Category: life

  • Story from Joe Chrisman

    Some of you who read this know Joe Chrisman who used to be in our ward before they moved up to Sidney Ohio a year or so ago. If you’re not friends with him on Facebook, you may not have seen this crazy story that he shared over there. ==================(Again – reminder if you’re just…

  • Fantasy Football shenanigans

    So I am in a fantasy football league. This league is with several people that I was on my mission with and is run by my ex-mission president (who runs 3 or 4 such leagues with different ex-missionaries). We have been playing since 2000 and it’s a lot of fun. We play in Yahoo –…

  • I love when grocery stores pay me!

    So there was a deal at Kroger this past week or so (actually I think it has been going on for the past 4 weeks but I just found out about it – it ends today). Buy 6 Powerade Zero 32oz and get a coupon for $4 off your next order. Since the Powerades are…

  • Ghetto stud finder

    So, first of all, all the “stud” jokes have already all been made. No need to repeat them in the comments or anything. Anyways, we have one of those stud finders that run on batteries (speficially the iSensor from Zircon) With our recent spate of hanging things up and such, we needed to break out…

  • Service

    So…. as Carolyn pointed out last week, we here in Cincinnati got slammed last Sunday by the tail of Hurricane Ike. So we didn’t have much damage at our house, and unlike some people (who are STILL without power a week later), we only lost power for a few hours (we got it back just…

  • Soccer post

    I guest-wrote a post over at Carolyn’s blog about our recent soccer game, in case you haven’t seen it over there.

  • One of "those" work days

    Yes, yes, the other day I had one of those work days that Carolyn enjoys so much. You know, where I have to leave the office at noon and go to a park and eat pizza and play games all day. In fact, I believe she even had a little comment about this past one.…

  • Ed Mullinax is a friend of miiiiiiiiine

    Well, you know, not really. But while driving to Cleveland I saw a car with a Mullinax license plate holder and it reminded me of that eponymous car commercial from my youth. I also saw a sign off the Interstate in Columbus that said something along the lines of “Closed for the foreseeable future because…

  • Kids say the darnedest things

    So I wanted to comment on some of the things that I’ve heard various kids say over the past month. First off – the other day when my friend Brook was over trying to fix our van, he had 3 of his kids with him. After awhile of them sitting in the back of his…

  • General Stuff that is up

    So this past Sunday night / Monday morning (a week or so), I’m laying in bed when I hear one of the kids screaming / crying. I’m kind of half asleep, and it wakes me up. In my half-asleep stupor I wonder where Carolyn is. Not that it’s her job to get the kids when…