Archive for the ‘Family’ Category

Old Guys Rock!

Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008

My wonderful wife, snagged some Rush tickets back along, for the concert at the new amphitheater in Alpharetta, last night.  First, let me say that Rush totally rock. For a bunch of old guys (and I'm no spring chicken myself) they are just awesome. They played a mix of old ...

Update time

Monday, May 12th, 2008

Its been a while since I last wrote anything in here, so I figure I'll write something today. The big news (for those who don't already know) is that I am now unemployed. I was laid off a few weeks back, and it sucks but I got a severance package ...

Time for an update.

Sunday, January 27th, 2008

I'm feeling very productive today and figured that it is time to do another update on the blog, so here we go. I have a lot to write about; first and foremost is the fact that I have taken US citizenship. On Jan 10th I went to the local INS office ...

Happy New Year Everyone!

Wednesday, January 10th, 2007

Happy New year eveyone! Lets hope you have all recovered from the excesses of Crimbo and the new year. I'm not sure I have yet, and although we really didn't get much in the way of sweets, for some reason we still seem to be eating chocolate. This winter I embarked ...

Birthday goodness

Wednesday, October 18th, 2006

Yesterday I turned 41. Holy f*cking hell, where did the time go? Anyway, it was a great day. I had the day off work, and spent some time in the morning relaxing and pottering about the house. I then trundled off to the have lunch with Cat. We had a splendid lunch ...

Recent Camping trip

Thursday, October 12th, 2006

I'm not sure how many of you know but K and I are members on an online emergency preparedness . So if you click the link, you end up on a site called Zombie Hunters.org Why Zombies? Here is a quote I found (some time ago now) that ...

Shiny New Truck and other things

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

I guess it is that time again when I need to sit and write about all that has happened since my last ramble. Several things have happened and I think I can safely say that I am happy with most of them. So first and foremost - I have a shiny ...

new stuff … continued

Tuesday, March 14th, 2006

I put a new light up by the back door. Sounds simple right? Oh no it wasn't Well you see I have no work bench and no work shop so first I had to clear the shed, re organise it, then manufacture a workbench that I can fold up and put into the ...

England!!

Monday, February 13th, 2006

So the house is full of excitement right now - we are going to England. We booked the tickets over the weekend and also booked car rental, and we'll be staying for about a week. We are all so looking forward to it! With regards to the DIY, I managed to ...

First post of the new Year

Sunday, January 29th, 2006

So I know I have been very lax in posting but I have decided it is time to get with it and post again. I have some big news - finally we have all the paper work sorted out for the house, I have the mortgage, and the house sale ...