I’m looking for home brewers (who are also military husbands or boyfriends) to interview for a piece in Military Spouse magazine. If I can get in touch with enough guys, I’d have enough material to do a feature on the topic, photo spread and all. I know a good number of military husbands are into …
In my last post I wrote that I was considering applying for and potentially leasing an apartment in a building I’d never visited. I was so lovestruck by the idea of living in the Ghent neighborhood in Norfolk and by the idea of a nice new shiny building, that I was very close to throwing …
I am considering making a deposit on an apartment I’ve never seen the inside of. Is that completely loony? Earlier this year, I had occasion to swing through Norfolk when Sean and I visited Danielle in Dahlgren. OK, since Norfolk is quite a bit south of Dahlgren, maybe “swing through” isn’t quite the right phrase. …
Ringworld by Larry Niven My rating: 4 of 5 stars Science fiction fun of the highest order. Ringworld is a great “what if?” concept novel about a group of characters on a mission to explore a massive ring-shaped world around a distant star. The ideas present here are lots of fun, and the characters are …
A couple weeks ago I got an email from Starbucks inviting me to be part of a group of “Beta Tasters” for their VIA Ready Brew Instant Coffee. They sent us a bunch of VIA and asked if I’d blog about it online. (They also sent a very cool Flip Mino camera to shoot and …
We had our first ever moving sale over Labor Day weekend, and we learned a few things. First, no matter what time you say your sale will start in your advertisements, people will show up one hour early. These are the hardcore. So you better wake up on time and get that coffee brewing. Second, …
The toll to cross the Pell Bridge out of Newport just went up to $4, double what it was before if you paid cash. The only folks getting a break are the ones with a Rhode Island E-ZPass transponder. They still pay only 83 cents. Those of us who got our E-ZPasses elsewhere pay…$4. So, …
(In the Navy, a “black shoe” is a member of the surface navy. A “brown shoe” is an aviator. There is some tension between them.)
Wow. I was cleaning my Thermos brand pump pot this morning with hot soapy water and a brush when the glass lining literally exploded inside the thermos. I almost pooped.
Yesterday, I had a beer-related epiphany: summer must be over. First, I was bringing a six-pack upstairs for the weekend, and I looked at my remaining bottles of Bell’s Oberon and thought, ‘I need to finish those up. It’s starting to feel like fall outside.’ Then, I picked Danielle up after work. She had gone …
