Moose and Ink

While I really don’t want to go into the context behind which prompted this, this quote sums up today quite well:   It’s not clever. And the failure mode of clever is asshole. — John Scalzi (@scalzi) January 27, 2015   (A detailed explanation behind that theory – http://whatever.scalzi.com/2010/06/16/the-failure-state-of-clever/)

Steph is away on a business trip right now. Luckily, this is her only one of the year that we know of, unlike the past few years where I felt more like a hotel butler each time she came home. “Hello, Mrs. Hughes. We have your room made up for…

So it’s a new year, huh? 2014 was … a year. There was a lot of good in it – a Disney Marathon, going paint balling with new friends, meeting old friends at Paradise Icon, and Hawaii, of course. There was some low moments but I’m going to try not…

This weekend we made our yearly trip down to St. Louis to hang out with some friends. All in all, it was a good time. We ate at some good restaurants, hung out, did a little bit of shopping, and discovered the place that brewed my favorite root beer no…

Vacation is over and we’re back home. I had planned on updating the blog while in Hawaii but Internet was too spotty for that. More to come in the next couple of days after we’ve sorted through our pictures, etc. In the meantime, it’s time to do laundry, buy groceries, pacify…

Once again, I’m lax on updating the blog. Given the busy start of the school year and life outside, I haven’t had a lot of opportunity sit down and play with the blog. Nor has there been all that much excitement that I felt was spectacularly interesting. But seeing as…

Hi there blog. Yes, yes, I know I haven’t updated you in a long while. I’m sorry, really, I am. What’s my excuse? Well … Summer has been really busy around here – both in and out of work. The start of the school year is always crazy and this…

Back when we lived in Cedar Rapids, our house was on very sandy soil which meant that if it wasn’t already growing, there wasn’t much change anything new would come up (and believe me, we tried). Moving up to Decorah meant  a new house and a new yard. Right off…

Wednesday was a glorious day for a dentist and his boat payments as he yanked the Wisdom Teeth out of my head. This was all done at 6am, before I had a chance to be fully coherent and fight back. It started off well with the dentist walking right past…

This weekend I went to France. Well, sorta. I and a group of friends gathered in Albrightsville, Pennsylvania to partake in the 2014 ION (Invasion of Normandy) Paint Ball event. TL;DR: ION is 4500 people gathering in a paint ball scenario event based around the Invasion of Normandy and the events…