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I got nuffin’

September 20th, 2009 | No Comments

There hasn’t been much going on here lately. We’re gearing up for our upcoming vacation, but other than that, we’ve just been trying to relax a bit. Dave put some fog lights on my Jeep yesterday, partly in preparation for our trip. They look great, and while they don’t add a whole lot of light [...]

Review: Pilot Hi-Tec-C Hello Kitty pen

February 16th, 2009 | 4 Comments

As I’m sure you know by now, I love pens, and one of my favorite sites for pen shopping is JetPens. They recently put out a call for bloggers who wanted to review a special edition pen, and I jumped on board. The pen itself is one of Pilot’s popular Hi-Tec-C line of gel ink [...]

Pen addicts have the write stuff

January 15th, 2009 | 5 Comments

In my entry about the seven weird/random things meme, I mentioned that I love writing instruments, particularly pens. Dave can attest to this fact, as I always have to drag him through the pen section at Staples. I can spend hours browsing at JetPens; I have it open in another browser tab as I type [...]

Four birds and a drum

December 17th, 2008 | 4 Comments

I didn’t post a whole entry about our visit to the homestead this past weekend because there wasn’t much to it. I took pictures and Dave burned the old lath strips he tore out of the house. I did get to take a series of pictures of some young cedar waxwings sitting in a tree [...]

Ernie’s fountain of youth

August 15th, 2008 | No Comments

I never thought I’d be posting a video from Faux News on my blog, but seriously…I think this says it all, my friends! Here’s 91-year-old Ernest Borgnine’s secret to aging gracefully. (I was going to link to his IMDb profile, but I’m pretty sure my few readers know the man’s work!) Bonus points to Doocy [...]

Even deer have an emergency alert system

July 24th, 2008 | No Comments

Yes, it’s true, as Dave and a co-worker found out on Monday. They were on break, watching other deer with binoculars, when this one appeared and decided to stare them down. Dave got out the camera and recorded what ended up being a broadcast of the deer emergency alert system. Turns out that when a [...]