Is Calibre the take-down move I’ve been looking for? I love my Kindle. I love it, but I want to love it more. Right now I read the occasional book on my Kindle (although I’m finding myself buying more and more books for it) but primarily I read the New York Times. The one thing …
Yesterday afternoon, as we drove home from Boston, I was complaining to Danielle that I hadn’t been getting any writing done. I said, I think I need to set aside an hour every day. At least. We could set the alarm and actually drag our butts out of bed in the morning, she said. Ah …
Back at the end of September (!) I posted about my trip to Norfolk to find housing for our February move. I also hinted at another story at the end of the post. I think I’ve teased you long enough. Sean and I stayed with friends from the old neighborhood while we conducted our search. …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
The folks over at Military Spouse magazine have been publishing more of my stuff on the website, for those of you few readers who might be interested. One of my recent columns—on home schooling, which I don’t do but have thought about for when Sean is a bit older—ruffled one reader’s feathers, I’m proud to …
