End of Silence

Tired of listening to those cable news anchorpeople? Want a concise, quantifiable summary of what’s going on “over there”? Consult the handy Iraqometer.

Here’s how.

This is either funny or scary. I can’t decide which.

I posted new pictures for the kids last night. They’re from my parents’ visit last weekend. Both were taken with my mother’s digital camera.
My back is recovering from a marathon weed pulling session yesterday. I’m learning the hard way how much work it can take to maintain a decent lawn. I’ve pretty much neglected the [...]

Well, we went ahead and did it. No turning back now. Hooray.
This resignation by a lifetime US diplomat is a couple of days old, but I’m just seeing it now. There’s also the resignation of Robin Cook, the leader of the House of Commons from a few days ago.
Even if it turns out that this [...]

I spent last week in Chicago on business. I’d never been there before, so I tried to do a bit of sightseeing and sampled a few different places to eat.
I had dinner a couple of nights at the Rock Bottom Brewery. It’s a chain, but the cheese factor wasn’t too high. The food was decent [...]

If you checked the site in the last 12 hours, you either noticed that you got nothing or that you got a bunch of php/mysql errors. Apparently, my ISP was applying some security patches to the server that hosts all of my sites and things went south on the reboot after applying the fixes. They [...]

It’s been making the rounds on blogs (I saw it on WWDN) and sometimes attibuted to John Cleese. It’s really from Satirewire.

I finally updated the picture of the week for both kids. They were taken at Ethan Shackelford’s birthday party this past weekend. The weather was crappy, but everybody had a good time. I’m ready for our winter to be over. One more month to go…