My French press coffee maker broke in the dishwasher this weekend. I can’t tell you how distraught I felt. I’ve asked for a new, larger capacity model for Christmas… so now I can’t go out and BUY something I might get as a gift. That’s bad list-making mo-jo, man.
So here I am, drinking weak ‘drip’ brew, a victim of my own sensibilities… a modern day…
If you see me on Monday and I’m looking a little off my game, this is the reason why: Cascading Style Sheets… or CSS for short. For some reason I thought it would be swell to teach myself a few more of the basics of CSS this weekend… and try to set up a simple page as a test. The result is a new, minimalist home page for my web site. It’s plain, it’s a creativity free…
How often do you open a Christmas card, only to find in its place a glitter bomb? No, no one is sending explosive devices to me in the mail. This is not an intentional act of vandalism; at least I don’t think it is. These are the decorative cards that look so sparklely on the shelf, but invariably loose some of their shine in transit. No matter how careful I am when I open the envelope, I am…
I want to say publicly that I am proud of my daughter. A short time ago she got her first report card of the ‘big kid era.’ I was her first report card on the A – F grading scale, and therefore her first opportunity to make the honor roll – which she made.
Then last week I picked her up from Tae Kwon Do and caught the tail end of her lesson. She had been one of three…
It looks like today is the big day… the day James Baker and the Senior Singers release their album of Middle East greatest hits. After having the war up on the lift for a few months, it looks like Jimmy and the boys are going to recommend rotating the tires and driving home – eventually, at some time yet to be determined. Now that’s a bold move.
Speaking of weak (and shifting…
This entry isn’t terribly timely. It’s another entry I’ve been kicking around for awhile, in my spare moments.
There’s a persistent rumor floating around that we have a professional sports franchise in this area that plays football. Alas, this rumor is wholly unsubstantiated.
But I didn’t start this entry to talk football. I wanted to talk off-season baseball……
I am disappointed in Beth’s school. A week ago we were filling out a permission slip for Beth to go on a field trip. A trip to Ruth Eckerd Hall is routine around these parts, so I thought nothing of it. However, when I signed the slip waiving any potential claims of liability against the school I had no idea Beth was going to be exposed to the Damn Yankees. No, I’m not talking about…
Lloyd Carr, the head coach of the men’s football team at the University of Michigan, seemed to have a gripe against Coach Urban at UF. He seems to think that some of the things Mr Meyer had to say while he was “politicing” for his team the last couple of weeks were “inappropriate.”
Let’s break down what Urban Meyer has said. Here’s an excerpt from an…
The Gators are on their way to the national title game. One thing I’m confident you won’t hear many Gators’ fans saying in the next month… the Gators are lucky there’s no playoff system this year. As good as UF and the SEC are, UF is probably not a great team. I have a sneaking suspicion they’re not as good as OSU. That said, their best shot at a national title…