Les Misérables is in town, and I would love to see it. I’ve seen it three times, but it’s one of those shows that I could see a million times and love it more each and every time. Problem is: the tickets are minimum $200.00. The best seats still available are over $300.00. $300.00 for [...]

While I was shopping for a gift for my dad I must have mentioned to somebody something about how someday I wanted to build model ships. My dad caught wind of it, and on Christmas Eve I opened a nice set of knives and razors suitable for working with small wood parts. I was really [...]

As the family’s computer guy, I often get asked to fix, maintain, look at, improve, or otherwise modify my family’s computers over vacations. This Christmas vacation is no exception. While I was at my brother’s house he asked me to look at his computer–remove spyware, make sure everything was running smoothly. I updated Spybot to [...]