I recently discovered that my new Macbook at work allows you to scroll the page by simply swiping with two fingers on the trackpad at the same time. I never have to line up the mouse on the little scroll bar and drag up and down. It has been one of those exciting discoveries that happen every now and then and become a fixation for weeks. Kinda ( Read more... )

I wonder how many people have ever walked up to their door at work or their front door at home while pressing the keyless entry remote (for the car) wondering, "Why isn't this opening?" For me? About seven times in the last couple years.

I found a couple of pics from our dinner at the Italian restaurant and then later at Tiki's.

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It's the Fourth of July. From our apartment we can hear non-stop fireworks around the neighborhood, and since Kailua Beach Park is having a fireworks show tonight, the town is packed. The smell of barbecue along with gunpowder attempts to erase the memory that Hawaiians may have when their queen was forced by American businessmen to abdicate her ( Read more... )

Being teachers, K and I have the summer to explore other avenues, and up until now, we've always worked to make up for the fact that teachers can always use some extra money. This year, we saved up and decided to spend the entire month of July in Hawaii ( Read more... )

1. I constantly know actors and actresses on t.v. that people don't seem to know, and they are always the "old" actors and actresses, like Don Rickles on The Daily Show the other night or Lawrence Welk, who was mentioned in a book I'm reading and no one seemed to know a think about him or his show ( Read more... )

Of course, I'm kidding, but if I could make a laws today ( Read more... )

Here's a spelling quiz I just made for my class of seventh graders. I teach writing at a private school of mostly affluent children who are normally strong writers and readers with great family situations, but spelling is a lost art ( Read more... )

Are you ever proud of the fact that you know nothing about something ( Read more... )