Square Foot Gardening
We picked up Mel Bartholomew’s Square Foot Gardening book last year with the intent of planting a small vegetable garden,...
April 8, 2010
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HTPC Results
[This is the final part in a series on building your own HTPC] The primary reason I set out to...
March 15, 2010
Home Theater PC
When you start the research, like I did, on building your own Home Theater PC, you inevitably come across a...
February 28, 2010
Green vs Green
If you want to “go green” for environmental reasons, that’s great. If you want to do it for financial reasons,...
July 2, 2009
Back to Normal
He we are at the end of another 30 days. I won’t talk about how difficult it was — I...
June 30, 2009
Time Wasters
I usually save links to post to my other site, but these don’t really fit that well, so I thought...
June 25, 2009
Hulu on the Wii
Last year we bought a Wii. Shortly after we downloaded the Internet Channel for it, one of its biggest limitations...
June 21, 2009
Grade School Reunion
I told a few people last week that I was planning a reunion for members of my 8th grade class,...
June 17, 2009
Schmittel’s Nursery
Last week I wrote about our new trees. We bought them from Schmittel’s Nursery in Maryland Heights, and paid them...
June 13, 2009
Chalkboard Door
In addition to the updated spice rack, we also recently remodeled the basement door. My wife has had the idea...
June 12, 2009
The Electric Car Cometh, Maybe
I’ve written about electric cars before, but for a while now I’ve been following what I consider to be the...
June 11, 2009
Our New Patio
Between increasing state tourism and boosting consumer confidence, we were already doing our part to stimulate the economy, but now...
June 7, 2009
A Poem Lovely As A Tree
It’s been a year since I last wrote about the torturous sewer project that transpired in our back yard. There...
June 3, 2009
30 Days of Blog – The Sequel
I’m probably going to regret this, but I signed up for another 30 days of punishment. Last year was a...
June 1, 2009
Magnetic Spice Rack Revisited
It was time to update our old magnetic spice rack and my wife found some cool magnetic knife racks from...
April 30, 2009
Free Energy
Last summer when I wrote about our solar water heater installation, I was anxious to see how it would function...
March 1, 2009
The End of the Road
Well, here we are at the end of 30 Days of Blog. It was fun, but I must admit that...
June 30, 2008
I’m Cheating
Fridays are the hardest. Whew. When I accepted this challenge, I wouldn’t have guessed that one day would be harder...
June 27, 2008
It Ain’t Over Yet
Looks like I might have spoken a bit prematurely last month when I said that the end was in sight....
June 20, 2008
Going Solar
As I mentioned previously, I was considering installing a photovoltaic system this year to offset some of our home energy...
June 9, 2008
There’s A Bathroom On The Right
If you’ve ever been to AmIRight.com, you may have seen one of my favorite misheard song lyrics — Creedence’s “bad...
June 3, 2008
Time in a Bottle
When I graduated college and started working full time, it was a bit of a shock initially. You never realize...
June 2, 2008
I Accept the Challenge
One of my friends from college (who blogs at the curiously named site Numb Trolley Bus) has issued a challenge...
June 1, 2008
