Archive for the 'Life' Category

The Accidental Composter

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

As Gina said yesterday, I have been studying compost. Quite in depth, I may add. I won’t tell you the results of my findings yet, I will say that what I have found has been both confusing and enlightening.I get confused because people say different things about it — “don’t make your pile [...]

Update

Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008

It’s been almost two weeks since I have posted anything. Must be a new record. But it’s not like I haven’t been doing anything. Here is an update:

Leah started soccer three weeks ago. It’s about time I posted something — the season is half done!  Leah loves it [...]

A Reformed Mix-Tape

Friday, February 22nd, 2008

I participated in theCDP’s mix-tape trade (okay, they were all CD’s — mine was cut from iTunes, probably like many others).  The mix was supposed to be in by Feb 14 and theCDP said that the theme was supposed to about love — you know, let’s-get-in-the-mood stuff. I decided to refrain from that and do [...]

Introducing Heartland Stores

Friday, February 15th, 2008

I’ve talked a little about the secret project a few times but now, finally, the secret is out. It’s called Heartland Stores.

Heartland Stores is not your typical yadda-yadda web store front. Actually, it’s not like that at all.  Heartland Stores wants to help non-profit organizations with doing product fundraisers.  It’s really very simple — instead [...]

Some Quick Things

Tuesday, February 5th, 2008

Yep, it’s that time I put a bunch of random stuff together in one post. Deal with it.

Anyone else in Omaha sick of the snow besides Gina and I?  I can’t believe my backyard has been covered since December.
Leah had a severe cough all last week.  On [...]

Self-Disclosure Tag

Monday, January 28th, 2008

David, aka Nubi tagged me and I guess I’m it. I’m supposed to:

Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
Share 7 facts about yourself.
Tag 7 random people at the end of your post, and [...]

Getting your focus with OmniFocus

Friday, January 4th, 2008

One of my goals for 2008 is to get more organized — to accomplish the thing that I want to instead of forgetting about them when I can do them and then remembering them later when can’t do them.

I’ve flirted with GTD before and I really like it.   The problem I had was that I [...]

Windows does indeed look bad

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

Tim Bray is saying what I have been saying for years.  And he notices that people are happier to move away from Windows, which I, too, haven noticed.Gina has a friend that is really into photography and has taken note on how much Gina loves our Mac.  So she’s sold — but her husband wasn’t.  [...]

Another Kenmore Elite Dishwasher Follow-Up

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

This is really the a follow-up to my initial review and my first follow-up on our wonderful Kenmore Elite Dishwasher. Why am I doing this? Not just because those are the two most hit entries on this blog (who would have guessed that??) but we also had our first problem with our dishwasher.

A week [...]

True Grit

Thursday, December 27th, 2007

My brother-in-law Rick was lamenting the state of holiday church services. While there is nothing wrong with Christmas Eve or Easter Services in general, he said that they lacked what he called “grit” — realness, authenticity, and transparency. To give an example, Rick was asked to pick a version of the Christmas story [...]