Outside the Rat Race

Be prepared to feast your eyes on a bunch of data! The idea of this project came from two events. First, my Mom and sister recently joined...

From  Flowing Data , one of my favorite blogs Jessi and I have started talking a real estate management class and it's been a ton of ...

I feel like I've mentioned this before, but I can't find it anywhere, so I must not have... For the last 6 months I've been li...

I do not have cable. I don't even own a television. The only way Jessi and I watch something is on our computers. The only two services...

For the last few months I've talked about how crazy our lives have been. This month however, was a nice break from the constant rush. Do...

Watching a musician play on the wharf On October 6th I had the opportunity to head down to San Francisco with some high school students f...

Back in March I talked about entering the computer market . Jessi's computer had just crashed and she didn't want to replace the har...

I thought September was supposed to be a down month, but as it progressed it quickly become clear that the busy-ness would continue. Rumor h...

Sunriver Cabin Earlier this year Jessi and I attended an event put on by Friends of the Family Ministries . Friends of the Family Ministr...

I got to experience a man moment last week. Jessi's car wouldn't start Monday morning and I was able to fix it by Thursday night. ...

A little while back I blogged about starting our re-grading project . I am happy to report after many, many!, hours of work it's complet...

I'd like to share one of my new favorite extensions for Chrome: Chrome Nanny. I'm always on the lookout for programs that will help ...

And August happened. The beginning of the month Jessi spent a week in Colorado hanging out with her family. It was a time to simply relax ...

For the second time in recorded history the Parry and Furlo clans headed over to the Oregon coast for a good ol' fashion camp out ( here...

Jessi and I kicked off our next big project last week. We are going to complete re-grade both our front and back yards. We talked about it b...

One of my favorite iPhone apps is simply named Bible and is created by YouVersion.com . It is exactly what you would imagine - a Bible. I r...

I've written before our finances and how to manage it . This talks more about the spending side. Jessi and I recently celebrated our se...

July was crazy! I don't know what happened. Starting the summer it didn't seem like we would be that busy, but somehow we kept addin...