I really hope my buddy Baxter is OK.
He’s a wonderful blogger who lives in Glasgow, Scotland, where two Asian men are now reported to be in custody after allegedly driving a Jeep into the airport terminal there.
Coming hard on the heels of those two diffused car bombs in central London yesterday, this is particularly ominous.  […]

The iPhone is finally here.
Folks were lined up for hours, even days, waiting to get into an AT&T or Apple store at 6:00 pm (ET) tonight to become the very first people on the planet to grab this little gadget.
The pre-release press is certainly impressive. The iphone is an ipod, cell phone, and wireless […]

There are two things I don’t have right now that I really want when we remodel the kitchen: a garbage disposer and a dishwasher.
I’ve been looking at KitchenAid Dishwashers online, and they are just about perfect. I’m a firm believer in “you get what you pay for,” and while these appliances do cost a […]

Well, as promised, the guys from Vapor Jet arrived this morning to clean my carpets.
I told you before about buying the certificate for cleaning two rooms and a hall, then putting it away in a safe place, only to completely forget about it until well after it had expired. They said they would honor […]

It’s time once again to renew our home insurance policy.
Why is it that all these annual bills come due at the same time? It seems that, try as we might, we just can’t get them to spread out over the rest of the year.
I’m without life insurance right now; I never picked up another […]

It was worse, I think, than herding cats.
I took a picture of the dogs today to send away for our “family portrait,” and as I suspected, cooperation was at a minimum.
I started outside on the deck. I figured they would look cute all lined up on the swing. Bad idea.
First, nobody wanted […]

I’m a firm believer in the power of prayer. I’ve seen it work.
Skeptics might call it coincidence, but it seems to me that when, for example, barren couples who desperately want children are finally able to conceive, or when inoperable brain tumors just go away, or when any other form of hopelessness gives way […]

I’ve never had a student loan, so I never had to think about student loan consolidation, but I know a lot of people who have.
Were it not for the availability of these government loans, a lot of folks could never afford to go to college.  Like anything else, the loans can be abused, though, […]

Do you think Paris Hilton will finally hire a chauffeur?
Now that she’s out of the pokey, she’s promising to be a good girl.  I for one hope she manages to keep her promise.  She certainly looked genuinely happy to be released from jail, and I don’t believe she would ever want to go back.  […]

As you well know, I’ve been working on coming up with an affordable way to finally get the new kitchen we need so much.  What you may not know is how many details there are to consider.
BJ and I have decided that keeping the old cabinets and just replacing the doors will add up […]