Topic Archives: My Life

There are places I’ll remember
All my life though some have changed
Some forever not for better
Some have gone and some remain

12 years!

I have been married to Robin, my wonderful wife, for 12 years.  I am very lucky and married my bestest friend and boy have we had fun.
I love you Robin!

LEGO guns!

Broomhandled Mauser
I like LEGO and have since I was a little kid. As an adult, I’ve gone through phases of enjoying LEGO and just keeping it safe in storage. However, now that I own a house, I think I’ll make space for my LEGO collection so I can play with it.

Verizon ineptitude

My server has been down for about a 6 days. The short story of why my site has been down is because Verizon sucks. The long story however…
I discovered on Thursday (Feb 7th) that my server, gerf.org was down. I went home to check it out and discovered the dreaded blinking DSL [...]

Cathy Ferguson

I had this idea of this huge post I’d write about how I went about getting a house and the paperwork and all that stuff.
Well, it turns out I really don’t want to write that. Instead, I’m going to write about one of the people that I can really recommend; Cathy Ferguson our “mortgage [...]

Bang! Bang!

So, me and my wife got home from Ikea with a new Billy bookshelf for the dinning room (aka, book room #2 — book room #1 is the living room). We lucked out and found a spot nearly in front of our house, right on the outside of the curve that our house in [...]

No Laptop

My laptop has died a horrible death and I’m not happy about it. I bought it about 3 years ago from Linux Certified, way back when Linux laptops was a novel concept.
Currently, it just flat out won’t power up. There is power from the power cord (checked it with a multi-meter), but the [...]

Weil McLain

So, I’m trying to find out how old a boiler is. It’s in a house that I made an offer on and I want to know how old it is and any other information that would be helpful.
When I viewed the house, I took a photo of the model information so I could look [...]

Site Redesign

I have redesigned my whole site. While a lot changes are visual, there are even more changes in the way the unseen back-end parts have changed.
Previously, I had a modified copy of the default WP 2.x theme (which is based on Kubric theme). It was reasonable markup, but I spent a lot of [...]

A visit from sister Claire

My little sister, Claire came to visit. I wasn’t able to make as much time as I like because of other events, but I was able to arrange for her to stay over Thursday and Friday night. She was in town to help a friend do pottery and just hang out at the [...]

Auf Wiedersehen, Oma

When I was little, my dad and mom would take me to Germany to see my Dad’s mother. I called her “Oma” (which is German for grandma or granny). She lived in an apartment in Hannover. The apartment was filled with old people stuff. And old people, too. My Uroma [...]

Penguicon 5.0!

Robin and I enjoyed Penguicon 5.0 last weekend. We went for the first time last year and we knew had to go again this year (and next year and the year after that and…).
In case you don’t know, Penguicon is a Linux geek, Sci-Fi fen, Anime aficionado, and filk listener convention. As [...]

Hair yesterday, gone today.

I have been growing out my hair since about August of 2005 when I had moved to the land of Pittsburgh. I kept my hair very short in San Antonio, mainly because of the heat. Long hair in Texas is just asking for it but Pittsburgh has cool weather at least half the year.
The [...]