I was on a roll today: Got up at 6:00 am Stretched (It’s a big deal! Really!) Checked the forecast and rode a bike to the office space Worked and researched all morning on WordPress themes and plugins To top it off, I walked to Safeway to pick up some better things to eat for [...]

Wow. -13C? 8F? This is madness! And furthermore, a power outage that happens during the night of the coldest of the cold snap when the apartment uses electricity for the miniscule amount of heating we need makes for a rather uncomfortable morning. I have also decided that my cable modem and router will be on [...]

Yeah… This kind of sums up what I need to choose:

Updating this blog always seems like a pain. It’s that tension between presenting a professional image while being able to banter about the ho-hum and everyday things. When I think about it, I have enough interests to fill two or three blogs. My interests are all over the place and it’s so hard to decide [...]

There is far too much stuff in the house… much of it which I did not bring in. I will admit that I am a bit of a pack rat and all statements made about the fact that I “have a lot of ****” really are true but, I do it with completely reasonable intent: [...]

Finally going to move things out of “my room” and get them into the living room to polish that corner of the house. Tomorrow will be long and arduous but, it has to happen sometime. The house and job search go on. In fact, a the Americorps position which I mentioned on the old site [...]

Well, deploying a site on an actual domain is a PITA but, it’s done and WordPress had to come down from ericj2109.dreamhosters.com. For the next year, though, www.somelikeplaid.com is the home of my website and, hopefully, I get it up to snuff for the purpose of having my own little soapbox on the internet. Other [...]