Tonight’s Blue Moon
Thursday, May 31st, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »There is a blue moon tonight. It's fairly rare and it's not because the moon turns blue. The current common definition is the 'second full moon in a calendar month'. It happens about once ever 2.5-3 years. I love the ...
My son loves poker
Thursday, May 31st, 2007 Posted in kids | 3 Comments »Over Memorial Day weekend we went to a bbq at one of my friends houses. Towards the end, my friend brought out the poker chips an wanted to "just throw some cards around".  Nowadays when we play poker, it's all Texas ...
Thanks TMNT
Tuesday, May 29th, 2007 Posted in kids | 2 Comments »My son has been a low key kid most of his life (all 5 of his years). His cousin has Xbox and they've been playing Superman/Batman and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (TMNT). Since he liked TMNT, I recorded the cartoon ...
I need my headphones!
Tuesday, May 22nd, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »This is one of those things you don't know you'll miss until it's gone. My headphones FINALLY broke early last week. By FINALLY, I mean that I've taped them together for quite some time. They played music just fine, so ...
Recycling & Basement Garbage
Monday, May 21st, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »I'm in the closing stages of finishing my basement. All I have left is trim, carpet and a couple miscellaneous things. I realized yesterday as I took out the trash that through the whole project I've had almost equal numbers ...
Fox Valley Nissan
Friday, May 18th, 2007 Posted in Memories | 1 Comment »The place I work now is run by a bunch of guys that used to be in the car dealership business. Actually, the BIG GUY used to own a dealership I worked at as a porter when I was 16-20. ...
The Brown’s Chicken Killers
Friday, May 18th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »A while ago, the "Brown's Chicken Killers" were arrested. One of them was on trial over the past few weeks, and was convicted. The other one will go on trial soon enough. The basic evidence the prosecution had was that ...
Non-Clarity in Communication
Wednesday, May 9th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »So far this week, I've had 5 instances where written communications (via email or IM) have more or less failed the clarity test. It got to such a point that I wondered if it was me that was being too ...
Garage Sale
Monday, May 7th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 4 Comments »This weekend we had a garage sale. To be honest, it was mostly my wife, but I help with the manual labor. It was organized as a neighborhood garage sale, so there were tons of people selling tons of stuff. We ...
Stress Face
Friday, May 4th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »Generally, I don't get stressed. When most people get really stressed, you can tell by their demeanor that they're stressed. No one can tell from mine. It's the same cool, calm collected me that's usually there. There have been precious ...