Austin and the surrounding areas have been almost completely shut down by snow and ice, or as the local media is breathlessly referring to it, “ICE STORM ’07.” It’s been below freezing since Sunday night, and we started getting freezing rain and sleet Monday afternoon. It continued throughout the night last night, and when I [...]
Articles in category 'Miscellaneous Ramblings'
In the past I have struggled with getting a random image from my photo gallery to display in the sidebar of this site. For awhile I was using a widget called wpg2imageblock that relied on the WPG2 plugin. This never really worked the way I wanted to, as WPG2 is intended to embed a Gallery [...]
It’s been a long time since I last updated this blog, and a lot has happened in the meantime. We closed on our house November 15 and moved in on November 22 (the day before Thanksgiving). The long process of unpacking and organizing everything is still in progress, but with help from our families we’re [...]
Tomorrow I’m going to the Texas A&M-Nebraska game in College Station. This got me thinking about what is probably my favorite football memory from my time at A&M: our game against Nebraska on October 10, 1998. In an attempt to get some good karma flowing for the game tomorrow, I thought I’d recap it here. [...]
Today was my last day at work here in Dresden. I gave a presentation at the staff meeting reviewing all the things I did here, and they gave me a nice book on Dresden and a box full of cool AMD goodies, including a yo-yo and lip balm(?!). It was a pretty hectic day trying [...]
