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It looks like we’re in for it again. The snows have begun and they say it could be another 20 inches. Wow. You know, after what happened over the weekend, I’m not exactly sure where we’re going to put the extra snow. Our sidewalks and shoulders are already full.
This is our street:

20 MORE [...]

Filed under: Life News on February 9th, 2010 | No Comments »

I have to say that this year has been the most snow I’ve ever seen in my life. That’s really not saying much since I spent my formative and most of my adult life living in Houston, but I’ve been in winter storms before. I’ve even been in one in Wyoming that had more snow [...]

Filed under: House, Life News on February 8th, 2010 | No Comments »

Late Wednesday night of our cruise, we arrived in Nassau, Bahamas – our first shore experience began shortly after. We docked around 9PM and were able to push our way out of the boat a half hour or so later.
Everything was closed.
Well, not everything. The Atlantis resort was open. We all piled in a [...]

Filed under: Life News, Photography, Scuba, Travel on December 31st, 2009 | No Comments »

I hope you are all having a wonderful Christmas Day!
Enjoy!

Filed under: Life News on December 25th, 2009 | No Comments »

No, not the U2 song, but Friday, I turned 40. It’s an eye-opening experience and I frequently wonder where the time has gone. I mean: I don’t FEEL 40… except after I work out too hard.
This year, after saving up lots of money by selling off old books, I was given a gift card to [...]

Filed under: Life News, Technology on November 2nd, 2009 | No Comments »

For the last 4 years or so, just after we moved to Virginia, we got Vonage as our home phone. We replaced the Verizon line once we got reliable high speed Internet at the house.
However, over the last month or so, we’ve been unable to see our caller ID due to the “check phone [...]

Filed under: Life News on September 20th, 2009 | No Comments »

Now that we’ve shredded most of the documents [after having to wait for the shredder to cool down between bouts] we’ve been working on streamlining our bookcases. I’ve been looking at the Kindle and will now likely buy one. That decision made, I’ve started to clean off my shelves of books that, if I read [...]

Filed under: House, Life News on September 13th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

We’ve decided to clean up our basement. Well, it’s not really a basement since it’s not really underground, but it’s the ground floor room. We’re getting this cleaned to accomplish several things. First, we have all this stuff that we’ve carried with us since before we were married and much of it, we haven’t used. [...]

Filed under: Life News on August 29th, 2009 | No Comments »

I have a spreadsheet I keep on my laptop with which I keep track of my billable hours for work. The company has a tool, but I like to keep an independent check on it with my own records. Just in case, right? I click on the desktop shortcut I have setup for it and [...]

Filed under: Life News, Technology on August 27th, 2009 | No Comments »

On Sunday morning, July 5th, Laura’s father Larry passed away at his cabin in the woods of East Texas. We knew it was coming, but not how soon. We had booked a trip to leave on 7/12, but on the advice of her brother we moved it to 7/4 for Laura, and I was to [...]

Filed under: Life News, Travel on July 16th, 2009 | No Comments »