Category: Life

Back on March 2, I posted pictures of the snow and ice. Now, two weeks later, the tree in our back yard is in full bloom. Paige took some great pictures of it over the weekend.

 

We think this is a Bradford Pear tree, maybe some tree expert could set us straight. I’m using this last picture as wallpaper on my computer. I love the sharp white flowers against the blurry background.

Paige has taken so many pictures of the flowers around our house that I have enough to fill a gallery. I’ll try to get that added soon, along with a gallery of some of our cloud and sunset pictures.

Geoff and Tony stopped by for a visit during spring break. I somehow managed to take pictures of both of them without goofy looks on their face.

I’m getting much better at surprise photography.

Paige and I have the worst luck with restaurants. It seems like no matter where we go to eat, something always goes wrong. We haven’t been back to the “big cow” in years – not since Paige found a worm in her salad. Technically it was a caterpillar, but I won’t bring that up here…

Anyway, last night we thought we’d try the new place down the road from us called Wing-N-It. It’s a cute little burger and wings place that looks like a hanger. There’s even a dirty old airplane inside, raised on a platform that almost touches the ceiling.

We ordered two burgers without onions, two drinks, an order of fries, and an order of wings. Surely they could whip that up in five minutes. It took about 30 minutes to get our meal, and four different people came to the table to ask what we ordered and tell us that they messed up. It seems they gave our order to someone in the drive through – twice.

We did get some work done around the house yesterday. We finally dug up all of our rose bushes. They were mangled beyond repair. Here I am burning them –

That’s one of the great benefits of living outside of town. You can set things on fire pretty much any time you want.

I’ve been going through and cleaning up the galleries this evening. Making sure all the links work and all the pictures are in the right place is pretty time consuming.

As I was checking things, I found two pictures of Sam and Max that never made it to the front page. So, here they are –

 

I just love the one of Sam hiding out under the comforter on our bed. And seeing a dog and cat sleeping together on the same chair is always cute.

Anyway, I’m off to sleep now…

We just got through learning everything there is to know about making pizza on Food Network. Now we’re just sitting around listening to some Primus, so I thought I’d post a few pictures of last weeks ice before Geoff has a fit…

 

One more week until spring break from work. I am so ready.

There’s only one thing better than a day off from work because of snow… TWO days off because of snow. We got another little ice storm around here so I won’t be going back to work until at least Thursday.

I spent a while thawing out my car earlier today and even took some pictures. Once I get them uploaded, I’ll post them here.

We’ve added a Petfinder.com search bar to the bottom of the page. They have all kinds of animals up for adoption, everything from dogs and cats to horses, pigs, and reptiles. Paige even picked out some baby turtles for us earlier today. Just select what kind of pet you’re looking for from the drop down list, type in your zip code, and click Go.

As of yesterday, everybody in Paris has to dial the full 10 digits to make a call. There’s a new area code coming to town, so we all have to change our ways.

I woke up yesterday morning and tried to check my e-mail, but my dial-up connection wouldn’t work. The error message said the line was busy. I didn’t think much of it at the time since my ISP is a little flakey.

Later, I came back and tried again. I still couldn’t connect. Then it hit me, I have to tell Dial-Up Networking to dial the area code. Once I did that it connected right away, and I swear my connection seemed about twice as fast. I guess that means a lot of people haven’t figured it out yet.

All I can say is I would hate to work for an Internet Service Provider in the morning. I’ll bet they get swamped with calls from people who haven’t been able to connect all weekend.

After reading the article about me in the paper a few weeks ago, some people told me that they were surprised that I thought of myself as a geek. I guess some folks just don’t know me very well. Luckily, Paige knows I’m a geek and she loves me for it –

I’ve always been a geek, and I’m sure I always will be.

There was a story a few months back about a Microsoft employee who stole software from the company and sold it himself. The guy managed to make a few million dollars before Microsoft caught him.

According to Yahoo News, the man has died before he even got a chance to stand trial.

Now that seems like an odd coincidence…