A quick Sunday out provided us a bit of shopping and a chance to get out of the house… Knowing that being out and about usually involves finding a place to eat, the drive up and down Manchester in Ballwin provided us an opportunity to view a large white truck with the words “Gyros” on […]

I used to swim when I was younger… Younger as in grade school & junior high. Lots of really early mornings to swim before school. Then weekends spent going to swim meets all over the region. I have a few medals and ribbons and what-nots. Even some nice heat-winning Coke and Pepsi cans… So you […]

Need your fix of Olympic goodness? Supposedly some 3,500 hours worth are going to be broadcast this year from China and sufficed to say, one person can’t really get 250 hours of coverage in a day just to make average. Thankfully technology has come to the rescue in terms of fulfilling Olympic gold for those […]

1

I love TopGear. It’s funny, whimsical, British and once in a while has something to do with cars. Originally I was a Fifth Gear fan since it was shown on the local Speed cable channel. But hiding over on the BBC America channel was an even better car show. It wasn’t until I had a […]

With fold out chairs and brownies, we enjoyed a third year of fireworks at Chesterfield Mall. While better than last year (but not quite as good as our first year) – our new Casio EX-S10 digital camera not only took pretty decent fireworks pictures… It made a pretty decent video of the finale as well! […]

Looks like my signature on the online petition to keep Netflix profiles around finally paid off! Well – probably mine and thousands of others (along with the numerous online discussions and posts like mine…) While this message came to light on Monday (I was traveling and not able to make a cool image for this […]

3

As it’s probably no surprise by now, I both hate Netflix and love them all at the same time. It’s similar to my relationship with Best Buy except that I don’t spend as much money with Netflix. Today I received a nice email stating that their profiles were going away in order to improve their […]

Many of you know of my already announced genius… It seems now that it may be my greatest downfall… It doesn’t pay to be smart and ignorance really is bliss if you want a long life — at least if you’re a fly, according to new research by a Swiss university. … This is most […]