Category Archives: General Family
Some retooling soon
I’m going to restructure this blog and kick it back up again as soon as I get some back in adjustments done. Among other things I hop to integrate it more tightly with my dive log software. Right now I’m … Continue reading
Going, going, gone
After more then 10 years of having a blog, creating different reviews and posts and trying to engage the mini community I’m going to let it go. I will be keeping the DNS since we use it for other things, … Continue reading
Kaily get’s second place in tourneyment
In her first ever tournament she placed second and had the dubious honor of being the first person to perform.
Wells Fargo and loan modification on the consumerist
The consumerist has a couple more reports up from people getting ignored by the banks like WF (just like us) and all the delightful and ongoing ‘mistakes’ that seem to happen… gotta wonder at what mistakes become a pattern of… … Continue reading
verizon can’t find my house
So even after a year and several prods Verizon still can’t find Scotts Valley with it’s service deliver tools for fiber. It’s ok just to say we don’t have service in that area, but no Verizon actual denies that scotts … Continue reading
Fang and the belt blue belt chapter 17
Ok sorry if the site has been rendering really slow. The upgraded my hosting server which borked my slightly outdated version of gallery and caused it to stop rendering thumb nails which forced the full sized image to be rendered … Continue reading
Princes Parade
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messing witht he 3gs camera
I spent a little time playing around with the iPhone 3GS camera today in moderately poor lighting. My conclusion is that even with the auto focus control it’s still a pretty poor camera, even for a phone, and that Apple … Continue reading
Sitty up boy
Kaiden’s really getting strong he can sit up for a long time now. Still no crawling, though he is trying super hard!
Wells Fargo: more surprise paper work
So after much pushing the bolder up hill Wells Fargo finally admitted our paper work exists (3 months later) and we are good for review for the modification program. Except not really, it seems they decided to wast two weeks … Continue reading
property taxes etc
So I spoke to a very nice, and apoligetic person in the SC property tax office who explained how things work under California law. Basically you are SOL if you trying to be proactive. They don’t have any programs to … Continue reading
still no taptster
http://www.engadget.com/2009/02/20/philips-tapster-stereo-bluetooth-headset-loves-your-voice-needs/ and six months later, still not out. Little early with those product anoucments guys… :p
Kaily graduation
Well hopefully it is the first of many diplomas and not the last but Kaily graduation from her Pre school today and is off to the character building word of Kindergarten after summer break. For the record Kids Cottage (Santa … Continue reading
NPR planet money on Wells Fargo and Loan stabilzation program
Planet money has a interesting blog/podcast up talking about the issues we have been having trying to get our terms changed. http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2009/05/hear_your_future_mortgage.html#commentBlock Two scary bits. One: NPR couldn’t get a reasonable or even intelligent response from Wells Fargo. They did … Continue reading
Wells Fargo: home afordability program
So nobody ever called me last week, just the useless auto message. However today I got somebody on the phone who seemed useful. They took are finical information and claim to be sending us paper work to sign signifying that … Continue reading
L4D
I find valve’s claim of two new versus maps in the DLC to be pretty disingenuous. Retool two existing maps to work with that play mode is *not* the same as two new maps. That survival mode is fun (but … Continue reading