Thursday, December 8, 2011
I am a geek, and this extends to my home environment. By this I mean that the number of DHCP leases in our household exceeds the number of humans by a factor of 7. I spend a lot of money on things with blinking lights, and at least a few of these things have keyboards. [...]
I was at the grocery store Monday. I was by myself, which is unusual. I was by myself because Michael dropped a Commodore disk drive on his toe and smashed it. Walking was, understandably, hard for him. Also, he was pretty doped up on pain killers and too many episodes of Arrested Development. I was [...]
Tuesday, December 21, 2010
As I write this, Kara and I are winding across Northeastern Indiana on Amtrak’s Capitol Limited, the successor to the famous cross-country B&O route. We’re heading home from St. Louis to DC for the holidays, and we decided several months ago that we would make the trip by train. Taking the train is neither the [...]
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About a year ago, I bought a Flat Fold Colander, which you can see Cathy Mitchell pitching on TV here. It was a good purchase, because it was six bucks, it performs as advertised, and it hasn’t broken yet. But I am not here to extol the virtues of the Flat Fold Colander, diverse though [...]
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Michael and I have been talking a lot about how we probably come off as bitter old fogies on this blog – or worse, spastically angry people with completely irrational moods. Well, we’re all those things, but we still like some stuff. A lot of stuff. There wouldn’t be much point to living if you [...]
I’d just like to announce my new project at LieDuJour.com, in which I will tell you a new lie every day. That is all. EDIT: I should clarify that this post is not a lie. The site does exist.
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Well, I officially heart Zappos.com. Kara and I have raved about the comfort of the Earth shoes that we’ve now both bought. The negative heel construction is an amazing thing. Unfortunately, their quality of construction is poor, as I found out today. The right shoe of my four-month-old pair has developed a crack that goes [...]
Michael and I received our Wii Fit on Thursday, but didn’t get to do much other than register ourselves and do a few of the exercises. Wii Fit comes with a balance board you set on the floor. The board calibrates itself to your weight and based on the weight on the sensors, can tell [...]
While Michael and I are going into the locavore nonsense, I thought I’d bring up etsy.com as a great resource for supporting local artisans and for finding homemade, interesting gifts for loved ones. I have linked previously to an etsy store run by a young woman in Japan (From Japan With Love’s store), but I’d [...]
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Today, after I managed to convince myself it couldn’t be that cold outside of my down comforter (side note: it was colder than that), I weighed myself first thing and then went skipping into the kitchen where Michael was preparing our lunch and snacks for the work day. I have lost exactly 10 pounds from [...]