My wife and I, along with her brother, sister, and brother-in-law are all planning a trip to Hawaii in a few months. We’ve booked a cruise on Norwegian’s “Pride of Aloha”. It will take us from Honolulu, Oahu to Nawiliwili,…
Gas Mistake
Doh! I drove by a gas station on the way to lunch and saw that it was proced at $2.519. I KNEW I should stop. I’ll have to either fill up right after work, or just before I get home,…
Advice for Prospective Home Buyers
If you’re looking at houses, with the intent to buy one, I want to give you some advice that will save you many many hours of hard work. If the house has wallpaper, don’t buy it unless you really like…
I Apologize
I just learned that writing phone numbers with periods (ie. 201.555.1234) is considered “chic”, and “European”. I’ve been doing it for a while to be different. I didn’t realize this was the “in thing” to do. Now that I know,…
English Lesson (Please excuse this rant)
Teacher is to Student as Mentor is to Protégé. It’s not “Mentee”, it’s “Protégé.” I’m not a language Nazi, but I do dislike it when words are made up to replace other words that work just fine. I think that…
Sweet Ride
I got word that my Father-in-Law picked up his latest car. It’s one of these babies. In fact, he got the last one. (The one pictured is not his, I haven’t had a chance to see his yet). That’s the…
Eco-Activists
This is an “I’m bored” post. I have nothing to do, so I’m posting this. Last night our doorbell rang. I went to the door and peaked out, unseen by the visitor. It was a guy with long, almost rastafarian…
The Weekend Flew By
Quite literally my weekend flew by. I think I’ve mentioned a few times that I have been in training for my private pilot’s license. Saturday was my first Solo cross country flight. I’ve been trying to get it in for…
Lifetime Boycotts
See Plastic Bugs for an explanation: Mopar McDonalds (Burgers only, shakes and fries don’t apply) TGI Friday’s Fresca
Question Answered
The Comcast guy was just here regarding the snipped wire incident I had last week. I had fixed the wire myself, but them to put one of their nicer connectors on the wire to make sure I wouldn’t get static…
Internet Frustrations
Yesterday I had some time with nothing to do at work, so I was logged into my home computer and doing a few frivolous things. Then in the early to mid afternoon, the connections just stopped. You may have noticed…
Minnesota Not-so-nice
When I got married, on New Year’s Day, I moved in to the house my wife had been living in already for over a year. She lived an hour away from where I was living when we met and while…
See, I Told You
Olive Tree Ministries is a Radio ministry based here in the Twin Cities area and is mostly local, although they air on a few stations that are out of state. Jan Markell does a pretty good job of discussing current…
Upgrade Status
As I posted last Monday, I have been working on server upgrades for the last week, moving to a new hard drive, and a newer version of Debian (Linux). Over the weekend I got the meat of the upgrade completed.…
Tons of Typos
Forgive my typos for a while. I’ve been pretty good about catching them, but I have a feeling some will slip through. On Sunday morning, before going to my cousin’s for “Easter” (Resurrection Sunday), I was doing a little work…