Archive for October, 2007

Another Annoying Typing Problem

Wednesday, October 31st, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I've developed another annoying typing problem.  I'm not sure if it's that my hands can't keep up with my thoughts or what, but I've started not finishing words and started skipping forward a couple words and just restarting there.  It's ...

Bandito Barney’s

Tuesday, October 30th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 2 Comments »

Saturday night, my friend and I went out for a bite to eat and to hang out for the night.  We went to a new brew pub near his place.  The area is also not too far from where I grew up, and ...

More on George Ryan

Friday, October 26th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | No Comments »

I've written a couple times about how I don't think George Ryan will spend a second in jail (unless it benefits him somehow) even though he was convicted of some pretty heavy stuff and his sentence will likely be for the ...

Incentivizing Reading

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 Posted in kids | No Comments »

My son is a fairly new reader, but he's doing pretty well so far.  He just doesn't have much interest in reading to us.  My wife recently initiated a scheme of giving my son rewards for reading books.  She created a ...

Spaceships & full moons

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

Ganked from OakParkGirl -  BIG FULL MOON:  This week's full Moon (Oct. 25-26) is the biggest full Moon of 2007. It's no illusion. Some full Moons are genuinely larger than others and Thursday night's will be as much as 14% ...

Reaper

Thursday, October 4th, 2007 Posted in Uncategorized | 1 Comment »

There's a new show on TV called Reaper.  The basis of the show is that some dude's parents sold his soul to the devil before he was born and now he has to work for the devil as a bounty hunter to ...