The Monkey Exhibit

I’ve neglected keeping up on domestic duties for too long now. Vacation is well over, and I need to see what I can do about re-tidying up.

Tuesday night I bough new stereo speakers. That means the big, huge ones can come out of the living room. Then, I combined the stereo center with the phone stand. Now I have room for at least one, probably two more bookshelves in the living room. I love it. We [...]

On Monday, the wife will have a wonderful gathering of social misfits and other people you wouldn’t normally invite into your house (except you, of course). This is called a candle party.
How do you prepare for a candle party, astute readers might ask. First the wife sends you outside. This performs two [...]

I’m currently trying to figure out why I’m so tired all the time.
My normal sleeping hours are from 10 PM – 5 AM. However, I’ve been to bed earlier all week. Usually I’m able to get right out of bed in the morning with no problems. Lately, I wake up [...]

When I arrived home last night, there was a message on the answering machine. My father left a message stating that my nephew had died this past weekend.
This message was from a father I never had while growing up. I didn’t really get to start my relationship with him until the [...]

Come, all ye who are feeling unwell, yet not bad off enough to stay home from work! Join me in rampaging over those who are not sick in any way! We’ll infect those closest to us, and, after the dizziness passes, we’ll spread out pre-disease thick through the rest of the building! [...]

I declare last Thursday’s game night, put on by ARGS, a success!
We started handing out invitations barely a week before. It was supposed to be a laid-back affair, not some big production. Whoever could come, could come. We weren’t working around schedules; we were just setting a date and saying [...]

At 2 AM this morning I woke up to use the bathroom. No big deal, go, come back to bed, go back to sleep. Wrong.
Shortly after returning to bed, I was again awakened by the loud sounds of jets flying over the house. This went on for quite a while, considering it [...]

The Anti-Rook Gaming Society (ARGS) has been born! The first gathering, a Young Couples Game Night is tentatively planned for March 6th in Brewer. Featured games will be recent popular hits Apples to Apples, Cranium, and Who?What?Where?
Who knows what the future may hold for this nascent group? Urban Myth? Trivial Pursuit? [...]

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Tomorrow I shall yet again proudly head to the rugged north* for a night of testing my constitution against the elements! The trip is long and fraught with peril, but nigh 14:00, 6-8 brave souls will strap themselves into the one vehicle that can survive the arduous journey. Yes, the church van will [...]

Last night I was at the inaugural meeting of the Bangor Area .NET Developers (BAND). Thank you Eric.
You’re saying, “Roger, you don’t even play an instrument.” You are correct. Neither do I play an literal musical instrument, to fit with the theme, nor do I play a figurative programming instrument. I [...]

This week I want to clean the dishes that need to be hand washed on a nightly basis…after supper (addended to meet the spirit of the project).
I’ve wanted to try this for a while now, but something always distracts me. I usually end up doing the hand washables once a week (or so). [...]

The one that someone crashed into on December 3rd during the snowstorm?
I just got it back from the auto body shop today. This always happens when I tell people I’m not in a hurry. I didn’t take me long to get attached to the rental car, though. After all, it was the [...]

Monday’s 12″+ of snow took some time away from the unpublished project I had planned for my New Year’s Day off. As you can see, it was quite an aggressive outline, considering I had the whole day off at home with my wife. I only got as far as the bolded work.
Clean corner [...]

I started a Project of the Week on 12/27/07. Today I mark it complete.
Deleted McAffee 12/27/07
Deleted AOL 12/27
Deleted Wild Tangent 12/27
Deleted NetZero 12/28/07
Added AVG Free 12/27
Added iTunes 12/30
Added RSS feeds, via Google Reader 12/30/07 (A thank you to Dan.)
Added Kodak digital camera software 010108
Ordered Microsoft Money disc 12/30/07
Couldn’t add zip [...]

Here’s a no-brainer post, and a good way to get back into the Project of the Week.
This week’s goal is to set up the new computer. That means add the software I want it to have and delete the software I don’t. It’s already up and running and has Firefox installed (I’m posting [...]

Let me tell you about my new computer:
Gateway GT5620 PC
Intel Pentium Dual Core Processor E2140
Each core operates at 1.6 GHz, 1 MB shared L2 cache, 800 MHz FSB
2 GB DDR2 Dual-Channel Memory
Video
Intel Graphics
Media Accelerator 950
Up to 224 MB of shared video memory
PCI-Express slot available
Ports
6 USB ports
Hard Drive
320 GB SATA II
7200 RPM with 8 MB cache
Gateway [...]

I’ve never really been involved in a car accident until today. I must say that I found it quite anticlimactic. It’s snowing. I was driving along my merry way, taking an alternate route to work since someone was blocking traffic along the regular route, when a big Jeep coming down a hill [...]

I’ve decided that you don’t really care what I’ve been reading recently or purchasing for CDs recently. I can tell because I haven’t updated that section in a very long time and no one’s asked. It’s out.
Apparently my link to gravyboy.com had a banner attached which was widening my sidebar. That banner is [...]