There are 746 watts in one horsepower. That means that a 250 horsepower engine is also a 186,500 watt engine, and that sounds much cooler.

So that's what I'm going to use from now on.

Of course, I don't currently have a 250 HP engine. It's more like 135 HP, but still, 100710 watts is a lot of somethings and sounds nifty.

Holiday weeks always throw me off. Where did Monday go? Did we have two Sundays? Or is it now Thursday, meaning that I got my Friday off this week ( Read more... )

So some friends and I have been looking for a good recipe for Mojitos.  And it just so happened that there was one printed in the Charlotte Observer yesterday!  Now, I realize that this is perhaps the most mundane of the ways we had considered getting said recipe, but it may be a good starting point...

MOJITOS
Makes 1. Adapted from "The Craft of the ( Read more... )

Shiny New Boy's plane will land in Charlotte in one hour and thirty minutes. YAY ( Read more... )

Isn't it interesting how random things can come together to produce unanticipated results ( Read more... )

Kayaking, when done correctly, is an excellent ab workout.

Kayaking while also pulling Mark, Lisa, and their canoe is more ab workout than I was ready for. I'm sore today!

Your [over]dose of cuteness for today:

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The last entry mentioned the correspondance between cars and boys. Reliant-Todd, Monte Carlo-Alan, and 'Ru-Josh ( Read more... )

[I wanted to title this posting "Of breakdowns and breakups" but, while I thought it was clever, it just sounded too negative ( Read more... )

I got a new blinky battery for my phone the other day (having ruined the previous one a few months ago at my birthday party). I needed a new battery, so I choose one on eBay that had blue LED's. Because it's cool, you know ( Read more... )