Chrissy and I finally got around to painting the kitchen and dining room. We had already decided on a “less bright” shade of yellow for the dining room, so Chrissy bought two gallons of wall paint, two gallons of primer, and a gallon of ceiling paint. We were up and ready for the day at 8 AM on Saturday morning. Our prep...
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Swavek and I went to see Frank Miller’s 300 today. We saw it at the IMAX in Portage, and I was blown away by the sound system. We got there early, so the previews and commercials were cycling through on the upper half of the screen with the audio on a regular sound system. We saw the Spiderman 3 trailer and the Harry Porter...
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Chrissy and I don’t normally celebrate St. Patrick’s Day. We don’t drink much, and we don’t own much green. However, this year we have a boy. It was tempting to take him to the parade in Chicago, but he’s too young right now for that. Maybe in a few years. For now, we settled on extensive...
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The kitchen remodeling project is coming along. Uncle Marve moved the conduit that was behind the soffit and added some new outlets. Then, Glenn put up new drywall and started on the taping and mudding. We also installed a new back door, although we still might salvage the storm door. We might be able to start painting next...
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I’ve got my own little sandbox now over at E-Trade with a dozen Uranium stocks in it. Last week’s stock market dive bottomed out on Monday, when I backed up the truck to load up on my favorite Uranium picks. That turned out to be good timing, since the international markets began to correct themselves the next day. The...
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Chrissy is always taking pictures of Aiden, and sometimes she will switch the camera over to video mode to record some live action. Up until now, those movies just sat on our hard drive. With a little editing in Adobe Premiere, I was able to stitch some of the footage together and post the results on YouTube. I think that it turned...
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The new Transformers movie is going to cause a marketing blitz the likes of which we have not seen since Star Wars Episode 1. I’ve already heard of Transformers pillow cases, Transformers pez dispensers, Transformers backpacks, and now Transformers shoes. These are actual Nikes with Autobot logos that are decorated like...
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