A blog from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Posted in Home on Sep 23rd, 2009
Ok so after I cleaned out the electricity bills, I cleaned out the gas bills. Not nearly as complete as the electricity as I am missing part of 2006 and all of 2007 for a total of 18 missing months. That is a real bummer because that is when we had the new [...]
Posted in Home on Sep 23rd, 2009
I am doing some clean up of my files tonight. Not files on the computer but in an actually file cabinet. I have apparently kept every electricity bill dating back to the end of 2002. Probably don’t need those anymore. But before I sent them through the shredder I thought I [...]
I want more Fibre in my daily life!
Not the kind that tears up my intestines but the kind that brings goodness to my house. The wife and I were out walking and I noticed that there are white pipes with orange caps poking up out of the ground and the main road .8 miles [...]
Posted in Entertainment on Sep 22nd, 2009
We taped the new show Community that is set at a Community College. Watch it here on Hulu. It cracked us up. There was quick quips like “I thought you had a degree from Columbia. Yeah and now I have to get one from America”.
Posted in Entertainment on Sep 22nd, 2009
…cause I got nothing else
New Flamming Lips song and video. Wow
The Flaming Lips “I Can Be A Frog”
And Juan Pablo Montoya is a clown. Wanted to root for this guy because he is an open wheel guy, but apparently he thinks he is still driving F1 and has the attitude to match. [...]
Got another window put in the house today. This one went really easily and actually spent more time putting insulation in around the window. Tonight we went into eat dinner and then stopped off and ordered our last 6 windows. They had a sale on the windows right now also so they [...]
Posted in Entertainment on Sep 17th, 2009
I have used Tivo and MythTV as my DVRs in the past. The problem is that without buying a brand new HD Tivo, I can’t record cable HD channels and without some cludge equipment paths, it is not possible with Myth. So we are using the DVR from Comcast and this thing is [...]
Posted in Entertainment on Sep 14th, 2009
We were invited to watch the Celebration on the Grand fireworks this past weekend. But even better than just watching the fireworks was watching them from the 23rd floor of the River House, right next to where they were launching the fireworks! It was so very cool