I started reading The Purpose Driven Life a few days ago. The idea is that you read one chapter per day, and only one. Why? You have time to think about you've read for a day. Each chapter is roughly 4-6 pages, and it's 40 chapters. Even I should have th… more »

Earlier this year, I mentioned that we added on to our house. Well, the pictures are finally up. I'll only show the before and after, but you can see more pictures here. Here's what the house looked like before: Here's the final result: It's been… more »

As many of you can probably tell, one of my the things I enjoy doing is to pick NFL games every week. Right now, I track my picks in an excel spreadsheet. Not exactly ideal, but it works. And it has for the past two years. But as I start to look at h… more »

Today is my wife's birthday. She turned 11010. Yes, that's a clever "encoding" to disquise her age. I'm pretty sure she doesn't want that published, so I'll leave it up to you to figure out how old she is. It's a good thing no one knows binary these day… more »

My wife and I have been keeping a secret for a few weeks now, and after yesterday, we're finally able to spread the word. You see, yesterday, we had a doctor's appointment and heard the heartbeat of our newest edition to the Ross family. Hearing that rea… more »

Amazon.com came through a little earlier than expected. I got the Trilogy yesterday, just one day after getting an alert that it had shipped. Expected arrival was October 1st, so this was an unexpected surprise when I got home yesterday. I don't usuall… more »

Arrr! Today (September 19th) is Talk Like A Pirate Day. Sounds like another good opportunity to annoy the wife! more »

Obviously, I'm back from South Carolina now. It was a good trip, but Frances (at least the remnants of it) chased us out of Myrtle Beach. Literally. For three counties, right after we left them, we'd hear reports of tornado warnings for the county we jus… more »

I know, I know. I don't really post that much, but at least now I have an excuse! I'll be out of touch until September 10th or 11th, so the posting will be non-existent until after that time. Of course, this assumes no hurricanes, which it looks like Fra… more »

I've been watching the weather channel rather close lately. Why? I'm going to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina with my family on Thursday, and Frances is meeting us there. Isn't that nice of her? Well, it would be, if Frances wasn't a hurricane! She's expec… more »