I fixed my garage door. I used the only repair technique I know: doing nothing. The garage door has started working correctly again, and all is copasetic.

Now to see if I can fix the fan in the bathroom in a much similar manner.

This is my first foray into “Web 2.0″:

I’m excited that we’ve re-coined piracy as the next Internet. You know, because it uses asynchronous javascript. That makes it OK.

Closing my garage door has become a game of skill.

As of yesterday, it has decided that upon closing it should freak out and go back up (as if it hit something on the way down). I did a periphreal glance at the controls I could see and didn’t find an easy “stop freaking out” button, though there was a button labeled “learn button” which I was tempted to press (would it learn something, or would I learn about the garage door opener ?)

So, I had to play around with it for a while to figure out what to do. I realized that if I let it lower, there’s about a half-second before it does it’s little go-back-up thing. If I push the button again at that second, it disables the lowering so that it doesn’t go back up.

If I hit it too soon, the garage will be left partly open. If I hit it too late, the garage door will start going back up, and the lights blink on and off quickly (this, I believe, is to alert you your child has just been crushed by the garage door).

It is a good thing I was raised playing video games or I would not have the mad skills to hit that button.

Things that are mythical:

• The land of Narnia
• Easter Bunny
• Boren Avenue

I swear Boren Avenue only exists if you mistakenly turn down it when lost.

The most misused apostrophes per square foot would definitely be any state fair. Absolutely anything ending with an s gets one.

At least they had funnel cake!