A Life Less Ordinary

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Morah and I finally received our HDTV converter box rebate coupons on the mail, so today we bought a couple. Being a video guy, hooking them up was a no-brainer, and the setup process was equally easy. The real surprise came when I saw the image quality. Even on my lousy old CRT television, the…

Every so often I get the desire to create something. Unfortunately, this desire doesn’t usually include websites. I want to paint a picture, build furniture, draw a web comic, shoot a video, and so on. The problem (besides not having enough time) is that I often lack the muse, the tools, or the technical skills…

How many of you have weird habits? For example, when I walk past things, I tend to touch them. For example, when I walk down the stairs at work, there is a soffit overhead that I usually reach up and touch. Often when I walk through doorways, I touch the doorknob or doorjamb. When we…

Seriously, can’t we all just adjust however we feel appropriate? If you really need that extra sunlight, buy a sunlamp, get a job that allows you keep your own hours, or move toward the equator. Just don’t make me change my clock for your own arbitrary benefit. Not only is the clock changing annoying (especially…

I came home a couple of days ago to find this: The entire yard and driveway are covered in these seed pods. They really suck. They’re nearly impossible to rake up, because they slip through the tines of the rake. They can be moved off of the concrete fairly easily with the blower or a…

Alright, the title of this post is bit of a lie. Obviously, I can blog, the trouble is that I never do. This whole, “every day in November” thing is seriously pushing me to the limits. The first problem is that I don’t have anything to say. I often think, “gee, I haven’t written a…

Morah and I went to a wine tasting tonight that the wine steward at our grocery store told us about (is that the kind of thing that only happens in Spokane?). I tried a little over a dozen wines, and best of all, I won a bottle of wine! Both Graham (the wine steward) and…