2008

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Blood Ties Campaign: Recycle for Sight

Besides being a devout following, Blood Ties fans are proving to be resourceful in both giving back to the community and creating awareness of their favorite show. In their latest campaign listed on the Blood Ties Fans Give Back blog, Blood Ties fans are encouraging fans and...

Save Blood Ties Web Site

Press release from the Save Blood Ties web site. It’s nice to have once place with unified information about all of the difference campaigns to save this great show. Central website to save Blood Ties launched A new website, http://www.savebloodties.org, was launched last week and is intended...

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Apartment Search Completed

Some good news at last. I looked at two different apartment complexes, both about 5-7 miles from the office. The first place had a reasonable townhouse (1200 sq. ft.) for about $70 more per month than I was comfortable paying. However, it was available immediately and they...

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Apartment complex said no

My sister and I looked at a nice apartment community yesterday. I really liked it. Slightly more than I could reasonably afford, but it was biking distance to work. (Talk about cutting the gas bill!) The only down side to the apartment was their pet policy: only...

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WEBook — Writing en mass?

Here is an interesting idea: WEBook. According to the web site, the purpose of WEBook is to: WEbook is a revolutionary online book publishing company, which does for the industry what American Idol did for music. (Modestly speaking, of course.) Welcome to the home of groundbreaking User-Generated...

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House showing today!

The house is being shown today. Here’s hoping that the people really like it. I need to sell it soon. It’s getting old having it on the market… But the maret isn’t exactly spectacular either. Related Images:

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Some good horsey news

Remember the lady I had called earlier about boarding near Hillsborough? She called me last night. Her daughter is going of to college so she’ll have space for one boarder? Well she called me. Originally I had told her that what she wanted would be too much...

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Updating site…

The site is currently going some updates from WordPress 2.1.3 to 2.5. The photography page is offline while some compatibility issues with the gallery are sorted out. Hopefully it won’t take that long… but you know how it goes. Related Images:

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Looking at Rental Places

I looked at houses on Sunday with my friend in Hillsborough and my younger sister. We drove around Hillsborough and Carrboro (a little too far away from work to be feasible). One house sounded good: old Mill house built in the early 1900s with one bedroom/one bath...

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Update on housing situation

As much as I love my parents, there is only so long I can stay there without being in the way. One extra person might not be so bad — but there are three of us staying in the house right now. We’ve taken over almost every...

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Other funny tidbits

A friend of mine sent me a link to a page of Cat Resolutions, including this one: I promise I will meditate more closely upon the causal relationship between going dumpster diving on Sunday afternoon and projectile vomiting Monday, and being brought to the Evil Place Where...

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April Fools

New and improve weather forecasting! Read the amazing news at the Weather Underground: Cyclopsychic research breakthrough proves hurricanes/global warming connection Posted by: JeffMasters, 8:13 AM EDT on April 01, 2008 A stunning new breakthrough in hurricane research has conclusively settled the matter: global warming is making Atlantic...

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Silly Toad Song

I was looking for lyrics to a song I learned in my first chorus class* in elementary school and came across a hysterical little song sung to the tune of Oh Christmas Tree. Hee. I’m goign to have to learn this just to torment people with it....

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Posts suddenly appearing….

I’m playing catchup with posts, so if you see posts appearing for earlier dates in March, you’ll know why. I often email posts to myself with notes about things to blog and then forget to post them (or run out of time). Related Images:

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House update

The house has had quite a few showings, but no offers. Here is a summary of the showings: 03/22/2008 12:00 PM 03/22/2008 11:30 AM 03/11/2008 3:30 PM 03/10/2008 6:00 PM 02/28/2008 3:30 PM 02/24/2008 3:00 PM 02/09/2008 11:30 AM 02/07/2008 3:00 PM 02/05/2008 6:00 PM 02/04/2008 11:15...