The life and times of a happily married couple in Ohio.
What’s on MCB’s Mind
It wasn’t a pay raise or anything like that; but, when I got into work today, I received news that made me want to do the Snoopy dance. It was a very good day! Even the fact that our printer was out of ink and we couldn’t print the envelopes for the last [...]
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 [...]
Happy New Year! The first post of the new decade is a good occasion to list my resolutions for the upcoming year. Most people usually post their list on New Year’s Day; but I was busy enjoying a rare BCS Bowl victory by the Buckeyes. Here’s a recap of my resolutions for 2009 and how [...]
For the second time in three weeks, The Girl has gone on a school trip and we’ve been by ourselves in the evening for a few days during the week. We’ve been home alone many times on weekends; but it’s different not having the kids around on a work/school night. Most of the occasions when [...]
Long ago, one of my online handles used to be Handyman. Not because I was a prolific DIYer; but from the prehistoric human Homo habilis. These days; however, I’ve become more of a traditional handyman. I seem to be spending a lot of time fixing things that are broken. In addition to keeping three cars [...]
That’s what I weighed when I visited the doctor today for my semi-annual checkup. I don’t obsess about my weight; but I do take note of it whenever I weigh myself on a balance scale. We’ve got an electronic scale that we use; however, the readings fluctuate depending upon the temperature so it’s not useful [...]
It kinda got lost in the rush of Father’s day weekend; but I reached my target weight even with a big Father’s day diner. I’m going to continue dieting until at least Friday; but anything I lose from this point is a bonus. It’s a small victory since I didn’t have that much to lose [...]
California Girl and I went to a party on Saturday night. It was kinda out in the country and the hosts were gracious enough to let the guests ride their four-wheelers. Since the controls are mostly the same, driving one made me think about days gone by when I used to ride motorcycles. I wouldn’t [...]
I mentioned a couple of weeks ago that I had lost 14 pounds since I started my diet in the middle of April. Progress over the past few weeks has been slow; but, I have finally achieved my goal of losing 18 pounds. Since I’ve been doing so well resisting snacks, I changed my goal [...]
I started on a diet this weekend and its killing me. It’s hard to OD on basketball (the first round of NBA playoffs) when you can’t have any munchies. I don’t usually diet; I prefer to increase the duration and intensity my workouts instead. But I noticed that I was snacking a lot. So, I’ve [...]
