Ever get that painful headache where you can feel the vein behind your eyeball? You know, the type of headache where you look left or right and it hurts to do that? I get those from time to time, maybe 4 times a year. Last night I got that around 3 AM so knowing what [...]
Family
How do I explain 9/11 to a 7 and 8 year old?
I’m no longer prone to blogging sentimentally anymore, but my mood demands it. Today is the 9th anniversary of that horrible day. I’m at a loss to explain to my children accurately what happened that morning and convey to them how the whole world changed due to a group of madmen. The closest I can [...]
Cue the vacation music
Lily and I started our vacation Friday night by eating at the Bhatti Indian Grill and enjoying really good spicy food. It was also our wedding anniversary and unlike last year neither of us forgot it. 16 years plus 5 years dating! She’s perfect. We have very different vacation styles. She likes to fill up [...]
And now an iMac
I have way too many PCs in my house, but a couple of them have been elevated to “must have”. The notebook in the kitchen had become indispensable, like coffee in the morning. My morning wake up routine became Drink coffee Check my e-mail Check out my social networks Do a little sysadmin on my [...]
Alice in Wonderland (not in 3D)
Last night I sat through Alice in Wonderland with my daughter and got to see Johnny Depp, Anne Hathaway, and company in a Tim Burton epic. We watched it on DVD. I had low expectations but was surprised when I really liked it. The story starts off in usual visual Tim Burton fashion and grows [...]
Pool algorithm?
Tomorrow we’re having some friends over, so today I’m doing pool duty. This involves me vacuuming the portions that the robot does a bad job on, and then tossing in said robot so it can do it’s thing. Around 7 AM I turned on the filter pump, went over the lines where the pool slopes [...]
Memorial Day 2010
We had friends and family over to celebrate Memorial Day and have a BBQ. We also used the new pool a lot. The pool has a slide. It was a great day and everyone had fun. You can see more photos on my Flickr set.
I am now the pool boy
What a fun couple of weeks this has been. We’ve opened up our pool and the whole family is enjoying it. It been a huge project to get to this point. Last November, my wife and I had an in ground pool installed and we’ve been scurrying to get it fully operational for the Memorial [...]
“I hope they don’t bring back segregation”
The things kids say. On the radio this morning me and the kids heard about that public announcement someone aired in a Walmart. Some jerk used the PA system to make a racist comment. WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, N.J. (AP/ 1010 WINS) — An announcement at a Walmart store in New Jersey ordering black people to leave [...]
Model train show
Today was a miserable day weather-wise but had one good thing going for it. The next town over had a model train show and the highlight was a N gauge train layout. It was a fun display and I took almost 300 photos. I shared 40 of them over here on Flickr. I also learned [...]
