The life and times of a happily married couple in Ohio.
For the fourth weekend in a row, I was on the road, this time to pick up The Boy from college. We’ve put a lot of miles on our vehicle recently and it’s not happy about it. We got stuck in heavy traffic on the way out and the engine started overheating. The coolant level [...]
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 [...]
The Girl didn’t have a soccer game today and is at the 18th birthday party for one of her girlfriends so we’ve got the house all to ourselves this evening. She has a summer birthday so she’s younger than almost all of her friends; but, it still doesn’t seem like any of them should be [...]
We got home late last night/early this morning back from taking The Boy back to college. He was excited to begin his sophomore year and we plan to visit him before too long; so it really didn’t sink in that he was gone for another school year until we got home to a much emptier [...]
Tomorrow is the first game of the high school soccer season for The Girl. It seems like just yesterday that she was a freshman stepping between the lines for her first high school game. Now she’s a senior beginning the final year representing her school. Two short months from now she’ll be taking off her [...]
The Girl passed her driver examination so now there’s one more teenage driver on the road in Ohio. She got points taken off for both the maneuverability test (stopping to check progress) and the road test (turning to wide); but not enough to fail. I was a bit nervous; but we let her drive home [...]
The Girl hosted “lunch” for the girls on her soccer team today. During two-a-days the seniors that live near the practice field invite the team over and today was our day. They were well organized and behaved. They got their own food, cleaned up after themselves and even provided transportation for the girls who were [...]
