Outside the Rat Race

I have taken some of this wonderful free time I've had lately to do some crafting. I have been working on a t-shirt quilt (scheduled to...

It's been a while in the making, but I finally bought new shorts. As you can tell from the photo above, these pair had a good run, but ...

I know I have neglected our blog for quite some time...I was inspired however after a mega-baking session this afternoon (I know, I know it...

On Tuesday Jessi and I decided to clean out our garage. Mostly because we had a bunch of old stuff that had started to accumulate, but also...

The month of July was a crazy month for us. It was supposed to be relaxing, but after looking at this list, that clearly wasn't the cas...

Did you know that dogs lose all their baby teeth? Vinnie lost all his front ones, and has recently started losing the others as well. Here...

Well, it feels like only a month ago we bought our first Jeep . Wait. It was LESS than a month ago that we bought our first Jeep! So what h...

A little background on my browser choices: My personal computer is a Mac, and I use Safari. My work computer is Windows, and I use Chrom...

Here's a fun kid story. I was at a friend's house when one of his kids wanted to see pictures of our dog, Vinnie. He had met him b...

One of the things I like about Jessi is that she has really practical dreams. Some people, like myself, have crazy dreams like wanting to ...

I thought I would share my initial thoughts on Google+ along with the rest of the web. If you don't know what it is, here's a intro...

For the fun of it, I tried copy & pasting my iTunes library into Excel. In wonderful delight, I found that it sort of worked. Well, I co...

Email is the bane of many people's lives. Not because it's inherently bad, but because inboxes tend to get overwhelmingly filled in ...

Jessi and I have been working hard the last few weeks (OK, the last month) fixing up the other side of our duplex. Our previous tenants deci...

I started this blog in October of 2006 with 9 whole posts. 6 in November 0 in December (yikes!) and 2 in January Since then I became sl...

One of the joys of having a smart dog is that he's able to figure out how to do things pretty fast. Of course, it's also a bad thing...

Since I work for a technology company (read computers & printers), I get asked 2 questions all the time. 1) "My printer is broken...

Meet Vinnie, the newest member of our family. We picked him up on Friday so we got to kick things off with a long weekend. He's a short...

Jessi and I had new windows installed on the tenant's side of our duplex this week. Originally there were windows that looked to be at ...

I've been fascinated by Google's Chromebooks . They are essentially a computer with nothing but the browser. Since it's only a b...