So we hit a major milestone this weekend.  The old house is completely empty, clean and ready for new people to move in. The deal was that if I emptied everything and brought it to the new house, Lauren would clean the old house.  Probably 95% of the move was done by May, but there [...]

I can’t believe that something that was invented in order to streamline online payments has made it MORE difficult to make online payments almost every single time I’ve used it.  If it weren’t for eBay and all these little independent merchants who don’t have their own credit card processing, I’d never use it to begin [...]

Lots of things going on, as usual.  And because the tasks are piling up, so is my general list of maladies and complaints: Dear Best Buy, CostCo and all other brick-and-mortar retailers – I bring the product to the register and pay for it.  You give me my receipt.  Transaction over.  No, you can’t peer [...]

Weird stream of consciousness at about 7:30 this morning.  I was thinking about how much cooler toys used to seem back when I was in the target market.  Big Wheels, Star Wars action figures, slot cars, Stretch Armstrong, etc. – All these things would get me really excited when I was a kid. So then [...]

I thought most of the work on the house would have to get done on weekends and Summer Fridays.  But thanks to summer daylight hours, I can usually get a few minor things done when I get home from work.  I can’t save a major project like spackling and sanding for a weeknight, but I [...]

Since I moved in to my new place last Wednesday, there hasn’t been a day in which I haven’t made at least one trip to a home improvement store.  Sometimes, like last night, it’s for $5 worth of bolts and screws.  Other times, it’s for much more.  (Sometimes, I swear I can hear a tiny [...]