So I’m finally getting this online after two weeks of being home. This is the (hopefully) short story of the ten days involved in a seven day cruise to three ports of call in Mexico (my first time there) with my wife-to-be Firefly and her two parents. Thursday night I got home from work and […]
Mexican Cruise Report Read Post »
I’m wondering if Darren’s hardware karma has somehow rubbed off a bit on me…. First of all, midway through the day yesterday my mouse scroll partially died. Having no scroll wheel sucks when you are used to it. “OK,” thinks I. “I was thinking about a new mouse anyway, and Firefly will be going by
Odd Hardware Karma (A Tale of Mice and KVMs) Read Post »
One of our cats, Patches, seems to be peeing in the house, not in the litter box. I say seems, though there really is little doubt of it. At christmas when we brought a couple of chairs in for Christmas dinner so family would have somewhere to sit the second we brought them in she
What To Do With a Cat That Pees in the House? Read Post »
Quick wrap up as I just got back from my seven day cruise in Mexico…. Had a great time for the most part, brought back booze (tequila of course) and lots of pictures (downloading from the iPod I borrowed to store them on as we speak). I did not: Get a tattoo Buy a timeshare
Heading out on vacation, so no updates here for a while. I’ll be basking in the sun till next Sunday. I’ll be turning comments off here until I’m back too, cause there’s just too much comment spam to leave it for a week without inadvertantly advertising whatever nastyness is the scam of the day. I
Leavin’ on a Jet Plane (and a Boat!) Read Post »
Wow, woke up this morning with the groggy feeling that I was late because it was lighter outside than normal, when I finally got near a window there was five friggin’ inches of snow! By the time I got to the car and realized it was pretty bad I was already committed. The snow was
Well, it’s all over except for the new years eve bash (read: sitting around watching a movie or something). Christmas was great, had the double action dinners, one here with everyone and one with my family, Boxing Day was good as well, hit up some good deals at the various boxing day sales. Other than
Weird, MT just ate my post about being sick 🙁 Anyway, yea, been sick since Monday night, I’ll leave the details light, as you really don’t want to know what was going on internally. Needless today I haven’t slept “normally” since then, though today I feel mostly human again, though the tummy is still rumbling
I did this a couple of years ago and got most of the stuff on the list…. well, mostly bought it myself years after the fact, but hey, here’s a snapshot of the materialistic side of me, Alan’s Christmas Wish List 2006! Second (or third) 20.1″ LG LCD monitor for the desk. I have one
Unattainable Christmas List 2006 Read Post »
So somehow last night we managed to get more than 50% of the 5 vehicles we had here stuck in the snow in one form or another. At one point we had a landrover at the top of the driveway pulling a red 4×4 stuck in the driveway while pulling a white truck that was
More Snow Adventures Read Post »