Closing in on getting current. Today was a busy day helping my parents around their house. I started scanning negatives and transferring records to CD’s. Today was an easy one but kind of a repeat. The weather in Minnesota was unusually warm. It almost felt like Texas in November as it was near 70 […]
My wife doesn’t really like pizza. Well at least not as much as our kids. When they were younger we started the “tradition” of having pizza for Friday night dinner and watching TV together. As they go older it never really went away except when they had marching band or other activities on Friday night. […]
This may sound weird that I haven’t been able to get back to blogging on a regular basis for so long. Maybe it was that I didn’t have anything to say. Maybe I was just lazy. It could be any one of a dozen or more reasons. The things is I want go get back […]
Tonight my sons and I went and picked out our Christmas tree. Despite that fact that they are 11 and 13 they didn’t mind that we walked down to the neighborhood nursery to pick out the tree. They happily looked through the selection of trees and easily decided on a tree. After my evaluation of […]
Over the Thanksgiving holiday my parents came down from Minnesota. Growing up in Iowa we always had Anderson Erickson Dairy products. This time of year was especially anticipated as they make their Egg Nog. I don’t know if this is really good egg nog or just that it brings back childhood memories of Christmas but […]
I am reading a book called Switch How to change things when change is hard. One thing it talks about is focusing on the bright spots or successes that you already have and replicating them. This is a great More Than Half Full concept. Focus on whats working With out giving you all the examples […]
Spring in Texas Spring is a great time for cyclist. The days get longer and the weather gets warmer so we can ride more. The one down side about spring is that it often brings strong winds. Most cyclists would rather ride up a mountain pass than spend any significant time riding into the wind. […]
Spring is a wonderful time of year. The temperature rises, the days get longer and the annual greening of the world begins. I have never figured out though why the first thing that comes up in my yard is the weeds instead of the grass? As usual the weeds have come up full force encouraged […]
Just saw a video of Dharmesh Shah at SXSW and online marketing. http://tinyurl.com/yjkr7yx It is a good video especially for a coder. He brought up a great point. While everyone can keep doing the same thing everyday we all owe it to ourselves to find our super power. He goes into it briefly but I […]
Well its Monday morning. Time to check Facebook and see what all my friends did this weekend and how much they hate Monday. Facebook is a wonderful thing in that it lets people connect and share what is going on in their lives. The funny thing is that you can know what day of the […]