Paused the DVR while we put the kids to bed. DVR restarted and wife was devasted to miss the halftime show. Luckily I found the YouTube link to it and now we’re Chromecasting it like nothing happened. Technology is weird.

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So the moral of the story is don’t store alarms with the battery inside them and forget about them.

Then I remembered we had an old battery powered carbon monoxide detector at the old house. After going through a few boxes I found it. That was indeed where the chirping was coming from. Haha I cracked the case!

So my last resort was to go to Google and see if there was any thing I could do that I wasn’t thinking of.

I went upstairs. Maybe the chirping wasn’t coming from the basement after all? I still heard the chirping but it wasn’t as loud. Maybe I should switch one of the alarms upstairs with one downstairs I thought. That didn’t fix the problem.

I started popping up the tiles to our drop ceiling and seeing if there was a smoke alarm in between the floor and the tiles. Nope there was nothing there.

The Case of the Mysterious Chirp

The past few days one of our smoke alarms started doing that low-battery chirp every 90 seconds. I didn’t have time to deal with it until today.

Took down the smoke alarm closest to where the chirp was coming from. It was hard wired with a sealed non-replaceable battery. So that wasn’t it.

I looked around the basement and found a carbon monoxide detector but that didn’t have a battery in it so that wasn’t it.

Woooo it’s Superbowl day. Go Red team!

If you had to build a physical manifestation of your webpack config twitter.com/SteveStreza/status/1…

3. I wrote 3 whole checks last year. Looks like people wrote me 9 physical checks last year that I deposited.

Fun times in personal finance trends.

Does the Geocities/Angel Fire web page builder count? twitter.com/GonzoHacker/status/1…

Guess how many checks (like from a checkbox) I wrote last year?

It’s Saturday night! I could work on side projects or catch up on TV shows or clean up the house a bit or read a book

But nope. I’m doing my taxes.

Oatmeal cookies = gross
Oatmeal creme pies = yum

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Does anyone know of a #WordPress forms plugin that lets you completely control the form markup but still does the backend processing and saving of the submitted data?

Put money in a jar whenever you work on your side projects. When you launch the project you get all the money as a treat.

Enter phone number
Wait for verification text
Never comes
Try a verification call
Never comes
Call customer service
“What is your mobile carrier? T-Mobile? Oh they block us sometimes. You should call and complain to them.”

Uh… No! Get a verification service that works.

OMG! How did I not know this one simple trick to scroll horizontally with a basic mouse. twitter.com/Jonnotie/status/1221…