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Yesterday, after enduring weeks of erratically lukewarm water, I submitted a ServiceMagic request for estimates on replacing our 40 gallon water heater.  We’ve been having trouble with the stupid thing for a while now, and since it recently reached its average lifespan (10 years), we figured it was time for a ...

''You would be just as married without a big fancy wedding,'' we are told.  But the thing we're never told — the thing no one ever says — is, ''That dead guy over there will be just as dead without a fancy casket.''  We don't buy the fancy caskets for the dead guy, do we?  Nope, we buy them for ourselves.  We want ...

My wife and I packed up the kids a couple of weekends ago and made our way to a ''starving artist'' art sale in Fort Collins.  These sales are a great way to find affordable art, especially art hand-painted by individuals lacking a basic understanding of perspective and proportion.  (And color.  And paint.  And ...