I’ve known about portable browsers — the ones that can be installed on a USB drive, such as Firefox — for a few years. But I never really thought much about using them myself, that is, until I figured out how useful they are in situations where I do not or cannot have administrator [...]

It’s been a long time since I last wrote.  Honestly I have felt some burnout with too many things happening in my personal and professional lives. 
On the home front, we’ve been focused on completing the purchase of a house.  Wednesday we had the formal home inspection and discovered some things that needed to be fixed, [...]

Thursday evening, Michele and I signed the papers necessary for purchasing a new house. This photo shows the front of the house. (More photos of the exterior and interior are available here.) It has four bedrooms and two full bathrooms and has about 2,000 sq. ft. of living space. [...]

All of my life I’ve had a love affair with thoroughbred horses. I was too little when he was in his prime to really remember him, but I became fascinated with thoroughbred racing because of Secretariat, who remains my favorite horse of all time. When I was about 10 years old, my best [...]

The other day I took some photos of the kids. Cohen got all excited and decided to ham it up for the camera. This photo catches him in the process of doing a rollover.

Good news!  I will start my new job a week earlier than planned, on next Monday, the 15th of May.  In other news, we are now waiting to hear about a home loan as we continue to look for the right house in the right location for us.  If we are approved, we can then [...]

Late last night I discovered that this site had been successfully hacked. Some idiot was able to log into my account and overwrote my WordPress installation. But, not much harm done, frankly, because with a little bit of effort and because I frequently back up the content, I was able to restore FML [...]

Today was my last day at Endeavor. It’s a welcome reprieve! I had been wondering what could occupy my time ’til my original end date (the 17th). Now, I don’t have that worry and it’s like a big load has been taken away. I get to spend needed time on preparing [...]

I laughed ’til I cried when I stumbled across a blog posting about one person’s picks for the top ten weirdest TV shows for children (see Fireflies in the Cloud: The Top Ten Weirdest, Creepiest, Freakiest Children’s Television Shows). As a parent of three little kids (and one big one) who is forced [...]

I’ve long been fascinated with passenger jets and the whole flying experience, so it was with keen interest that I’ve read as much as possible about the decades-long knock-’em-drag-out fight between Airbus and Boeing over who will truly dominate the skies. I have to admit to being partial to Boeing. Sort of like [...]