Last week, my wife said, “Stephen, I wish you cared as little about decorating as you do care about appliance purchasing.” This was to say, it would be nice if I didn’t have to check with you on the style and color of each room our new house. I had just spent 10 or more [...]
Rachel and I are both small bargain shoppers–no, not small-bargain, we are actually short and have small stomachs. Whenever we eat out, we spend less than $15. We often split an entree and both feel bad for our servers, because if we were bigger, hungrier, less frugal, we’d spend $30 to $40. Which leads me [...]
Rachel has had headaches and sinus congestion for over a week. On Friday, I started having cold symptoms. Saturday was full of sneezing, tissue, and that trickle down your nostril feeling that makes you shake like a wet dog–and oh was I a wet dog while doing errands. I took Mucinex and six or seven [...]
“The night sky is an infinite viola and the milky way is a bow and the universe is a carousel of flowing manes and fiery eyes”
The above is from this delightful and mentally delicious nugget commenting on this Christmas season from Over The Rhine. Over the Rhine is a wonderful wife and husband band that [...]
By now, you’ve heard of Mama Bell’s upgrade to DSL called U-Verse. I-verse must have been taken. I had originally called AT&T to downgrade from Comcast cable to Yahoo! DSL in order to save $350 a year, but the salesman said there was a $150 cash back rebate for new subscribers to U-verse–without a contract. [...]
I just cracked open my 4th generation iPod tonight. It took over a half hour, a screwdriver, a multi-tool, scissors, a hammer, a nail file and a lot of patience.
Yesterday, the hard drive refused to spin up. I actually hit it a few times with the palm of my hand, and it began working. [...]
I was using SeeqPod the other day to search for non-album songs sung by Over The Rhine. (By the way, Over The Rhine is coming to Indianapolis on December 12th at the Music Mill. I wonder if it will contain some Christmas music. I’ve never been to one of their Christmas concerts.)
Many of the mp3s [...]
Maybe it is time to move to somewhere else. Below is virtually verbatim of one side of a conversation heard outside my (closed) window not too long ago:
Hey kid! I want to tell you somethin’.
You won’t have to work for no one! You know what I’m sayin’. You know what I’m sayin’. You know man. [...]
Today, I received an envelope with the words “Check Enclosed” on the outside. I didn’t remember ordering a fifty dollar rewards check from my credit card company. I opened. It was only for $9.25 and required membership in something called Buyer’s Advantage. I was curious and called Trilegiant, the company responsible for most of my [...]
I’m editing HDV again. The company that had originally ordered the HD video back in January ordered an update to the DVD. I have yet to spend the night at the office, again, thankfully. So far the latest I have stayed is 10pm. Things are going more smoothly than the first time I edited high-definition.
I [...]