food, friends, life, stores, kind-environment food … Cake Decorating Class Last week Carla, Meghan, and I went to our first class of The Wilton Method of Cake Decorating: Course 1 at Michael’s Craft Store. I was hesitant at first, not knowing how much I would have to spend and how much I would…
gaming, geekdom, kind-tech gaming … A Time When Microsoft Sucks So, after waiting and waiting for the new update of Davis (Bikes) for Burnout Paradise, it was released today. We tried and tried to download it, restarting the Xbox360 I don’t know how many times.. and nothing! We figured the download just wasn’…
kind-environment Long Time, No Blog It has been almost a month since I wrote my last blog post. I knew I was busy this past month or two but I didn’t realize I was that busy – too busy to blog, that is just unthinkable. Well, I hope that…
.NET, ASP, data, development, webDevelopment, kind-tech .NET … Simpler Robust ASP.NET Providers I don’t like writing about something that I’m “currently working on” too often. The problem with that is sometimes other things (e.g. life) get in the way of my proposed timelines. All that aside, there are times when the standard SQL…
life, kind-environment life … Where Did I Go Wrong? Or Did I? In high school, I focused on science and art and was heavily involved in a group called Students Against Violating the Environment (SAVE). We collected cardboard boxes, painted them to stand out, and put one in every room for students to recycle their paper.…
exercise, P90X, withGear, kind-fitness exercise … P90X: Changing Your Life P90X has taken some fitness communities by storm! Getting in shape and staying in shape seem to be very difficult for most of us. We have busy schedules and fitness does not seem to get its own place on our calendars. It’s an…
exercise, P90X, withGear, kind-fitness exercise … P90X: Getting Started So, you’ve decided that P90X is the workout and diet plan for you to achieve lasting fitness and health for the rest of your life. Excellent! You won’t regret making the commitment. Now that you’ve ordered the DVDs, you need to…
fitness, P90X, kind-environment fitness … P90X: Week 4 We are finally moving forward again in our P90X adventure. We didn’t take our stats like I thought we would at the end of our undecided Week 2 or 3. It was decided though that we just wanted to move along in the…
tech, kind-environment tech … Flickr Pics Fixed Now I finally got around to fixing all of my pictures. They all go to their corresponding pictures now. I can get back to uploading all of my before and after pictures of all of the rooms in our house that I have painted and…
kind-environment New Items for Sale Page Please visit my new Items for Sale page. I have a few things listed there now and hope to have more there soon along with links to items that are listed by me on Amazon and eBay. Please leave a comment on this post…
environment, green, kind-environment environment … Our New Electric Mower We finally did it! We bought an electric mower. Keep in mind, we did need a new mower. We are very aware of the fact that buying something “green” when you do not need to replace a product you already own does not pay…
tech, kind-environment tech … Flickr Pics Fixed We have figured out a fix for getting my pictures to work when they are on the same line. The problem is not with Flicker but with WordPress’ text editor. Why this didn’t show up when I was using WordPress’ “Add an Image”…
fitness, P90X, kind-environment fitness … Back on P90X The colds are gone and muscles are repaired, so on with the show. Last night we started back on the P90X program. Before we started, we took our measurements (the same ones we have tracked from Day 0 and Day 14). In most cases,…
social, tech, kind-environment social … Flickr Pics If you have clicked on any of my pictures on my blog recently, you probably noticed that half the time you don’t get the picture you thought you would. I switched to Flicker for my images and the editing is a little buggy.…
color, house, life, livingroom, painting, kind-design color … Blue to Brown I was visiting with friends this weekend and I mentioned painting my living room again. I started talking about what color the living room used to be and what it is now. While I was on my way home, I was thinking about the…
gaming, geekdom, tech, kind-tech gaming … Kingdom Hearts II Today, I sold my Kingdom Hearts II video game for the Playstation 2. My trend recently is to get a video game, play it, beat it, and then sell it. I looked into trading in, but you usually get so much more for the…
.NET, ASP, development, security, webDevelopment, kind-tech .NET … Web Page Security - New Version Some of you know me as a friend and code poet. Some know me as the crazy guy trying to get donations for his dad to get him a Wii. Some just know me as “that guy who wrote the web page security module…
gaming, kind-tech gaming … My Dad Needs a Wii My dad and I have a lot of memories involving late nights up playing games. There was the time I got home at around 2:00 AM from working at my inventory job in college, only to find him playing Hexen with a friend…
food, kind-environment food … Dinner Company Visit Today we prepared our meals for a month at The Dinner Company. We were the only ones there other than one of the owners. It really is nice when there are not a lot of people to compete with for food stations, however, it…
environment, goGreen, kind-environment environment … Saving Electricity My husband was looking up the wattage of common items around the home and stumbled upon this site Saving Electricity. Some of the information seems a little outdated, but there are signs of current information being added and some of the information is probably…
environment, goGreen, health, organic, kind-environment environment … Can one person make a difference? For the past week, I have had a one line phrase repeating in my head whenever I get into my routine duties like washing dishes, laundry, and cleaning the cat box: “Can one person make a difference?” It all started with a conversation I…
fitness, P90X, kind-environment fitness … P90X: Thoughts on another off week Matt is showing signs of progress on his healing from the muscle strain. We don’t want to chance it and have him re-injured, so we are taking another week off. This week, I am hoping I can do one of the exercises on…
fitness, P90X, kind-environment fitness … P90X: Thoughts on Week 3 This week was a little rough. We think my husband strained a muscle during one of the exercises, so by Thursday, Yoga was a no-go. We did the muscle workout on Friday. Saturday we had a yard sale for about 6 hours which left…
environment, goGreen, outdoors, kind-environment environment … The Neuton My husband’s, step mother’s mom just bought a new electric lawnmower and absolutely loves it. It is so quiet that she says, “the only thing you hear from it are the blades spinning”. Now that is what a lawnmower should be like…
