And the home improvement begins

We spent a week in our new home before heading off for a week of vacation and now reality is setting in. There are no big projects to do just yet, but I've officially started on one of the little ones. Today while I was home for lunch, I started patching small holes from nails and other such things in the walls. The best was the entryway from the living room to the Kitchen. The corner bead had been hit pretty hard and dented. It was covered with scotch tape and painted very poorly. I wanted to get at least some of the patching done at lunch so I could get it better filled after work. I went to all the effort of patching and painting at the old place just to do it again in the new place. Once the patching and touch up is complete I'll move on to replacing the kitchen sink and faucet. It's just more fun than I should be allowed to have

Reporting as a Citizen of Disneyland

My family as become Honorary Citizens of Disneyland! If you look at the picture closely you will see that the boys are wearing buttons that say Honorary Citizen.

We were all given these (everyone in our family that is).  We ended up getting to the park before we planned and were at the head of one of the entrance lines.  A worker (or cast member as the are called) came out and asked us how we were doing, he then asked if we wanted to help open the park. He then gave us the buttons and and a book to sign our name and where we were from.  He said he'd be back later for our help.  When it was time for the park to open we got to go inside the gate to be introduced and welcome everyone for the day.  Pretty exciting, huh?

Ah, the Intermaweb

After a week with no internet of our own, we are back on line. Stupid Qwest with their capacity limitations wouldn't let us transfer our service all of four blocks. I'm pretty sure we were freeing up as much broadband spectrum as we would have been taking up again. Don't even get me started on the prices Comcast charges either, it's no bargain. We decided to try a wireless broadband ISP in the area. They have decent speeds and good prices. I'll let you know what we think of Digis once we have had a chance to try it a little longer.

Happy Birthday to my Little Man

This little guy turned three today! He savored the birthday cake breakfast and has been having fun with the presents, if only I could be home having fun with him today.

Utah loves Woot!

Ever since I learned about Woot! from my brother, I have been loving this site. Judging from the map below, Utah loves Woot! too.


The map illustrates the number of sales to a state. Wyoming, right next to Utah, has no love for Woot! for some reason. Utah is the brightest state and therefore <3's Woot! I've only made two purchase so far, but it's exciting to see what random item they will offer each day. Every coupple of months they have a Wootoff where they sell items one right after another. At some point durring a Wootoff, they will offer a "Bag of Crap", it's a grab bag of leftovevers basically. I got one once and I can tell you that it was, infact, crappy stuff, but exciting none the less.

I've become obsessed

Since actually trying this game for the first time I have been wanting to play it more and more. It's fun and challenging, you built your train routes across the country or continent, there are several variants. You have go to try it. If you are a friendless looser you can play online, if you have a significant other or friends you can play the board game. It's great either way.

The Doldrums of March

It's March, I've been sick, our house hasn't sold, so on and so forth. The snow is gone, for the most part, and nothing has really come to life yet. It just isn't all that exciting, but I'll get through it somehow. I hope everyone else is having a better March than I am.