Category Archives: Reno

What’s up around here

Nothing too exciting, just a few tidbits to share…on a cold snowy (!) morning here at Maison Tiar. Had a grown-ups night out on Friday, dinner at Beaujolais Bistro followed by RENT at the Pioneer. Dinner was a bit disappointing: … Continue reading

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Weekend catchup

Here’s where we (well, I) stand on a sunny Saturday in February. So sunny, in fact, that it compares to what I usually hear from my parents where they live on the Mediterranean. And this is Reno, in February. Today’s … Continue reading

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News of the day

Just, as typical, an odd lot of stuff to bring to my blog-reading masses… Went with Paige and DayDay to see NOFX last night at the New Oasis. Wow. Sold out show (~1000 people), never seen that before. Taps ran … Continue reading

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Thoughts

So, time to write again.  Lots of junk rattling around my skull to share.  And I just added some new Lola photos, so be sure to peep those too. First, let’s talk computers.  Our laptop that we use most of … Continue reading

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New car and today’s walk

So, yes, I’ve got a new set of wheels. A 2006 Kia Spectra5. Black. As concisely as possible, here’s my saga: Sold the Mini Cooper in February, planned to drive the truck for a year or two to save some … Continue reading

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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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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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