The kids have had some sort of cold for the past week but with kids, they never seem very sick. I have now gotten it and it’s nocked me on my backside. It’s the kind of thing that makes it impossible to breath and takes all your energy away. Hopefully, I can shake it soon [...]
Posts from ‘July, 2006’
Book Review: Danse Macabre by Larrell K Hamilton
I finished this book a bit ago and am just getting to the review. The last book I read by LKH was Mica and it was a simple book with simple energy. It was a good read that had a feel reminiscent of her early work. This book however resumes back where all the other [...]
System Update
I mentioned that I was updating my desktop. I just wanted to update you all since that was taking a bunch of my time. I finished that work and everything is up and running. Now I’ve got some normal life stuff to catch up on and as Kathy has mentioned to me – STOP SPENDING [...]
Ecto on the Mac
I use Ecto as my Blog publishing tool. It is a great tool. It makes it great to create, edit, change, and virtually everything I need to do to a blog entry. I have found that the interfaces it has with my WordPress site are less that wonderful though and I occassionally have to jump [...]
Remote Controls
I have a pretty nice home theater system. With such a system, you have a bunch of issues (cables, …) but the one I wanted to chat about today was remote controls. The obvious issue is that you have a million of them. I went the route of solving this by buying a Philips ProntoNG [...]
Movie Review – Pirates 2
Ok, I’m a little late in doing this review. I’m not quite understanding what Hollywood is trying to do with the movies they are putting out lately. I mean that I understand they are trying to do different things so they can get more people to the theaters but…these inordinately long films are not the [...]
Been busy…
I decided to update (slightly) my desktop system. I added a new internal drive (500gb) and an external drive (500gb) which would allow me to run a healthy system and back it up too. Of course in doing that it meant that I had to re-set it up from scratch (you know the routine, install [...]
Summertime
Summertime is a special time. It is especially so when your life involves kids. I remember my summertime’s as a kid. We would be with our friends and have free reign of our neighborhood. Sometimes, we would do nothing more than hang out and talk and have lunch over someone’s house and other times we [...]
TV Review – Eureka
I’m not actually done with watching the pilot yet (we’re about 2/3rds but we are heading to bead soon) but I thought I’d get a quick post out. Anyway, I think I’ve found another really interesting and truly odd show. The premise is that it’s about a town that has a bunch of scientists working [...]
Ikea furniture
I don’t know how many places have Ikea furniture (I imagine lots) but it’s basically European style furniture in kit form that is in a big warehouse. We decided to get some new furniture to clean up what was become quite a mess in our living room. You see, our living room has become our [...]
Book Review: Technogenesis by Syne Mitchell
I don’t get a lot of SciFi (real sci fi) authors to read that actually live around here. This Author actually lives pretty darn close to me. While I’m not actually likely to meet her, it’s always cool to think of great talent being nearby. This book is future based. The premise is about a [...]
Even small stuff is expensive…
I went to a woodworking store today to get some stuff that I thought would be relatively inexpensive. I mean none of it was big power tools or anything so I should be ok. My list was comprised of some items that made sense from a podcast I started listening to a while ago called [...]
No more DirecTV
After more than 12 years of having DirecTV, we have made the switch back to cable TV (in our case is Comcast). Our biggest issue is rain fade. It is due to the fact that we live in the extreme pacific northwest and have a lot of very tall trees south east of us (in [...]
Still no groove yet…
After our vacation, I still haven’t found a groove yet. I’m plenty busy with a variety of things (too busy actually) but I haven’t settled down into any rhythm. I actually feel like I’m living in totally interrupt driven mode and I’m not really liking it. I’m working through things on my list though it’s [...]
Movie Review: Superman Returns
OK, I admit it. I am a comic book geek. For much of my life I collected comic books (and in fact still have a big collection) and am a big fan of super hero comic books and any movies made about them. In fact, Superman is my favorite. I love the notion of a [...]