Category: Life

Happy Independence Day 4

Happy Independence Day

In the same vein of Thanksgiving, here's a famous speech to help put things into perspective between that 4th hamburger and 6th box of sparklers. Let us never forget that 57 brave men pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor...

The peeping was a gateway drug (Or: Annabelle, the Bumlicker) 6

The peeping was a gateway drug (Or: Annabelle, the Bumlicker)

Annabelle has this incredibly adorable and funny habit of peeping on Jesse when he's in the shower.  A couple days ago, she even got so curious what was going on in there that she JUMPED in the shower with him....

More on budgeting (or: Moron Budgeting) 8

More on budgeting (or: Moron Budgeting)

Well, since we discovered the wholly obscene amounts of money that we were spending on food, I've become a crazy person. Crazy in the sense that I am now obsessed with creating and maintaining a budget. The kind of crazy...

Budgeting for the completely financially illiterate 11

Budgeting for the completely financially illiterate

Taking an honest look at your finances and spending habits is a tricky business. But we realized it must be done. You see, it’s completely incomprehensible to me how the two of us, who earn decent livings, live in a...

Verizon to Vonage: All You Phone Calls Are Belong To Us 10

Verizon to Vonage: All You Phone Calls Are Belong To Us

In a move designed to infuriate the technical community (yours truly included), the judge in the patent case between Verizon and Vonage has issued an order that Vonage is prohibited from completing calls from its service to a regular phone...

It's a lot like Sanford and Son 7

It's a lot like Sanford and Son

What, you might ask, has this to do with anything? Take a look at this picture from our living room: Yes, that's 16 computers and a 17" monitor. There's three more monitors downstairs and 12 more waiting for pickup. The...

Happy *cough* Christmas. 1

Happy *cough* Christmas.

Shauna was too excited to keep on sleeping after we woke up around 2:30AM this morning, so I suggested we go downstairs, get a fire started in the fireplace, and kick back on the Lovesac. Part of getting a fire...

Christmas: It brings out the Tourette’s in everyone, I suppose. 4

Christmas: It brings out the Tourette’s in everyone, I suppose.

Yesterday Jesse and I decided to brave the stores to get gifts for those last few people on our list. We were out and about for 3½ long and terrible hours, getting almost nothing accomplished, before our day of fun...

On being strong 10

On being strong

I'm really going to have to work on appearing more sensitive to the people around me. I used to think it was a compliment when people told me how strong they thought I was, but I'm beginning to realize that...