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This man runs a for-profit business using recycled materials (UPcycled as people say now, it seems, for things that have been reused) to build homes for low-income families.

Be sure to see the pictures

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QUICK!

What's that song in the background? I had it running in my mind for AGES a few years back, but of course one can't identify a song easily if one doesn't know the words!

I HAVE HAD IT WITH MY PHONE

For the love of heck, I can NOT figure out how to CALL somebody unless they call me FIRST or are listed in my CONTACTS and it is driving me CRAZY.

New phone. Gah.

It's Verizon, it's white all over, it doesn't flip open, it has a stylus. Anybody know what the heck kinda phone that is and how to use it before I decide to throw it out the window? On the boat? Into the bay?

Thanks for the song ID!

And now for something a little more serious. I don't want to be rude, but recently several people have commented whom I couldn't immediately identify. Not spammers - gosh, I can deal with *them* - but I feel awkward! Do I know you? Do I not know you, but you found me here or there? I don't know!

Even if you think I ought to know you (your username is very similar to your username elsewhere, say), that doesn't mean I know that. It can take me a while to figure out that the same person posting on several different sites is not several different people. I don't know, I can be slow that way.

So I'm actively asking anybody who has been reading (and/or commenting) for a while to step up and actively introduce yourselves. If you don't want to, please just give a minor blurb (you can make it up, I'm seriously not checking references) when you first comment, as in "I'm so-and-so" or "I found you when you commented here/I googled this". I'll just feel vaguely better.

Thanks so much!

And to the pizza boy: You try walking off with seven dollars in MY CHANGE again and I won't give you any tip. Even if you think you deserve it, you're supposed to ask.