I just got a forward from my mom and I’m not happy with whoever sent it to her as it’s a 5MB forward! First off that’s got to be horrible on her dial up. And secondly it’s eating up valuable server space. If you get a forward that’s over 1Mb, just trash it. All you […]

Well so far WordPress has been lots of fun. Everything seemed to make it over and there is so much to explore. I’m still working on the interface also. For some reason I can’t get it to be only 80% wide. There is some CSS code somewhere that I haven’t found yet. Once that’s done […]

I have decided to move this blog away from blogger and onto my own servers using WordPress as my blogging software. I still really like blogger but the downtimes are getting to me and the fact that any minor change to the template means I have to republish everything. There are some other minor reasons […]

Welcome to the brand new blog. You’ll have to make sure to update your bookmarks and RSS feeds. However, this blog is still under major development. All the posts are moved over from blogger and things seem to be working, however I’m still tweaking the interface and page names to suit my needs. It’s something […]

The 2004 Hay Bale Snowman is up! Christi and I, along with my parents, put it up Thanksgiving weekend. It was bitter cold but that didn’t kill our enthusiasm. Since this picture was taken the mouth has been updated and another string of lights may have been put on in his midsection. If you’d like […]

It’s that time of year when the Christmas lights go up and houses and trees in the neighborhood look festive! However, each year I hear the same question “how much does it cost to have Christmas lights plugged in?” Most people probably think back to Clark Griswold and his extremely lit up house in National […]

Well the Thanksgiving weekend is over and we had a great one. Friday we went shopping and boy did we do a lot. We were up at 5am, no thanks to the Target wake-up calls that didn’t work correctly, and we were at BestBuy by 6 or so. I have to say that that was […]

We are very excited that the first snowflakes of the season are falling on Thanksgiving! I hope they continue all night.

Happy Thanksgiving to everyone! I’m busy sitting in front of the TV watching the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day parade and reading the ads in the newspaper. I hope every eats and eats some more today and has a happy start to the holiday season. Oh and put up some Christmas lights already.