Decorating for Christmas

As is our tradition, decorating the house for Christmas starts the Saturday after Thanksgiving. Kristin does most of the decorating, but things like lights fall to me. I refuse to risk life and limb to climb two stories to put up lights, so instead I hang them above the porch. I still need a ladder, …

The Ham that Saved Thanksgiving

Yes, a ham saved our Thanksgiving. I bought a roaster recently, and planned to cook our turkey in it, opening up the oven for side dishes. I’m one of those people who has to have turkey on Thanksgiving, but both Kristin and my mom aren’t big fans of turkey, so we picked up a small …

PIE Adapter = Car No Start

Today started off on a low note when I left for the day (or so I thought) only to find that my car wouldn’t start. I had the battery replaced a few weeks back, so needless to say I wasn’t happy about having this problem again. My dad came over, jumped the car, and we …

Washington, D.C. Trip

Last weekend (11/11-13) we were in Washington, D.C., to attend John and Kelly’s wedding. John is one of our friends from our MBA program at Washington University. We flew to Baltimore that Friday, picked up our rental car, and headed off to Alexandria, Virginia. We checked into the Sheraton Suites Old Town (high marks all …

Microsoft Plugins for Firefox

Over at IEBlog, Dean posted about some new plugins Microsoft released for… Firefox! Plugins are now available for Windows Media and for Genuine Windows validation. Hopefully we’ll see more of this kind of thing as time goes on. For the full story, see IEBlog : Genuine Windows and Browsers.