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Unfortunately, my Jetta has a cracked radiator. The estimate that I received to fix it was $1,500 and $1,000 of it was for labor. I figured I’d save some money by doing the work myself. Today, I removed the radiator. Here’s a picture:

I created an executive dashboard of my overall energy expenditure. One of the graphs from it can be seen below. In this graph, you’ll find electricity, natural gas, and the aggregate (the red line). I’d like to overlay an average monthly temperature trendline on this graph, but it’s going to require me to install my own weather station (or a reliable source of data for my zipcode). Until then, here’s the graph at present:




I finally added the hardware to the garage cabinets. Here’s a picture:

Latest events

Author: Chris
  • Commute Tracker: Recorded commute stop time 06/26/2010 14:18:55 (2010-06-26 14:18:55)
  • Electric Bill Recorded: Bill amount of $149.31 for 1478kWh used during 31 days of service. (2010-08-02 12:52:12)
  • Security System: Kitchen/Garage door closed (2010-06-12 23:04:15)

Awesome DIY CNC machine

Author: Chris

I just ran across this amazing DIY three-axis CNC machine on instructables.com:

I’m definitely going to build this beast in the near future.


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I created an energy usage summary webpage to give me an ‘executive dashboard’ of my home energy usage.

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