From the monthly archives:

December 2008

It’s Easy to Let Things Slip

by That One Caveman on December 3, 2008

Three years from now when I look back on finishing our basement, I’m probably going to say it was a financial mistake. What was originally going to be a $9,000 project has easily cost us at least $13,000 if not more. The careful planning and budgeting we set up before starting this project [...]

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One Week Without Cable – The Good and the Bad

by That One Caveman on December 2, 2008

Cut the cable

One week ago this morning, Charter came out and blithely disconnected my cable TV service (and internet service, temporarily). The next evening, I made the final connections to serve the free over-the-air TV I was pulling from my new antenna to the TVs in the house. And thus our experiment began.
Immediately upon unplugging [...]

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Book Review & Giveaway: Killing Sacred Cows

by That One Caveman on December 1, 2008

A month ago, I was contacted about doing a book review for an oddly-titled book, Killing Sacred Cows. With a title like that, how could I refuse? Initially, I was taken aback by some of the claims and ideas author Garrett B. Gunderson proposed, but as I got deeper into the book, I began [...]

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