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A few weeks ago, Keli and I watched “The Bucket List” and, while it was a pretty funny movie, it got me wondering, as I’m sure it did for everyone who watched it, what would I put on my own Bucket List. I mentioned this on Twitter, then @calandro5 and I started talking and decided [...]

Almost two years ago I wrote a post titled “The Shaving Conundrum,” which talked about my switch from regular Gillette Mach 3 razors to shaving with a double-edge safety razor. Recently, the Wall Street Journal wrote an article titled “Razor Burn: A Flood of Fancy Shavers Leaves Some Men Feeling Nicked” which also talks about [...]

YoungEntrepreneur.com has a great post today, on recent study findings relating to ways to keep employees motivated. The study results might surprise you! This video demonstrates something I learned years ago in school about motivation and the psychology of people in general. We’re not necessarily motivated just by money. Sure, money is important but once [...]

For some time now, Thing 2 has been wanting a mohawk. His hair is SUPER curly with very tight ringlets, as you can tell by the photo below, of him with Thing 3: We finally were convinced he wouldn’t let it go until he had it (we honestly thought he would be upset about getting [...]

On Friday, we received a new fridge/freezer which was supposed to be more energy efficient. It turns out, it really was more efficient, in that it stopped keeping frozen items frozen, and cold items cold. After Keli removed all of the ruined food items from the freezer, this is what was left, when the new freezer/fridge [...]

Over the past couple of weeks, I’ve been making a bunch of big changes to my web site. I think most of these have been transparent to site visitors, with the exception of the updated RSS feed. WordPress I’ve updated my installation of WordPress to 3.0. I was quite pleased to find that the upgrade [...]

It’s been a while since I wrote one of these posts, so I thought I’d do it again. Here’s some of the things I’ve been into lately. Books A friend of ours got me hooked on the Dresden Files books written by Jim Butcher. They’re about Harry Dresden, a wizard, who lives in Chicago and [...]

Keli and I saw the first “Paranormal Activity” flick and it freaked the bejeebus out of us. We ended up staying up later than we wanted, watching some Scrubs episodes, just to avoid going right to bed after watching it late at night. The teaser trailor for part two hit the web today: What do [...]

Recently, word has spread through Sonoma County that the City of Santa Rosa is proposing to charge people for parking at Howarth Park. On the surface, the proposed fees – $2 for two hours; $5 for the day – are not anything to get your feathers ruffled about. That is, until I began to really [...]

This is the latest song that has been stuck in my head for the past week.  The first video below is what I’m guessing is their “official” music video for “Animal,” that I watched on Fuse over the weekend. The second video is an accoustic version they did, which is also very good.