Feb 29, 2016: Investing in the Future

So I just spent the last half hour signing forms to consolidate my stocks into a single brokerage account – what a way to start off the week! I don’t own a lot of stock, mind you. Only two different ones right now, actually… The first is stock in the energy company where my Grandpa worked for his…

Feb 28, 2016: Cheesy Crescent Dawgs

My food preferences tend to alternate between those of a five year-old and a college kid.  Pizza, grilled cheese, microwave nachos … it’s almost hard to believe my doctor has her own personal heart attack whenever I go in for my yearly checkup and she asks about my diet! Tonight I made somewhat of a…

Feb 27, 2016: Electrical Contracting

I’ve always been kind of terrified working with electricity around the house, even when I can confirm that the breaker is off and there’s technically nothing flowing through the wires … to the point where Sara actually had to “do the wires” when we had to install a new ceiling fan when we bought our…

Feb 26, 2016: Blogging Like Daddy

Christopher loves banging on the keyboards of the computers in my office. If we happen to leave the hallway gate open and he notices, it’s pretty much guaranteed that you’ll find him peering up at my desktop as he merrily bangs away at the keyboard for what I figure is one of two reasons: He’s destined to…

Feb 25, 2016: DVC

My wife and I have been Disney Vacation Club members for going on two years now. We bought our membership with some money I received from my grandparents when my Grandpa passed away back in 2014.  During that short time, we’ve already had some great trips – a Christmas overnight with my sister’s family, hosting…

Feb 24, 2016: 26 Terabytes

It’s been a little over a year since I started my little media server project and rebooted the idea of having a home server to store media, docs, and local backups on.  To think, what began on an old, discarded laptop and then migrated to my desktop hardware when I replaced it with my MacBook…

Feb 23, 2016: Over-Eager Cleo

If nothing else, I think we can all agree that this is disturbing, right?! Granted, Cleo’s been pushing her luck lately anyways by stealing entire cookies from the child’s hands, but long before she started down her cookie-thieving path she still seemed to have no qualms about gobbling for snacks smack dab in the middle…

Feb 22, 2016: Glued

We have new bedroom furniture being delivered in a few days, which unfortunately requires us to completely clean out the room to make way for said furniture. So far the job has involved a lot of trash, and a lot of dust. And a bathroom floor covered in Mod Podge. Maybe the cap just wasn’t…