Monthly Archives: November 2006

A wide variety of miscellany

Everyone likes to talk about the weather, so I’ll just put this out here…it’s dang cold here! For those readers across the pond and throughout the land, it was 16 degrees at maison Tiar this morning (or -8 for you … Continue reading

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Cool search and more

More neato than really useful (I don’t see this replacing Google for my typical needs), check out this new search engine, Pagebull, that gives small screenshots of results. Other stuff to check out: A local blogger’s final visit and description … Continue reading

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Movies

I forgot!  As rare as outings to the movie theatre are, I feel I shouldn’t pass up an opportunity for a brief review of what we saw. As Morgan mentioned, Lola’s first movie theatre experience was “Flushed Away”.  Pretty good … Continue reading

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Old photos

Real quick…added some scanned photos of our house in the old days in their own album.

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Recent photos

Just added a bunch of photos… A new subalbum from our drive to the top of Peavine New photos from my turkey frying adventure, rubble of the Mizpah hotel, and a walk at Oxbow park, all in the newly added … Continue reading

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Family Holidays

We had a full house for Thanksgiving yesterday. My friend Maggie, Mom, Paige, Aunt Patty, her friend Tom, my cousin Alex from Omaha (currently at Travis AFB), Matt (works with mom and Paige), Marc, Lola and I. Marc fried a … Continue reading

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What’s new

Not a lot actually. Feels like it’s been ages since I posted, so I should put something up here I suppose. A grey-skied Sunday here, Lola napping and we’re between tasks. The house has been cleaned for company later this … Continue reading

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Link o’ the day and more

Probably mostly because I find some elements of spam so fascinating (where do they get the made-up names for the “From:” field? How about those subject headers???), I found spamusement.com pretty darn funny.  If you get much spam, you probably … Continue reading

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more news, mine and others

forgive the brevity, I’ve got a sleeping child on me… bought peanut oil and a turkey fryer today, so I think we’re going to go for this delicious yet potentially dangerous project for Thanksgiving RIP Jack Palance and Ed Bradley … Continue reading

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New album layout

I’ve been working to make the photo gallery feel less “segregated” from the rest of the site here.  Take a look, click on the photo gallery link over there to the right.  What do you think?  It’s more integrated certainly, … Continue reading

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