The Rekounas Blog

Two power tools that I really needed to get were a gas powered MTD 2-cycle trimmer and a gas powered Honda 5.5 HP pressure washer. I have a battery powered black and decked trimmer, but that sucks balls when you own 1.6 acres of mainly trees and bushes. I needed something with more [...]

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Back in November 2007, I purchased a PS3 and with the purchase came a choice of 5 Blue-ray discs. The form said to allow up to 8 weeks. We all know that is always full of shit. Finally they arrived today. The discs are:
Full Metal Jacket
Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse [...]

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Michelle and I came home last night from my parents house and we let the dog out to use the bathroom. I went straight to bed and Michelle followed shortly after. What we forgot to do was let the dog in. Opps! Well, living in the country, we have bears, foxes, [...]

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I wanted to use some plugins for my blog and I found a couple that I liked, but they had to use a widget ready theme. Since my theme wasn’t “widget ready”, I installed one that was.
How do you like?

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Last night, I met up with my wife and sister-in-law and her husband at a bar in Quispamsis. I hate bars! The band was good, but it was too loud for the space they were playing in. The floors were sticky and I think I smelled skunk every time the door was [...]

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The 2007 renovations are complete. Initially, we had the kitchen on our list but priorities shifted and we replaced the deck instead. The renovations include the following:

Replace 17 windows with new bigger windows
Replace kitchen and front door
Replace carpet in the living room and stairs with hardwood floors
Replace carpet in the basement with laminate [...]

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Currently, I have three forms of heat for my home. Electric water baseboard heaters with an electric boiler; Wood stove in the basement; Fireplace on the main floor.
I never have to turn on the heat in the basement. The main floor and the top floor stays around 18-20 C in the winter without [...]

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Right, so I kind of moved my blog. It is still on the same domain for the time begin just sitting under the /blog portion of my domain. If I do move my blog, I have no idea what to name it yet or what the tag line should be. I was [...]

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If you guessed Christmas music… ding, ding, ding, you are right.
I was grocery shopping today and the only annoying music on their stores system was Christmas music. It made me want to shove a carrot right into someone’s eye. Then compounded with the slow poke shoppers, it makes for wonderful ingredients of someone [...]

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I am in San Francisco having an awesome time so far! I present today at 3:15, which I have posted about before. Not really nervous, just excited. I will probably be posting my presentation here after I present it.

Michelle and I went sight seeing yesterday and we picked up tickets to [...]

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