The three-month heat wave that began in late June which sparked dozens and dozens of above-90-degree days and forced Nicole and me to buy an air conditioner is finally over. For this area to not get any rain for months at a time is bizarre. The heat was too much and really made it impossible to do a lot of things. It's wild to see the weather ( Read more... )

Yeesh! I've gone 9 days without making an entry! Apologies. Would you believe it's been a boring week? I've been basically up to selling a world of junk on eBay. Selling stuff on eBay takes a lot of time and materials. In fact, right now I'm out of bubble wrap. That's a problem. Ohh crap, I just sold some South Park DVDs... And I have no bubble ( Read more... )

So in my last entry, I talked about how I had spent last Tuesday and Wednesday out in the summer sun tinkering unsuccessfully with my Geo Metro (AKA Penguin). Well things seemed fine with the car on Thursday but that evening I noticed that the dashboard backlights were slowly fading out. Driving at night without dash-lights is pretty spooky. By the ( Read more... )

Whew what a week. My dad is burning his two weeks of vacation time right now. Him and my mom were originally supposed to have driven the 1,500 miles to Minneapolis to attend my aunt's wedding reception after eloping months ago. On a side note, I'm all for eloping. My sister and I caught a marathon of Bridezillas episodes on that "WE" channel and ( Read more... )

For months, it's been circled in my calendar that Friday the 19th my college buddies Matt and Cassandra were going to take me out for laser tag in Beaverton. I've been looking forward to it! It's been almost four whole years since I last played laser tag. It has been too long. We hit Laserport, which appears to be the laser tag facility of the area ( Read more... )