2008/09/13/testing-the-sump-pump/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Sep 2008 15:22:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[weather]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.geekyramblings.net/?p=660</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Considering the weather today, it seems to be a fine time to test the Aquanot backup sump pump.
It&#8217;s taking quite a while for the water level to go high enough in the pit.  I&#8217;m a bit worried that the float on the pump is too high.
Problem here is that once the water goes over [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HVAC</title>
		<link>http://www.geekyramblings.net/2008/08/03/hvac/</link>
		<comments>http://www.geekyramblings.net/2008/08/03/hvac/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Aug 2008 15:38:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.geekyramblings.org/?p=629</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Ginny and I decided to get a new furnace &#38; air conditioner this year &#8230; with the price of natural gas going up, we figured it would probably make sense to get a more efficient furnace &#8230; and our A/C has always been kind of wimpy.
As I always try to do, I got at least [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Foundation Sealing</title>
		<link>http://www.geekyramblings.net/2008/03/08/foundation-sealing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 08 Mar 2008 16:23:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[flooding]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Last year, when we were having the heavy rains, I noticed there was some water coming into our basement &#8230; not a lot, but enough to be worrying.  Ginny and I did a bit of investigating and found that water was pooling near the foundation of our house.  We figured it had to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Unsprung Spring</title>
		<link>http://www.geekyramblings.net/2008/02/17/unsprung-spring/</link>
		<comments>http://www.geekyramblings.net/2008/02/17/unsprung-spring/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 16:55:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[door]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[garage]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[springs]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Once again the joys of home ownership are manifest &#8230; this morning, as Ginny was leaving for church, she found that the garage door wouldn&#8217;t open.  It would come up part of the way, then stop.  I got dressed and went out to look at it and determined that something was clearly broken. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>ADT Finally</title>
		<link>http://www.geekyramblings.net/2007/11/05/adt-finally/</link>
		<comments>http://www.geekyramblings.net/2007/11/05/adt-finally/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Nov 2007 02:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well, ADT finally came and installed the new wireless backup unit.
Of course the upgrade wasn&#8217;t without it&#8217;s hitches &#8230;

The guy who came wasn&#8217;t exactly the picture of professionalism.  I assume he was a contractor and not a regular ADT field service engineer.
The analog wireless unit was originally mounted in the basement &#8230; where we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>In with the new</title>
		<link>http://www.geekyramblings.net/2007/07/21/in-with-the-new/</link>
		<comments>http://www.geekyramblings.net/2007/07/21/in-with-the-new/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jul 2007 23:59:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>david</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Home]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[asphalt]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[concrete]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[construction]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[driveway]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home improvements]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Well so far so good &#8230; the new driveway was poured today.  The construction crew, seven guys, were here fairly early and got to work immediately.  It took longer than I thought it would, but they sure knew what they were doing.
Here&#8217;s what the driveway looked before &#8230; it was pretty wavy and [...]]]></description>
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