Category: misc

Increase your gas mileage with nail polish remover

Maybe?
Wisebread has some info on how pure acetone (a.k.a nail polish remover) might increase your gas mileage by 10 mpg.


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Wisebread points out that because the acetone burns so hot it may ruin like gaskets and O-rings but how much will those gaskets and O-rings cost you compared to saving 10 mpg on gas I wonder?
I’d be interested to see how the acetone works in the long run with a car.
Anyone tried this with an older model vehicle?

Taxes Taxes Taxes

Well I paid my share of taxes this year – I owed $500+ to the government thanks to a bad W-4 form when I went to work at the paper. Sure wish someone would have caught that a year and a half ago.
Apparently “head of household” doesn’t count unless you have kids. I would assume that as a single man, running my share of my household I would be the head of my household. The IRS didn’t see it that way and now they want me to pay them more money.
Sure hope it goes to a soldier needing armor for his Humvee or feeding a starving kid somewhere rather than useless government bureaucracy.
In other tax news I helped my dad finish some of his taxes with Turbo Tax with the help of Team Viewer. He was having trouble printing his return and I knew there was no way I’d be able to walk him through it over the phone. Especially without seeing it myself. So I walked him through the setup and we went to work and I had him back and running again soon.
Check out Team Viewer anytime you need to do family phone support. It’s free and your family members will thank you – so will your patience ;-).

Top pages on Casa de Blundell

In case you were wondering… here are the top pages being visited on Casa de Blundell this month…


casadeblundell.com/jonathan
casadeblundell.com/laurie
casadeblundell.com
casadeblundell.com/about.htm
casadeblundell.com/registry.htm
casadeblundell.com/wedding-info.htm
casadeblundell.com/photos.htm
casadeblundell.com/contact-us.htm

One year ago today

Let’s see what I was blogging about one year ago today…
Nothing. Doh!
Sunday’s are never very strong blogging days for me. So in reality that’s not a surprise, but here’s what I was blogging about on April 15, 2006 and April 17, 2006:

April 15:

  • Fun Videos – Guy fights himself with tiny energy balls
    Star Wars kid goes Matrix
    High School Star Wars – really great editing
  • Happy Easter – Evangel Temple had an outreach today on the east side of Waxahachie for the kids in the neighborhood. Between 200 to 300 kids showed up to hunt Easter eggs and meet the Waxahachie FD, Police Dept and Easter Bunny.
  • Mike McIlvain Blogging – Mike McIlvain has gotten into the blogging world now.
    Check him out. I imagine he’ll have some great world wide pics.

April 17, 2006:

  • Letter from a friend – A local artist and art teacher sent me this email today. Thought it was worth sharing.
    This is a letter of mine that my daughter put on her blog.
    As a mother, teacher, artist, and citizen I feel very strongly about this issue. Would you be comfortable passing it along?
  • UMHB steals the show at TIPA – UMHB just took home a ton of awards from the Texas Intercollegiate Press Association. Congrats to all the winners.
  • U2 #1 with One – The BBC reports that a line from U2’s One topped the charts as the number one lyric this year in a VH1 poll.
    The song was originally released in 1992 – and the CD single was the first CD I ever bought.

So there you have it… 2006 in review

Iraq and Al Qaeda

Last week a Pentagon report stated once and for all that there never was a substantive relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda.
The same day VP Dick Cheney was on Rush Limbaugh’s show and the VPOTUS stated again that there was a relationship between Iraq and Al Qaeda.
Do you think his staffers missed that memo?
Cheney’s been saying Iraq and Al Qaeda have been linked for years yet the Pentagon doesn’t seem to believe so.
Interesting.