"Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop drinking."

At times like this, I can’t help but quote the air traffic controllerfrom Airplane. I never intended this blog to be kind of a “tales from an IT person”theme. But, since it is a blog about whatever is on my mind at thetime, you get more tales from IT. Our business system is down. It…

Friday Field Trip and Weather Update

The Arctic Blast Part 3 starts tonight and/or tomorrow.  Last night, the rain that fell all day froze.  You can see where this is going, right?  Yep – the roads were fun this morning.  After watching a couple semi trucks jack knife near my work, I decided to just work from home.  Why join the…

Lola

I spent two week last summer teaching both of my girls how to ride their bikes.  Last winter, our oldest daughter’s bike was stolen off of our front porch – so we went to the Recyclery  to pick out a new-to-us bike. She got a great dirt bike with a frame that one of the…

Middle Earth Love

Lately, I have been on a Lord of the Rings movie kick.  I can’t quite explain why I am drawn to them.  Maybe it is the epic nature of the story, maybe it is the triumph of good over evil, maybe it is this:  Or this… For whatever reason, I have watched all three of…

Friday Field Trip

I read that the definition of a cynic is a broken hearted idealist (in a book by Michael J. Gelb, but I believe others have said it too).  I am a cynic.  I openly admit that I am cynical as a coping method. I know how things should go or should be done, but am amazed…

Friday Field Trip

This Friday Field Trip is kind of a two in one.  I was originally going to send you to this cool site I found (which I still am going to do), but I want to highlight a few things that I found on it. The first is this: photo source It is from the post…

Friday Field Trip

I must first admit that I stole this idea from another blogger.  Thanks Katie MacAlister for the idea.  If you don’t know Katie, she is a writer who seems to have a knack for paranormal romance novels (vampires, ghosts, dragons, etc).  I believe romance novels are really TV in a book.  They don’t require too…