...in the punchbowl

Or maybe not…

Matt — Fri, 07 Mar 2008 15:17:16 +0000

From xkcd:

A saving throw failed…

Matt — Wed, 05 Mar 2008 03:03:47 +0000

E. Gary Gygax (1938 – 2008). R.I.P.

(if you must ask, you wouldn’t understand).

Books read: 2007

Matt — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 02:15:27 +0000

And so we start again:

Read to date, in roughly reverse chronological order:

A Decade?

Matt — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 13:31:54 +0000

Yup, a decade. Ten years of wedded bliss (more or less) with my better half.

I love you, babe.

Hitting the nail on the head

Matt — Wed, 15 Aug 2007 21:29:54 +0000

In honor of the soon-to-begin school year, I give you this.

Like a fine wine…

Matt — Mon, 23 Jul 2007 13:57:12 +0000

the love of my life is aging beautifully.

Happy Birthday, m’love. May the coming year only increase your charm.

Happy Mother’s Day

Matt — Sun, 13 May 2007 18:58:48 +0000

Anything I could write here would fall far short of expressing the gratitude you all deserve (especially you).

The truth about education

Matt — Thu, 03 May 2007 16:02:51 +0000

“America believes in education: the average professor earns more money in a year than a professional athlete earns in a whole week.”

Evan Esar, American Humorist (1899 – 1995)

(from Quotes of the Day)

Oxygen is bad for you

Matt — Wed, 02 May 2007 17:30:12 +0000

At least, it appears to be if you’ve had a massive heart attack.

Another day older and deeper in debt

Matt — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 22:31:18 +0000

Ugh. As I write this, I’m sipping bad car dealership coffee waiting for the clerks to start processing the purchase forms on our new car. Yep, it’s not a enough to move, we have to buy a new car as well. Actually, it happened the last time we moved, too; we just waited four months instead of one then.

I shouldn’t feel too bad about things. The Passat was starting on a “rinse-repair-repeat” cycle. And while the much-ballyhooed “German engineering” meant the car held together nicely, it also meant it had to be disassembled to do any repair or maintenance work. Have you seen what repair shops charge for labor these days? That puzzle work before and after the actual repair work can get mighty costly. Add in VW’s recommendation that the Passat drink only the finest of premium petrols and operating costs start to detract from it all.