Archive for 'Off Topic' Category
Iphone Update
Well, now that it’s been a couple days, I’m happy to report that the Iphone has magically turned on!!! I’m still going to give it a couple more days to dry out but it seems to mostly work. (It seems to have a delay when placing calls). Just in case it doesn’t come back to [...]
Back on the Diet Kick
Well, after a couple month hiatus, I’m dieting to shrink my waist line a bit. I’m not really subscribing to a strict diet but I have drastically reduced my food intake and am counting calories through the Weight Watcher’s method. To keep me honest I’m meeting my brother in law at his house to weigh [...]
Mortgage Rates Seem to Have Gone Up
Wow. It’s amazing what a difference a week makes. It was only a little over a week ago that I was feeling bummed that rates had gone down since I locked in at 4.875% for a 30 year fixed. Fast forward to today and my credit union’s rate has increased to 5.45% for a 30 [...]
Happy Thanksgiving!!
This post probably falls under the TMI category (Too Much Information) I’ll confess that Thanksgiving isn’t my favorite holiday. I love the idea of Thanksgiving and have many, many things to be thankful for each Thanksgiving so that part of the day is great. Where it all goes south for me is the food. Since [...]
Microsoft Virtual PC 2007 – Free and Very NICE
Last night I found myself wanting to test out some software. I’ve been playing around with various DJ software. Most of the versions that I’ve downloaded are demos and I really didn’t want to fill up my Vista machine with a bunch of junky software. The solution for this was to download Microsoft Virtual PC [...]
Update on the Weight Loss Challenge
It’s week four of the weight loss contest. If you recall, I’m having somewhat of a contest with my brother in law where we set a target to lose 17 pounds each at the rate of a pound a week. If either of us weighs more than we did the previous week, we have to [...]
Weight Loss Motivated By Money
I have been having a terrible time knocking off the 20 pounds I really need to shed. For the last year or so I’ve been creeping up on the scale and all my clothes are getting rather uncomfortable. Every time I drop a few pounds, the clothes start fitting better and I give up, only [...]
Got Rear Ended Yesterday
There I was. Patiently waiting in the turn lane at an intersection. I was about 4 cars back at the light. Traffic had built up behind me and there was a brand new green Toyota Camry right behind me. All was well. As the light turned green I started to anticipate being able to go [...]
Born Again Blogger
Wow. It’s amazing how much nicer blogging is now that I’ve gotten the long term bugs worked out of my site. I have been suffering with some database issues for over 9 months. It killed my blogroll when it all happened so I’ve been running without a blogroll for that long. I also wasn’t able [...]
Vote For Our Friends!!!
Our friends entered a contest for an American Standard new heating and cooling system and have been chosen as one of the 7 finalists. Their 10 year old daughter drew a picture of their house and their dad, Jeff, wrote a short essay about why they needed a new home cooling/heating and filtration system. If they [...]