I’m not sure if I’ve mentioned this at all or very often in this blog but Kathy and I are doing a large remodel of our kitchen, dining room, and laundry/mud room. So far, I must say that the company we hired to do this job has some really hard working folks. I think they [...]
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Small Project
Kathy and I like having a white board and a place to hang things (via magnets or such). We came up with a space in our Laundry Room/Mud Room to hang it so that defined the size. I’ve taken a quick and dirty way of making something for the space by combining two inexpensive boards. [...]
Politics are aggravating!
In my few years of voting, I have rarely seen that voting for one candidate versus another would radically change things. First, most candidates have little leverage to do things. Governors and Presidents may be an exception, at least somewhat. Next, even if a candidate can do things the views of one candidate overlap the [...]
Imperfect Candidate for President
I was talking Presidential politics with my brother today. My brother is very opinionated and even passionate in his cynicism…errrr…viewpoint. I can’t say that all that cynicism is unfounded though. As I’ve stated in past posts, I am rooting for Barak Obama. I even spent a bunch of time this week watching the DNC showing [...]
New Workbench
Recently, Matt from Matt’s Basement Workshop podcast (go find it on iTunes) had talked about replacing his workbench. It motivated me to try the same. I had a workbench that was collapsable which was a benefit since my shop is small. After looking at it and considering the actual workspace on the bench, I decided [...]
Decisions
I’m not the sort that loves to discuss politics (outside of this blog of course) but I also don’t steer away from it. In my occasional discussions, I find there are a few sorts of people with regards to political discussions. One type are people that seem to relish talking politics. Sometimes, these people are [...]
Remodel Stress
Even though we are a smidge more than a month away from our big Kitchen Remodel, the stress has already begun. Late last week, we found that fixing our current refrigerator would cost nearly as much as buying a new one. This fridge was going to the garage. Because we are far enough away, we [...]
Paint Color
Kathy totally disagrees with me on this but I believe that I have a decent color sense. Mind you, I can be lazy with regards to pick clothing but that doesn’t mean I don’t know things don’t work. Also, I can’t give you the accurate color name but again it doesn’t mean that I can [...]
Politics and Family
I touched base with my folks yesterday. I probably talk to my Mom (sometimes my Dad though he’s not much of a talker and never really has been) once a week on average. They travel during the summer (since living in a dessert gets really hot during the summer) so it may be slightly less [...]
Yesterday, a friend of ours popped out of the blue via Facebook. It’s great to hear from old friends and see how their families are doing. Via this friend, we found a few other old friends too. This is great as I haven’t really been using Facebook for anything more than playing games with Kathy. [...]
Figuring out how to get my fri…
Figuring out how to get my friends on twitter so it can be useful/fun!
WordPress on iPod Touch
I am trying the new WordPress application for the iPod Touch/iPhone. It as simple to set up. The keyboard makes it hard enough that I am not likely to post very often.
Vista and Fusion
I’ve just setup up a new virtual machine under VMWare’s Fusion. Since Kathy has been having good luck with Vista, I decided to take the plunge too and used Vista SP1 for this new virtual machine. My purpose for this installation is to run a few simple programs that I have yet to shed myself [...]
WordPress Upgrade
Upgraded both my blog and our Family Twitter blog to the latest WordPress release which is version 2.6. I immediately had a problem with a plugin (WP-DowloadManager from GamerZ). After going to the plugin site which had a discussion forum, they had already found out that WP 2.6 is now using the same function name [...]
Apple’s iPod Touch and Mobile Me
Like many users of an iPod Touch (or iPhone though I don’t have one of those – because of AT&T) and Mac computers, I’ve been waiting for some updates. For the Mac computers, we’ve been waiting for Mobile Me updates which will allow for push updates of mail, calendar, contacts across multiple computers and updated [...]