Well, today is done, today was fun.

Tomorrow is another one.

Furnace pipe got a leak. Had to turn the whole thing off so it'd cool down and I could dry it off and caulk* it. Took forever for the house to warm up afterwards - brr!

But at least the caulk job seems to be holding.

* Well, it's plumber's putty.

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Walker’s anti-union law has labor reeling in Wisconsin

Spies Can Track You Just by Watching Your Phone’s Power Use

The Inspiration For Disney's Robin Hood Wasn't Actually Robin Hood

Militants, migrants and the Med: Europe's Libya problem

The wealthy are walling themselves off in cities increasingly segregated by class

Red Barns and White Barns: Why Rural Crime Skyrocketed in the Late 1800s.

The Widening War Against Boko Haram

Lots of users mean languages gain more words

Ukraine separatists celebrate Soviet holiday in Donetsk

The Ukrainian government disputes the rebels' claim that a heavy weapons pullback has begun.

Analysis: Ukraine forces outmanned, outgunned by rebels

Where the Holocaust is taught – and not taught – around the world

The Genetics of Being Injury-Prone

A study by Swedish researchers has found conditions like asthma, eczema and hay fever are less common in households practising ‘less efficient’ hand-washing

Jordan's Army Preps For A Bigger Role Against ISIS

Measles Continue to Spread, Reaching 154 Cases in 17 States

France seizes passports of six 'Syria-bound' citizens

Why 40-Year-Old Tech Is Still Running America’s Air Traffic Control

Plague Pandemic May Have Been Driven by Climate, Not Rats

Good News: More Crops! Bad News: More Plague!

CIA looks to expand its cyber espionage capabilities

Manatees Rescued After Mass Stranding in Storm Drain

Inmate standoff continues over prison conditions

Prisons are disproportionately black. The worst states are some of the whitest.

How Oregon's Second Largest City Vanished in a Day

Justice Department asks judge to halt immigration ruling, seeks appeal

Yemen's ousted president withdraws resignation

Republicans Claim Net Neutrality Will Mean Billions in New Taxes. That's Incredibly Misleading.

(no subject)

Evidence from more than 6,600 rape kits that went untested for years in Houston have turned up 850 hits in the FBI's nationwide database of DNA profiles

NSA director defends plan to maintain 'backdoors' into technology companies

Ad-blocking software is 'worse than Superfish'

The Pentagon will be deploying a small number of troops to Ukraine to provide combat medical training to forces there who have been battling Russian-backed separatists.

What Is Russia Up To in the Arctic?

How the NSA’s Firmware Hacking Works and Why It’s So Unsettling

Marijuana may be even safer than previously thought, researchers say

Mumbling Isn’t a Sign of Laziness—It’s a Clever Data-Compression Trick

Zombie bone-eating all-female harem-keeping worms at the bottom of the ocean.

A Romanian Scientist Claims to Have Developed Artificial Blood

Democrats want to add right to vote to the Constitution

US sea level north of New York City 'jumped by 128mm' (about 5 inches) in 2 years

Pakistanis face a deadline: Surrender fingerprints or give up cellphone

Dissidents say as many as 200 arrested in Cuba

Missing link in the form of a molar pegs hippos as evolutionary cousins to whales

CIA attempted to contact Hamas despite official US ban, spy cables reveal

Turns Out Boston Cyclists Can Engineer a Pretty Solid Snow Tunnel

A Thirsty, Violent World

Obama Administration Using Century-Old Racist Case Law to Block Citizenship

Boko Haram Militants Disguised as Women Caught by Nigerian Military

'Give HIV drugs to healthy gay men'

Prime Minister Tony Abbott says civil liberties must be sacrificed in order to protect Australians from attacks.

Researchers from Cambridge University have shown for the first time that it is possible to make human egg and sperm cells using skin from two adults of the same sex.

Coil in the upstairs oven broke.

Just snapped. I didn't even know it could do that. Well, google says I can fix it myself, so I'll try this weekend. The downstairs oven is hard to bake cookies in, much to everybody's dismay.

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Overfishing drives Thai boats to use more slave labor, sail further

Amnesty calls on UN powers to lose veto on genocide votes

Dependent Spouses of Highly Skilled Immigrant Workers to Get Work Permits

'Marg' vigilante group vows to safeguard northern Afghanistan from armed factions amid reports of ISIL infiltration.

Niger air force bombs fish traders thought to finance Boko Haram

Boko Haram Are Finally Losing. And That Makes Them Extra Dangerous.

Justices: Dentists can't decide who whitens your teeth

How Mice Turned Their Private Paradise Into A Terrifying Dystopia (read the sources at the end of the article too)

Cherry tycoon kills himself amid drug raid on factory

Molecular feedback loop gives clues to how flowers drop their petals

Tobacco kills up to two in every three smokers not one in every two, data from a large study suggests.

Austria passes 'Law on Islam' banning foreign money for Muslim groups

NYC’s Department of Education is introducing new restrictions on suspending and restraining kids in city schools.

Christian College Student Attacked With Apple for Questioning Treatment of Gays

99 Ebola cases in past week, nearly two-thirds in Sierra Leone: WHO

Cyprus signs deal to allow Russian navy to use ports

Justices defend Muslim girl in employment dispute

Devastation and disease after deadly Malawi floods

America’s Pain Killer Problem is Growing, Federal Data Shows

France says Russia would face more sanctions if Mariupol attacked

Hong Kong's teen activists vow to return to the streets

When your father is the BTK serial killer, forgiveness is not tidy

Skin may help spot Alzheimer's and Parkinson's disease

Syrian Kurds cut IS supply line near Iraq; fears for Christians mount

How People Around the World Eat Their Yogurt

Scientists discover theory-defying black hole 12 billion times the size of the Sun

NY governor's administration to raise tipped wage to $7.50