What I Listen to
Most of you know that I’m a big fan of podcasts. While listening, I often get questions about them. Why do you listen? What’s so great about them? And mostly, what are you listening to? Rather than explain it to everyone over and over again, I thought I could do a better job in a [...]
Fireworks photography
As usual, the family attended the fireworks in West Bend, WI last night, but for the first time I set up to take pictures. The threat of rain didn’t manifest itself, so I would get to snap some pics this evening. After setting up, I confirmed some notes I read earlier in the week from [...]
Lightning photography
Of the many podcasts to which I subscribe a few are photography-related. They cover all sorts of random topics, and once in a while one catches my ear. One specific episode dealt with trying to capture lightning bolts. How can this be done? In the words of Doc Brown, you never know when or where [...]
Tornado sighting
Even though the picture didn’t quite turn out the way I would have hoped, I saw my first tornado yesterday. I went to Mendard’s and was walking from my car to the front door. As I approached the door, I see at least a dozen people standing and looking out toward the parking lot. Odd, [...]
NYC 2010
In celebration of our 20th wedding anniversary, Monica and I decided to head to New York City for Memorial Day weekend. Let’s do some sight-seeing! Let’s see a show! OK, let’s go. We stayed at the Hampton on 8th Ave. between 51st and 52nd streets and hopped a sight-seeing bus a few blocks away. Yes, [...]
goodasnew
After cracking the screen on my iPod Touch a while back, I underwent the task of replacing it myself. Fix in progress: Now that I’ve taken it apart and had a chance to look at it under the covers, I’m much more knowledgeable about how it fits together. The glass LCD touch screen is held [...]
One of those rare days
I use iGoogle as my home page in my browser. Love it. One of the features of this arrangement is the ability to add widgets to the page and plug in RSS feeds from blogs (like this one ). As you might imagine, one of the built-in widgets shows the weather. This one allows you [...]
Oh, the humanity!
If you’ve seen me lately, no doubt you’ve seen the headphones or ear buds in my ears. I’m a huge fan of podcasts and always (yes, always) listen to something when I’m not doing anything else. Heck, I’ll listen even when I’m doing something else. It’s just audio, right? Very easy to multitask. In fact, [...]
Savings
It’s amazing what you can get just for asking. Somehow, some way, I wanted to lower our overall bill for TV/Phone/Internet. Everybody has a deal, and everyone touts their lowest possible price for what you think you want. “Less than $100 for all 3!” or some such thing. Until you tell them you want a [...]
Summer continues
We’re sort of in a lull (just for today), so I thought I’d give a quick summertime update. Chronologically speaking… Hannah had a great time at volleyball camp at UW-Whitewater two weeks ago. Even though she was a little under the weather on the final day, she got much needed work as a setter. A [...]
