A blog from Grand Rapids, Michigan
Posted in Entertainment, Home on Jan 31st, 2010
Saturday night the wife and I went out to dinner at one of our favorite restaurants, Mediterranean Grill. I have only ever gotten just the pita from here and figured I would branch out and try something new. So the owner helped us pick some new items and the biggest winner was a [...]
Posted in Home on Jan 30th, 2010
Not to be out done, Maisy finally slowed down enough for me to take a few pictures of her. Normally she is running around the house at 220 MPH and she is just a little black streak. She is still full of kitten and is quite the opposite of Marv when [...]
Posted in Home on Jan 30th, 2010
I had the camera handy and Marvin doesn’t move much so it makes for a good time. You can see Marv was having a great time taking pictures.
Actually he kept falling asleep so I would make a noise to wake him up so I could take a shot. After a little [...]
Tonight is the biggest and brightest full moon of 2010. So even though the thermometer reads 10 degrees, I went out with my camera to take some pictures.
I bundled up as much as I could with still having my hands accessible enough to focus the camera and the ability to push the [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Sports on Jan 29th, 2010
I don’t know about you, but when I think of introducing a hockey team, I picture conjuring hockey sticks from electricity, destruction of shipping, blowing up MSU, destroying the planet and other insane things. Oh wait a minute, I have never thought about those things when I think of a hockey team introduction, but [...]
Posted in Entertainment, Work on Jan 28th, 2010
This is an incredible video of Volkswagen’s Transparent Factory where they produce the Phaeton. I have never seen a factory with a wooden floor, at least not one from the last 80 years. Amazing engineering.
Posted in Entertainment on Jan 27th, 2010
The wife and I Tivo the PBS show Austin City Limits. The wife and I really like live music and ACL is a good show to show case acts that actually write good music. The episode that we watched tonight featured a band called Avett Brothers which oddly enough has a couple of [...]
So when I am getting snow off the roof I have this roof rake that I pull the snow down with. The less snow on the roof the less ice dams and I don’t get water flowing where it shouldn’t. Even though it has an expandable handle, it still doesn’t get me the [...]