This weekend was Sun Valley’s official “Garage Sale Day” weekend. One weekend a year, everyone in my old neighborhood gets together and has garage sales. My family’s been doing it for so long we don’t even really need to coordinate. Susan, Mason and I along with my mom, sister, and her friend Doug all met over at my dad’s house. I brought doughnuts. From there, we made our way around the neighborhood once again, looking for deals and finding (for the most part) overpriced junk. Ah well. We gave up the hunt earlier than usual this year (around noon) and… (read more)
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When it comes to Christmas gifting, one of the people I have the hardest time shopping for each year is my Dad. Throughout the year he buys what he needs when he needs it, and doesn’t care much for shelf-filling knick-knacks unless there’s a personal story attached to them. Occasionally he’ll mention something off the cuff that he wants or needs but either hasn’t had the chance to pick up yet or hasn’t been able to find; that information is filed away and acted upon each Christmas (this year, he got a cheese grater). But I’m always on the hunt… (read more) Between my posts on The Retroist and Facebook some of you already know some of this story, but here’s the entire thing from beginning to end. A couple of weeks ago, I discovered Etsy.com. To clarify, I’ve known about Etsy for a year or two, I’ve just never really checked it out. Etsy is a place where normal people can set up their own virtual online shops and hawk their goods. Think of it like an eBay Store, but focused more more on homemade arts and crafts. Since I’ve been writing so much for the Retroist lately, I decided to… (read more) I don’t shop at garage sales and thrift stores nearly as much as I used to, but when I do, I’m always on the lookout for odd things — you know, those things you’ve never run across before, things you may never see again, and things that serve no purpose other than to show them to other people. Yesterday was the annual Sun Valley garage sale, and while digging through boxes of records, I found one of those things. This is a children’s collection of Bubble Gum music from Peter Pan Records titled “Indian Giver”. In case you’ve been living… (read more) One of the most interesting side effects of polyphasic sleep (not that I’m doing it — I’ve just read) is the alteration of the perception of time. In polyphasic sleep, people take short naps (usually six 30 minute naps each day) scattered throughout the day instead of sleeping 8 hours at one time. After doing it for two weeks, one guy reported thinking he had been doing it for over a month. Messing with your sleep schedule messes with your day. Or, in our case, the entire weekend. Saturday, Susan planned on heading up to work “late” to finish patching… (read more) 
In 2020 I wrote the fewest amount of blog posts I’ve ever written since I began blogging more than two decades ago. In 2021 I wrote even less than that. When you stop leaving the house and going to work, it’s hard to find things to write about on a regular basis. The COVID-19 pandemic began in March of 2020, and we spent the majority of that year hunkered down in place. In March/April of 2021, Susan and I were able to get vaccinated, and the kids got their shots a couple of months after that. Being vaccinated while wearing… (read more) 
My earliest memory of Pat Deckard involves eating French toast in her kitchen. I was seven, maybe eight years old at the time, and it must have been the morning after a sleepover. The Deckards had a back garage separate from their house where anywhere from three to eight boys from the neighborhood would have slumber parties. We slept on old mattresses with metal coils exposed, too dirty for dogs to lie on, and huddled around space heaters to keep us from freezing to death when the temperature dropped. The following morning, cold and hungry, we would go inside the… (read more) My sixth month run of no work-related travel ends this weekend as I hit the road and head to Las Vegas for a 2 1/2 week training course. It takes a lot of work to remove all the fun out of a trip to Las Vegas but we’ve managed to do it. My class starts on Monday, April 21, meaning I have to travel out there over the weekend, and it doesn’t end until Saturday, May 3rd, meaning I’ll be traveling back on the weekend as well. The class runs for two straight weeks including the weekend and we’re staying… (read more) Work has continued on the End User Provisioning Team here at work. You can tell the weeks we meet; I rarely update the blog those weeks, just because we’re so busy here at work and when I get home I don’t feel like getting on the computer. We had planning on meeting the week of April 25th as well, but moments ago I heard that week has been split into two week-long meetings, one the week of the 14th and another the week of the 28th. Crazy times around these here parts. Last week I released episode three of You… (read more) Here’s an obligatory “I haven’t updated in a few days” post. For the past week and a half I’ve been super sick. Yellow snot, green snot, the occasional bloody snot … I’ve pretty much got the market covered on snot colors. Lesser men would have gone to the doctor by now. Wimps. I spent the past couple of days writing a new program in Visual Basic. It’s a program that will randomly grab MP3’s from a directory and then write them to my USB memory stick in random order using random file names. I’m pretty sure it can be used… (read more) |
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