So, I'm at exactly one month since my last cigarette. I was going to do some updates as I went through the quitting process, but I didn't want to have to go back and delete them when/if I failed. Historically I have had a lot of trouble quitting. I honestly feel like I've got it down this time. It's been a long learning process. At this point I've ( Read more... )

 Below are the pictures of my latest Lego creation. You can click on them to see them in my gallery or album or whatever it is called. I have comments written for each photo in the album. Plus, the pictures are bigger if you look at them there.


This was a fun build. This is the first "major" construction I've done since deciding that Legos are my ( Read more... )

I've been Jewish only for a few years. Somewhere around seven. That's a pretty decent number I think. I really do feel jewish these days. I rather like it, too. The only problem I have is with some of the holidays. It's not a problem with the holidays themselves, it's just that I have the problem with the holidays. It's me, not them. For example, I ( Read more... )

Last weekend we took the boy to see Phineas and Ferb Live. This was just as much a treat for me as it was for him. I love that show. Seriously, it's one of the best shows on television. I know, I know. It's a cartoon, but that doesn't matter. It's clever, has running gags, and the characters are completely lovable. I have to say though, the ( Read more... )

For a long time I never really had a hobby. Certainly not something I was ever consistent with. Sure, I've done programming on and off again for years now, and I've got the whole Android thing going for me, but I never really had a real hobby. I don't do trains or models or stamps or whatever. I joke occasionally that my son is my hobby, but that's ( Read more... )

I don't even know where to begin. Seven months is a long time to go between posts. I publish an Android App months ago. That was a fun experience. I haven't done anything else with it since then though. I've done a little poking at it, but nothing major. I'm kind of hung up on my second app and I don't really have a lot of interest in finishing it ( Read more... )

Over by the break area at work there's a plant that has a sign on it that says, "Do not water me." I assume it's there because people just dump drinks into that plant rather than walk 4 extra feet to the sink in the break area. Make sense, I guess. I can't look at that sign without wanting to add a line to the sign that reads, "Or feed me after ( Read more... )

As usual, my first words are going to be "Gee golly, I haven't posted in a really long time." There, now that that's out of the way, let me get on with the rest of this post.

At some point in the past decade I was informed by a dentist that I brush my teeth too hard. I don't think I was suddenly brushing too hard, I think one of my dentists just ( Read more... )

I know that it's a modern world and that chivalry is dead, but I've noticed an interesting trend. When a woman holds a door for a man, she goes first. She opens the door, steps through, but holds the door open behind her so that the man can get in without having to re-open the door. Yet, when a man holds a door for a woman, she goes first. The man ( Read more... )

I've been trying really hard lately to change my job. I'm not looking outside my current company, but I have been pursuing other interests from within. I know I posted a while back that I had applied for something, but for a multitude of reasons (none of which had anything to do with me as a candidate (or so I've been reassured)) that fell through ( Read more... )