As a kid, I didn’t really eat pie very often. When we had dessert, I most often went for cake or ice cream. Or brownies. Or some combination of those. Or all of them. Regardless, I have developed an appreciation for pie later in life. I will never turn down some warm apple pie or […]

I had a dream. I dreamt I could order piece of a computer on the Internet and easily build my own machine. My family would live in a land of speed and magic. That’s what I thought three months ago when I hatched this scheme. To make things worse, I told friends about it and […]

As I wrote this, the pieces of my new computer sit in several boxes in my basement. I didn’t go on some angry tirade and break the thing apart. The shipping company didn’t drop a box and shatter the thing. In fact, nothing bad happened. I have decided to build our new computer from scratch.

Apparently Apple released some sort of new phone the other day. I think I heard about it because people were camped out in front of stores hours before they opened to get the new product. I may be wrong though because I think these Apple people were camped out in front of stores a few […]

I stopped by to see Maria at work last weekend. She just started working at a shop called Treasures downtown. I had nothing better to do since it was near the end of the Thanksgiving holiday. With several days off, Maria at work, and Bridget spending several days at my mother-in-law’s, I had lots of […]

You are supposed to be reading a column about Easter, but my computer is jealous. At least that’s the only explanation I came come up with why my laptop died the other day. I wrote while I ate lunch at work and everything seemed fine. An hour later, I popped open the lid of my […]