Archive for month: December, 2010

HNT – 278

Thursday, December 30th, 2010 @ 12:00 am | General | By: Midwestern City Boy

Osbasso requested that everyone pick go back through their own archives and choose their favorite HNT of 2010. We usually have a both favorite photo HNT and a favorite video HNT but we didn’t post any videos on Thursday this year so we only have a photo. Our favorite photo HNT was from HNT – [...]

Random Wednesday #26

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 @ 6:45 pm | Random Wednesday | By: Midwestern City Boy

Miscellaneous musings from the mind of Midwestern City Boy (and sometimes California Girl). The final reports are available online and both kids got the grades that they were expecting. It’s great to see The Girl getting off to such a good start; and its outstanding that The Boy is doing so well despite being in [...]

Two For Tuesday – 270

Wednesday, December 29th, 2010 @ 4:00 pm | Photos, TFT | By: Midwestern City Boy

We had been planning to get a new comforter set for a while but never did until one day when we were out shopping for Christmas presents. The master bedroom looks a lot better with the new bed stuff. Plus the set that we purchased came with a few more pillows which can come in [...]

Happy Holidays To You

Saturday, December 25th, 2010 @ 12:00 pm | General | By: Midwestern City Boy

California Girl and I would like to wish everyone a very Merry Christmas. Season’s best this holiday season. Midwestern City Boy & California Girl

HNT – 277

Friday, December 24th, 2010 @ 2:30 pm | HNT | By: Midwestern City Boy

As he does every year for the week of Christmas, Osbasso requested that everyone pick three HNT/blogger participants, but only three and then tell the world what you’d get them for Christmas, if you had the means to do so. We’ve done this every year since its inception and have always picked three new people [...]

Two For Tuesday – 269

Thursday, December 23rd, 2010 @ 10:45 pm | Photos, TFT, Video | By: Midwestern City Boy

We’re on Christmas vacation and busy holiday preparations, so we’re posting a video from this past summer that was never converted to a suitable size/format for the web. The video was taken outside in a nearby park during our Fourth of July vacation. With Tuesday being the first day of winter and today being one [...]

Its Not That Urgent

Wednesday, December 22nd, 2010 @ 3:55 pm | Bitching | By: Midwestern City Boy

Its only Tuesday, the second day of my vacation, and I’ve already received several “urgent” emails and text messages from work. I am amazed at the impudence of some people. Except for a few days at Thanksgiving, our kids haven’t been home in four months. I wonder how they would be if their kids were [...]

Not 2005 Anymore

Tuesday, December 21st, 2010 @ 9:40 am | General | By: Midwestern City Boy

The hit counter on our sidebar has almost reached three million visitors. That’s a big milestone for us since blog hit counters are so 2005 and it should have been removed years ago. The only reason that it has lived for so long is that it was my first WordPress plugin, and later my first [...]

Full House

Saturday, December 18th, 2010 @ 5:10 pm | Kids/Family | By: Midwestern City Boy

It took 16 hours of driving but both kids are home for Christmas break. The Girl is busy playing with the new Droid that she received as an early Christmas present. (Motorola couldn’t fix the one that I sent in for repair so they sent me a new one; but I still decided to keep [...]

HNT – 276

Thursday, December 16th, 2010 @ 12:00 am | HNT, Photos, Video | By: Midwestern City Boy

As he always does the third week of December, Osbasso requested that this week’s HNT feature a Christmas tree. We’ve already posted a photograph of us in front of our Christmas tree; so we’re posting a Flash movie of us keeping warm in front of the fireplace next to the Christmas tree. We’re using Flash [...]