Moose and Ink

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 you and some chocolate in Continue reading

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 to dwell on that. 2015 Continue reading

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 longer brews it so they Continue reading

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 the cats, and so forth. Continue reading

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 how I’m here now, how Continue reading

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 one was no exception. Constant Continue reading

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 the bat, things weren’t great. Continue reading

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 the room I was being Continue reading

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 following thereafter. As members of Continue reading

*walks past* *pauses* *looks at screen* Oh crap. This thing’s still here! Um … hi! Yes, I’m still alive. Just … busy? Steph has been traveling a lot and work has been picking up (summer is the busy time of year for IT folks in education). The few times we’ve been home together, it’s mostly Continue reading