The life and times of a happily married couple in Ohio.
Complaints About the World
There is a saying that “Bad things come in three’s.” We’ve never accepted such things as true; but, believe it or not, we had a third unexpected major expense last week. We were hoping for a change of luck after the events discussed in our Raining In February and The Rain Continues posts. Unfortunately, we [...]
I drove over a big nail sometime on Monday so I had a flat tire today when I woke up this morning. That would not have been so bad except that the hole was too close to a patch from a previous repair so I ended up having to buy a new tire. And full [...]
California Girl and I are getting very tired of emergencies. Lately, it seems like the only luck we have is bad. On Friday, we had to go went deep into our “rainy day” fund. And, even when we’re not spending money unexpectedly, we’ve always got April 15th lurking in the back of our minds. We [...]
Sorry that we haven’t been around the blogosphere much lately; but, like all of you, we live in the real world too; and, sometimes, life gets in the way. It wasn’t one big thing; so much as it was an accumulation of a bunch of little things. First, when I was running on the treadmill, [...]
I HATE Blogger! It was only a few months ago that I was complaining that Google changed the way that OpenID works for leaving authenticated comments. They changed things again on Sunday or Monday so once again I couldn’t leave comments on anyone’s Blogger blog. Of course they never announce their changes beforehand or even [...]
I hate doing the homeowner thing when it comes up unexpectedly in the winter. It was already late when I got home since I was delayed leavening work and then had errands on my way home. Of course, the closet door broke as soon as I opened it to put away my business causal clothes [...]
As many of you know, I take care of things around MariredInOhio.com myself. It’s usually not a problem being your own system administrator except when you spend all evening trying to fix a problem with your mail server; only to discover that it’s actual a problem on the receiving system. Monday was one of those [...]
January
Did a lot of tinkering with the number of posts on the front page to speed up page load times. Finally I wrote a plugin that shows all posts published in the last seven days on the home page.
Created and published our favorite HNT photo post of the year.
February
Got California Girl a nice skirt [...]
What do you get for the man who has (almost) everything and doesn’t like anything that he doesn’t purchase or select himself? I knew what I was going to get California Girl months ago, and have had the kids’ “Santa” gifts identified since before Thanksgiving. I found gifts for everyone else in our extended family [...]
Now we know what our “big gift” for the family will be for Christmas. Unfortunately, the television in our living room just died so we’ll be getting a new TV. This isn’t the best time to buy consumer electronics; but, even though we get a lot of our information/entertainment from the internet, we all still [...]
