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Deal or No Deal or How Western Civilization Has Finally Once and for All Doomed Itself to Ruin
I was in northern California recently visiting my aunt. This bears mentioning because it meant that I stayed in a motel and didn’t have Tivo or a DVR to keep me from watching commercials and shows that I otherwise would never see because I have 50 hours of Law & Order, Law & Order SVU
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Another brick in the wall
We spent this past Sunday gardening. Even as I type this it feels weird. Gardening was, oh I don’t know, number five on the list of Ten Things I Never Thought I’d be Doing on a Sunday not so many years ago. Life always surprises you. Anyway, we spent the day planting rose bushes, spider
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Sweeney Todd ain’t got nothin’ on us!
Another day, another doctor’s appointment. Today it was Chuck’s turn. He had a date with the dermatologist: the removal of a basal cell on his neck – weirdly close to where mine was (yikes, it’s catching!). I went with him for moral support, and to drive him home if he didn’t feel up to it.
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Testing a new tool
I found a new way to publish to the blog called Performancing. It works in Firefox as an extension (and works on Macs AND PCs!). Pretty neat! I wrote this entry using it.
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Cruisin’ down the highway….
…in my spiffy convertible PT Cruiser. This was a total accident, one that I blame completely on Hertz and Sirius satellite radio. See, I flew up to San Jose to visit my aunt who lives in Watsonville (about an hour and a half south of San Jose). I had reserved a rental car from Hertz
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Once upon a time, there was this family and they had a backyard….
This week we had a new fence put in the backyard. We have been getting soooo close to finishing the gargantuan landscaping project; really all that was left was the sanding of the decks and the hooking up of the new pond…or so we thought. Our neighbors behind us are also landscaping, and their landscape
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