Month: June 2011

  • There Has To Be A Better Way

    For the past few months, almost every day, I’ve been receiving unwanted calls to my mobile phone. When I look up the numbers I see search results telling me that they’re for a diabetes equipment testing company. I’ve also seen it mentioned that people who did answer the call and asked to be taken off…

  • Knee Deep In Mud

    Sometimes you just have to go with your gut. Today was one of those times. I was out doing some Geocaching and after finding the first stage I looked at my options for approaching the final stage. I tried to make a beeline for it and saw that there were high weeds, trees and what…

  • Halfway To Ohio

    A friend of mine lives on the western end of the Lehigh Valley and we like to pick on her and say that she lives “halfway to Ohio” since she’s so far away from everyone. As “remote” as she may be, it’s nothing compared to some of the places I’ve been as I’ve traveled around…

  • Learning By Doing

    Today was a perfect example of how often times the best way to learn how to do something is to be faced with it as a problem. I noticed that my tweets weren’t appearing correctly in the sidebar of my blog. Only my tweets were showing up, none of my retweets. I searched and read…

  • Nose In A Screen

    I was on a road trip out to Des Moines in June of 2009 when I had one of the best wake up calls that I can remember. I was riding along in my friend’s truck and we were almost to Pittsburgh when panic had set in. I knew I had it when I left…