Category: Blog

  • An ALLO Birthday!

    It is once again time to celebrate the day on which I first started A Life Less Ordinary! Back in 2001, I created a website that would be a photo-diary of my life. Obviously, the thrust of the site has changed somewhat, but ALLO lives on, now six years old! Sometime I’m going to have…

  • 2007 Mid-Year Resolution Update

    This post is a little later than I had hoped, but July has been a busy month for me. Yes, it’s time once again to review the resolutions I made at the beginning of the year and see how well I’ve kept them. Eat right – This one has been… Interesting. I would say that,…

  • Dear Abby…

    I have been invited to go to a birthday party this weekend in a couple of weeks by one of my adult friends (yes, I have friends who are twice my age. So?) The invitation says not to bring a gift, but on a recent episode of The Loop (which I think is an overall…

  • AEA Wrap Up (2007 Edition)

    An Event Apart was last week, and I meant to write this sooner, but I’ve been pretty busy lately. Last year, there was too much for me to describe, and the event was only one day long. This year it lasted for two days, so you can believe that there was even more which I…

  • RIP: Mr. Wizard

    As you probably know by now, Mr. Wizard died yesterday morning. He was almost 90 years old. This was on the MAKE Blog, and it brought back memories of watching Nickelodeon:

  • XBOX Sasquatch Screwup

    For the second year in a row, Morah and I went to the Sasquatch Music Festival. This year, a friend of Morah’s came along, as did both of their mothers. The day was nice and the music was great. At one point, the four girls wandered off. When they came back Morah told me that…

  • The IT Crowd Upskirt

    I was goofing around with the animated opening to kick-ass UK show The IT Crowd this morning, when all of a sudden I noticed this: For a single frame, you can see up cartoon Jen’s skirt. The question I’d like answered is: Are we looking at her underpants, or does the carpet match the drapes?…

  • The Compulsive Use of Lights

    I’ve noticed that people compulsively turn on lights, even when they don’t need to be on. I’m all about energy conservation (not only because it’s environmentally friendly, but also because it lowers the electric bill), so it irritates me when lights are on for no good reason. Morah and I have gotten pretty good at…

  • Trouble at Home

    You may have noticed over the past few weeks that the Home Webcam has been offline pretty much 24/7. This is because the webcam program, which usually the only thing running on the computer, keeps crashing. I’m not sure why it’s happening, but it started shortly after I was playing with the streaming option one…

  • Goodies from Uwajimaya

    I just wanted to say that I love nori maki arare.