Moose and Ink

Grunt Grunt. Today, Steph surprised me with an early birthday present – a Makita 18V Cordless Drill. Woohoo!  Yeah, so I enjoyed it 🙂  I’ve needed a drill for quite a while and kept saying “I should buy a nice one” every time I got a few extra bucks.  The…

Thursday night is typically Tae Kwon Do/Jujitsu sparring night. That’s the night us guys get to beat the hell out of each other without any interference from wives (I should note – they don’t give us much sympathy).  Tonight was different because my sparring partner didn’t show up.  My instructor…

I don’t know who Brad is, but I sure do love that nailer of his.  My wife, however, seems adverse to me having possession of a device that shoots pointy objects at a high velocity.  *kicks the ground*  Shucks.

Pretty cool article –The Reality of a Times Bestseller. Lynn Viehl made the New York Times Bestseller list.  Twilight Fall was listed at #19.  Very respectable.  She had made a promise long ago though that if she made the list, she’d release how much money she made out of it. …

Rough day? Oh, I couldn’t begin to tell you. Try me. Well, first, the sun didn’t come up until sometime past six.  Then it took a good two or three hours for the rays to get in here.  And they kept moving!  I mean, what’s up with that?  I had…

This is my calendar at work today. Listed at 1:30 is the User Services meeting of which I am part as the Lead of the Help Desk.  We have these every few weeks so we can get together.  Today brought good news. The meeting was  canceled! Bad News!  No one…

How does the Hughes household know it’s Spring?  Because we have this conversation… Steph: I heard a lawnmower! Me: I’m not mowing the damn lawn!

Those, my friends, are a brand new pair of running shoes. ASICS Gel Cumulus 10s to be precise, size 9 ½. For a distance runner, a new pair of shoes is quite a treat.  It means leaving behind an old pair and as you put them away, be it in…

Bravo. Okay, so that marks twice in one week I’ve used a term I never use, but in this case, it’s warranted.  The Supreme Court of Iowa has unanimously said that marriage is no longer limited to just a Man and a Woman.  “The Iowa statute limiting civil marriage to…