Tag Archives: Misc

Abstract Photo

My son loves playing with our camera and takes lots of pictures. Most of the pictures are blurry and we delete them. However, sometimes he takes a picture that looks pretty good. He was playing in my office a few … Continue reading

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End of Garmin Forerunner 305

Today, I got all my gear ready to go for a run and found that my trusted Garmin Forerunner 305 failed to turn on. I put it back in the charger and it went from Charging in Progress to Charging … Continue reading

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Alarmist News Reporting

While it shouldn’t surprise me to have news programs try to increase ratings by alarming the public, I was quite disappointed by NBC’s Nightly News on Saturday. Here’s my letter to them: On Saturday’s Nightly News, you had a story … Continue reading

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Affording cell phone service

Recently I replaced my cell phone and my wife’s phone with new ones. As I was doing so, I was quite careful about not getting a phone that would require me to change my cell phone plan. Many of the … Continue reading

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Is more security a solution?

I just heard on the news that the TSA and local police were beefing up more security at the Detroit airport. For off, this sounds like closing the barn door after the horses have left. Second off, the flight didn’t … Continue reading

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End of “Sacrifice the Tree” Holiday

While Christmas was yesterday, I consider today the end of the holiday as it’s when I started to see Christmas trees ready for recycling. While running today, I saw a number of trees at a local drop off facility. This … Continue reading

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Valuing my business

I’ve been a Bank of America customer for many years (I actually started with Security Pacific in 1991 which Bank of America bought). I’m in the process of moving my home loan to another bank because BofA’s rates are pretty … Continue reading

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Time or money (or quality just isn’t there)

Several months ago, my wife and I bought our son a Tonka Mighty Motorized Garbage Truck from Costco to give him for Hanukkah as he’s a bit scared of the garbage truck coming down the street and we thought that … Continue reading

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Complete and utter failure of the TSA

I’ve written in the past criticizing the TSA and up until now, I haven’t been put on any “extra screen” list as far as I know. However, that may change after this post. I had to fly from San Diego … Continue reading

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The right tool for the right job

It should be pretty obvious that you should use the right tool for the right job. Unfortunately it seems that when I do some home projects, I don’t always have that luxury. Yesterday, however, was an exception. last week I … Continue reading

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