These past few days have taught me a lot about smoke, smoke damage, and roast beef.
You see, someone in our house (her name starts with an ‘A’ and ends with ‘mber’) was trying out a recipe using roast beef.  It involved boiling the meat for about an hour, with a certain amount of water in [...]

Our 7 month basement remodel project is finally done.  I hated just about every minute of this project, but I love every minute I am in the basement now.  So I decided to post some pics, along with my comments.  Since I tell everyone the same thing when they see it, you can rest assured [...]

About 6 months ago, Amber and I had a great idea for remodeling our basement. It was finished really poorly the first time, and it was a really uncomfortable room. The heating was inadequate, the carpet practically non-existent, the walls were made up of warped paneling, and the layout wasn’t all that useful. [...]

I wanted to keep a picture of this house where I could find it later, so i am keeping it here.
Cool house, huh?

I have always wanted to live life on my own terms. Thoreau did this- he took it to the extreme. I am not very satisfied with my professional life right now, so this idea keeps coming back to me.
Lately I have been thinking a lot about buying a few acres about an hour [...]

Last week I posted my thoughts on Home Depot’s customer service. In the interest of fair and balanced coverage, I should really discuss what I hate about Lowe’s.
Four years ago I bought a fridge there. It was the first purchase I had made at Lowe’s. When they delivered the fridge, it was [...]

Seth Godin recently posted about his experience at Home Depot, and Lindsey recently had her own encounter with that famous customer service. It all got me thinking about my biggest problem with the superstore. Something has gone wrong with their strategies to get customers to buy more, and I have just about given [...]

It seems that the only times that I have anything interesting to blog about are the times I have no time to blog. Is it a process doomed for failure?
I see something similar in the marketing efforts of startups and other small businesses. In a small business, it is difficult to balance getting [...]

I suffer from a consumption disorder. Not eating, but consumerism. About every 6 months or so, I get so tired of all the things I have bought. All the things I have made. All the clutter. I want to purge it all from my system.
The problem is that I keep [...]

Adam just wrote about Waiting. Things he wants to happen faster, and things he wants to slow down. It got me thinking about what gives me enjoyment in the present.
When we are kids, there is quite a bit of free time to do whatever you want. There is also a lot of [...]