My new favorite naming convention for businesses/shopping plazas is the combination of the street names it resides at. We drove by "Scharrington Dental" tonight, which is near the corner of Schaumburg and Barrington roads. I go by several on my way to the teams course in Northbrook: Waukdee plaza, at the corner of Waukegan and Dundee; Dunsten plaza ( Read more... )

Shoveling hasn't been too bad, so far, this year... a couple light ones and a couple heavy ones. I don't have a feeling this year about whether this is going to be a "heavy" winter, like last year was. I really hope we can avoid the storms on the day we're flying out this year, though. That was a little too stressful, last year. Good job, those of ( Read more... )

I'm bad at using gift cards. I've dig through my wallet several times in the past year and piled all my gift cards up and went to each website, one by one, to find the value of each card. The I try to use the cards... food-specific cards are the easiest to use. Store cards (especially Target, for some reason) stay in my wallet for years. And those ( Read more... )

Am I a Black Friday shopper? No, not really. I admit that I've spent half my day, and half of yesterday, at the computer, tracking good deals on my favorite shopping sites... and I do have five orders pending with Amazon, right now, and a couple with some other random places and I did get in one line this morning, but it was inside a store, and I ( Read more... )

The Droid has been pretty awesome, so far. The phone works. I just got my Google Voice invite, so we'll see how that affects things. It should, at least, open up some cool voicemail options. The web works. The apps work... though, the web apps still seem redundant, with such a good browser onboard. With the push gmail, I get notified on my phone ( Read more... )

This is a test as much as it is a blog. I replaced my phone, today, with a Motorola Droid. This is one of the first android devices on Verizon as well as one of the first with android 2.0. It's a huge upgrade for me. I barely had web access, before, now I have a honest-to-goodness browser. I waited for android to come to Verizon and resisted the ( Read more... )

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So, I've had to create and send PDFs to coworkers this week. I hate PDFs. I believe that they are the devil's file format. Why would I sink to such a level, you ask? Because my boss doesn't have/can't operate Excel (and doesn't have the web savvy to use Google Docs). There's lots of rumblings about our boss, but that's really nothing new. I hate ( Read more... )

I found out, today, that Andy Jones died. I don't know any details. I don't know how to feel, yet. I have good memories of Andy Jones from high school. He was a talented dude. He had the ability to do whatever it was he chose to do, very well. He knew how to be excellent. He'll be missed. I dunno if I have a favorite Andy memory. The first thoughts ( Read more... )

Today, I fixed a leaky bathtub faucet. I don't think I've done much in the way of plumbing ever in my life... maybe taken off a faucet handle and then decided the job was too much for me or finding a leak, but then calling someone about it... or pouring drano down something. This was certainly the first time I ever actually fixed a leaky faucet. It ( Read more... )