Monthly Archives: December 2008

eeePC: Uploading to Vimeo

December 23, 2008 – 1:07 pm

I’ve come to grips that the eeePC is not my primary computer and really wasn’t designed to be. So, after the 3rd time restoring the machine to factory settings using the Recover CD, I’ve vowed not to keep loading on a bunch of apps that I really didn’t need. (You know, that urge to load [...]

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Forget Fun (and other ‘f’ words)

December 16, 2008 – 11:09 pm

The boys find talking about farting as being pretty funny. And they’ve just spent the trip from South Third Street to piano lessons in the 1993 Ford Escort Wagon while it was snowing trying to come up the substitute words for fart. Lori laid down the law in her frustration with the boys starting the [...]

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Coffee Stains: O Brother, Where Art Thou?

December 10, 2008 – 7:40 am

My mom missed my birthday this year and she didn’t call until Friday. My birthday was Tuesday and so she missed my birthday by three days. Don’t worry, I’m not crying about it, I’m just making note of it.
Good thing she doesn’t make note of the many times I called the next day after [...]

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Two for the crockpot

December 7, 2008 – 7:21 pm

For wintertime it’s all about comfort food and something warm and hearty. Here’s two recipes that are fast and easy to throw in the crockpot and yield some good main courses:
Harvest Ham

3 sweet potatoes (sliced in half lengthwise)
1.5 pounds of boneless ham
1 cup of maple syrup

Place potatoes in bottom of slow cooker to form a [...]

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Coffee Stains: The Answer

December 2, 2008 – 10:11 pm

We had this plan to invite our friends over for a joint-birthday party. We were going to send out “Save the Date” postcards or e-cards with something like “The Answer to Life, the Universe and Everything.” But as we got out of September and then on to the week of Thanksgiving, Lori asked me “So, [...]

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