Lawn Care
After paying TruGreen and Scott’s lawn services (at different times) to treat our lawn with unknown substances, and not being satisfied, I figured I’d try my hand at my own lawn care – here is a program referred to me Read More …
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God’s Politics, Part 2
On the subject of the article How Do Christians Become Conservative? by Mike Lux, I had some thoughts I believe the world would do well to read, so I figured I’d make a couple posts about it. The first one Read More …
God’s Politics
So, a link to this article was posted by a Facebook friend… http://www.huffingtonpost.com/mike-lux/how-do-christians-become_b_570361.html The title of the article is “How Do Christians Become Conservative?”, and the meta description that Facebook extracted to display is “Jesus may not have been primarily Read More …
Resolved: No Vehicle Purchase in 2010!
I’m not one for New Year’s resolutions. If anything is worth starting next month or next year, it’s worth starting now. Besides, I know myself well enough to know that after a few days or weeks I’m going to wonder Read More …
Burj
Well, the Burj Dubai Khalifa, the new tallest building in the world, opened today. I am constantly amazed at super tall buildings, some of the most incredible industrial marvels in the world. I still don’t know how the engineers and Read More …
2009 NGC MS69 Silver Eagle
I had a great experience getting the newest addition to my MS69 Silver Eagle collection. I looked around on eBay for quite some time to see if the price would be right. But then I happened upon Paradise Mint, a Read More …
I Ain’t Buying It
Ginger and I went to see Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs today. As usual, we got there early because it’s a fairly new movie and we wanted a primo seat. So, as usual, we sat through the pre-movie on-screen Read More …
Franklin Half Dollar Collection
I just filled in the last blank hole in my collection of uncirculated Franklin Half Dollars. I’ve been collecting coins in some capacity since I was about 10 years old. I don’t know how it started, but I remember my Read More …
Free Stuff! (almost)
I got my rebates today, significantly reducing the out-of-pocket cost of maintaining my antivirus stuff. Instead of purchasing a renewal license for my existing Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2007 installation, I got a whole new one, Symantec Norton AntiVirus 2008 from Read More …
Shocking! (not)
Ginger was drying clothes last weekend… checked the dryness, needed to let them go longer, pushed the Start button, and… nothing! So immediately our thoughts went to the worst-case scenario: spending money (yuck!) on a dryer, and the painful process Read More …