Yes, as an individual I would love to have less taxes. Less taxes give me more spending and saving money which makes life simpler. In reality though, I am a bit of an altruist. This streak in me makes me want the appropriate amount of taxes for everyone. I bring this up for 2 reasons. [...]
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Graphic Novel Review: Secret Identity by Kurt Busiek and Stuart Immonen
I haven’t been inspired to write down any book or movie reviews lately but I heard a recommendation about the Graphic Novel – Secret Identity and thought I would check it out. It’s a different take on Superman. The premise is that in our world, the world of no super powered any bodies, a family [...]
WordPress 2.7
WordPress is the blogging software I use on this blog. They have done a major rework of the management interface and some other bugs, features, tuning work. The UI is pretty good. I’ve been running it since RC1 and it’s stable and has some nifty features. If you are a blogger, I’d recommend the upgrade.
Bailouts
In watching various interviews regarding the US Government Bailouts of the Financial Industry and the one being discussed for the Auto Industry, I have some thoughts. One assumption that seems to be at the center of all of these bailouts is that these companies are too large to fail. I don’t agree. When a person [...]
Shop Layout
One of the things I’ve found that I spend a lot of time as a woodworker (hobby not professional) is organizing my shop. I’ve read that many hobby based woodworkers do the same. I suspect that my reasons for this is multi faceted. One reason is that my shop is relatively small. Another reason is [...]
Movie/Film Reviews
Reviewers, in general, are there to get as big of an audience as they can. Since I love movies, reviews, spoilers and the like, I have had a great deal of opportunity to listen, read, view many reviewers. In that time, my observations lead me to believe that most of them try to achieve audience [...]
Daily Self-discipline
A while back I posted something about Guitar Practice which was focused on the discipline needed to make different levels of progress. I’m still doing well with this but I thought that I should apply it to my overall day too. When you are full time parent like I am, you are busy when the [...]
What is Change?
Ok, we’ve just elected someone who defined himself and his candidacy based on change. What is it or really, what should change be? I’ve heard and read discussion that change is about bringing new approaches to everything. I think these written and spoken conversations define new approaches as something truly new and never been tried. [...]
Dear Mr. Obama
I voted for you. I saw and heard lots about hope and change. I certainly believe in these times we could use both. I saw and heard bits and pieces of your policies. Many of them sound smart. What I hope that you can deliver on though is something else. I would like to see [...]
Guitar Practice
So for the past three years, I have been actively working to learn how to play the guitar. My view on what this means has changed over these three years. When I first started, I wanted to learn to play chords so I could play campfire songs. My first year or so was with a [...]
Kitchen & Floor are done
We lived in a hotel for a few days while the floor was finished and dried. Man, it sure smells bad when a floor is refinished. The smell is almost all gone now and the floor looks great. I’ve moved our dinette back into our nook. We are getting a new dining room set on [...]
Paint is done – floor is getting sanded
The Kitchen, Laundry Room, and various Hallways are all painted. I will probably have some trim touch up after the next step. The paint job actually looks pretty good. I’m not sure if I got all the drips but I cleaned up all the ones I found. The edges are crisp around trim so I [...]
Paint Changes
I painted the kitchen walls yesterday with our choice of yellow. It’s a friendly, inviting yellow that has mustard tones in it – not Dijon and not French’s yellow though. Once it was on the wall, Kathy began the process of changing her mind. She liked the Kitchen color but wanted to change the dining [...]
Time to Paint
The kitchen remodel that we are doing is going well – in fact, we may be ahead of schedule by a day or so. I’ve started to do some of the painting. Kathy and I have taken more risk than we’ve done before with color though it’s still pretty conservative. We are going with a [...]
Remodel Anxiety
Ok, when you go into a remodel of your house, your home, you are hopeful that the choices you make are the right ones. You are hopeful, that the design fits your personal style. You are hopeful, that the functionality is maximized. Ultimately, you are hopeful that the results will be everything that you want [...]