Mr. and Mrs. Kraus Blog

The happiest day I had as a pool owner was the day I fired my pool care guy. He would constantly do a poor job, and I had reports from my neighbors that he would pull up to my house, get out of his truck, walk around the back, and leave after about 20 seconds without doing a thing.

This really started to tick me off after awhile so I decided I could do a better job, and I canned him. Little did I know just how terrible I would be at keeping my pool swimable. So today, after about 1 year of going it alone, I hired a new pool care guy– officially the new happiest day I have had as a pool owner.

I mean, I have guests coming to visit next month. Don’t they deserve the best, cleanest pool? I think so. I’ll cross my fingers and hope for the best with the new pool guy. His name is Bo, and he’s been doing pools for 19 years. I made it 1. He should be crazy good.

The last straw I had the other day, when I realized how much more green my pool was than clear or blue. Also, I found a lizard swimming in it, which just means there is no way there is enough chlorine in there. The day one realizes he hasn’t swam in his pool for 6 months, and there are small tropical climate creatures inhabiting it is kind of a wake up call. This is the first time I can remember literally throwing in the towel over something. I usually just keep trying harder until I have mastered the task at hand. Perhaps, with all the guests coming to visit in March I simply ran out of time. And so the lizard’s time has come.

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Comments from old site:

Written by Chad Kraus
Posted: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 at 6:47 AM

Bo knows Pools! It looks great!

Written by Aaron
Posted: Wednesday, March 7, 2007 at 6:46 AM

Chad, glad to hear the pool is all cleaned up. I can’t wait to get down to FL and spend all day by your pool.

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I spent a long time last night working on this website and I came to the conclusion that the differences between Internet Explorer (IE) and Firefox drive me nuts. For those who just said, “Huh?”, those are the two leading web browsers that most people use.

For example, one difference that can be found with this website is that currently there is an ugly gray color surrounding my comment icon in IE but not in Firefox. By the way I am using the silk icons from this guy. Thanks dude. Also, the white space between the navigation tabs and the page content is different in the two web browsers even though the code is the same.

Anyway, life would be much happier if I didn’t care about one type of browser or the other, but I do. When my sites don’t look identical in both it bothers me. Guess that’s a good reason for someone to hire me to do his/her site– I care.

Anyway, I’m working away on the site today. I really do enjoy it, which is why I’d do it on a Saturday.

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Comments from old site:

Written by Chad
Posted: Sunday, April 15, 2007 at 12:46 PM

On the contrary, there are quite a few successful blogs about such topics. Some of those sites actually make good money too and have a large base of readers. Sadly, this is not such a site. I can dream I guess…

Written by Lindsey (MOH)
Posted: Friday, April 13, 2007 at 10:46 PM

I’m sorry Chad, but blogs about the difference between computer stuff, just don’t work out. Mind-bottling, isn’t it?

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With all the wedding planning going on and the events that will follow, I was looking for a way to communicate with family and friends. I have decided to start a Mr. and Mrs. Kraus Blog.

Amanda and I are looking forward to sharing stories and experiences with family and friends. In time I hope to have a very nice, functional blogging system, which I am in the process of writing myself. I will be able to include pictures, and you all will be able to comment on our articles and pictures. In fact, I have a new flickr account which now houses our pics.

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Comments from old site:

Written by Chad Kraus
Posted: Friday, January 18, 2008 at 9:57 PM

I just added the ability to add a comment to an article from the same page as the specific article.

Written by Chad Kraus
Posted: Saturday, May 5, 2007 at 9:14 PM

I added more images and an rss feed!

Written by Chad Kraus
Posted: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 at 8:39 PM

I just added security codes because spammers were posting comments on my articles!

Written by Chad Kraus
Posted: Saturday, February 24, 2007 at 3:59 PM

You guys can leave comments now. Give it a try, it’s fun!

http://www.mrandmrskraus.com

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