When we switched from Dish Network to AT&T U-Verse for our television needs, we had some pretty high hopes. I had expected the U-Verse to behave at least as well as the service we got from the Dish Network. Maybe possibly be better, since we never had on-demand shows before. Boy, was I disappointed. Within a week of...
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Chrissy and I both loved playing with Legos when we were little. Each of us had a sizable collection. Although I have no idea what happened to my Legos, Chrissy’s mom stored hers away. When Aiden was old enough to play with them, she brought them out of storage. Aiden enjoys building things with Legos, and...
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The annual family holiday letter was completed and packed into this year’s batch of Christmas cards, but I wanted to post it to the web site in case anyone who isn’t on our holiday mailing list would like to know what we were up to this year. If you’re not on our Christmas card list, but would like to be, please let...
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A couple of years ago, we sunk a lot of money into a new deck. I didn’t want to spend a lot of time on annual maintenance, so we went with a plastic decking called Azek. It looks like a wood plank, except that it will never rot, change color or stain. Also, it’s solid, unlike some of those other plastic decking...
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About seven years ago, a water main broke behind our garage. I remember that it was toward the end of December, and we thought that maybe the neighbor’s pool had sprung a leak. There was a lot of water. The town came and drove a bobcat through our backyard. It just made a big mess. Workers were digging in my...
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Chrissy has been a big fan of the Laura Numeroff books for a long time. When she was still in college to become a teacher, I gave her a copy of “If You Give A Mouse A Cookie” for Valentine’s Day. Since then, Numeroff has penned many similar books like “If You Give A Pig A Pancake” and “If You...
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For the last couple of years, several of my Twitter friends have participated in National Novel Writing Month, also known as NaNoWriMo. Basically, it makes a goal of writing a 55,000 word novel during the month of November. I almost signed up last year since I had a neat story idea. I decided to give it a try this year. I...
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I see the multi-generational appeal of the Shrek movies, but I especially like the Puss in Boots character. When I found out that Antonio Banderas would be lending his voice to the 3-D full length movie spin-off, I knew that we would be taking the boys to see it. I would look silly going by myself. Unlike the rest of the...
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The day after Chrissy got her iPhone, she went to the AT&T store and bought a new red iFrogz case for it. It has nice features, like a camera lens slider and a connector port cover, but it’s large and bulky. The silicone rubber covering makes it hard to pull in and out of your pocket and it attracts lint. I have no...
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Although I was not happy about Apple releasing the iPhone 4S instead of the iPhone 5 this year, Chrissy and I were in desperate need of new phones. Our old 3G iPhones were dog slow and would crash often. I found that a hard reboot would alleviate most of the problems, but this was not a long-term solution. Waiting another year...
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