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Well, it’s Labor Day weekend, which roughly marks the 3rd anniversary of Beth and Todd. We celebrated Thursday night (our actual anniversary) with dinner at Bloom. Yummy food, high prices. Definitely not a place to go for a cheap date. At half past midnight last night, I put a beef brisket on the smoker. We’re… Continue reading Various Stuff in Broomfield

Gasoline Prices on Yahoo! News Photos – Wow, $6 a gallon is a bit hard to believe, but here in Broomfield gasoline prices are now just over $3 a gallon. Compressed natural gas (CNG) is relatively a better deal than ever at the moment. Even though it keeps going up in price, it’s at $1.88… Continue reading Gasoline Prices on Yahoo! News Photos

“The one that blocks all the schmutz.” I love it.

Wildlands Restoration Volunteers | Projects – If you’re in the Boulder area on September 10 and want to do something nice for the surrounding wildlands, consider this volunteer project. Wildlands Restoration Volunteers is a local non-profit that fixes up places in the Boulder that have been overused – by foot or vehicle traffic, mainly. They… Continue reading Wildlands Restoration Volunteers | Projects

FREE Bullshit Deflector! – I love this. The photo of the 73-year-old veteran at the GW Bush speech makes me realize there’s still hope.

Wow, it’s been a month since my last blog entry. You might think from the lack of activity that nothing interesting has happened lately, but it’s just the opposite. In the past month I have: Finished co-writing my first ever full length play Directed my first ever play Traveled to New York for a wedding… Continue reading A Busy Month

G.M. Posts Third Straight Quarterly Loss – New York Times: “DETROIT, July 20 – General Motors today reported its third straight losing quarter as it struggles to overcome wide-ranging troubles in its home market.” I’ll repeat my rhetorical question from April: Is there a correlation between technical innovations in fuel economy (like Toyota’s Prius, contrasted… Continue reading G.M. Posts Third Straight Quarterly Loss – New York Times

It has been brought to my attention that modern American English grammar no longer requires two spaces after the period at the end of a sentence. One space is considered correct nowadays. Every sentence I’ve typed for the past 20 years has ended with two spaces, and that’s a lot of sentences! In fact, hitting… Continue reading When Did We Lose The Space?

Death Star [Subwoofer] Plans : For Imperial Eyes Only I WANT ONE!

I’ve been lax in reporting it, but last weekend was the Bradley 2005 Reunion. I planned it this year, and took a 4 day weekend for it. I think everyone had a good time. It was much more centered around activities than in some years past. The two biggest bits of fun for me were… Continue reading Bradley 2005 Reunion