Archive for January, 2006

Comments Are Fixed

Monday, January 30th, 2006

For all 2 of you who may have tried to comment in the past week or two since I updated this blog to the amazing WordPress 2.0, comments are now working. Oops. Thanks to Chap for letting me know.

How Not To Order Stamps

Monday, January 30th, 2006

Last week, at 7:45 Tuesday morning, I placed an order for two sheets of 39-cent stamps from USPS.com. $1.00 shipping and handling. I naively fantasized that they would be waiting for me when I got home that day. They were not. Nor were they in our mailbox the day after that. Not […]

Primitive Camping in Modern Times

Wednesday, January 18th, 2006

My friend Vince hiked two hours to a primitive campsite only to find that his neighbors were a bit more affluent than the usual hungry raccoons. Read all about it. Tragic and hilarious.

Budget Meeting

Tuesday, January 17th, 2006

Ah, the last lines of this SvN post hit close to home: …be sure to summarize the result of the meeting and inform the participants of the cost of reaching that result. Was it really worth [it] to spend 2 hours x $100/hour x 5 people = $1,000 whether or not to buy a […]

Adam & Jessica’s Flying Pig Elbows

Monday, January 16th, 2006

On Saturday night, after an exhausting day of cleaning up the house (still not done, but it’s looking much better), Jessica and I set about the task of making dinner only to find that the recipe we’d picked out would be far, far too much food, and so we decided to improvise with the ingredients […]