It's been a while since I posted. Let me fill you in on what's happened since last time ( Read more... )

Moving day is tomorrow! We've been busy staying up late to pack after work and the family has been most helpful with helping get the place clean and ready to contain its future contents. If you're not up to anything tomorrow, we'd appreciate any help you'd like to offer in the way of carrying things around (and helping us eat the donuts and taco ( Read more... )

So, we just got back from signing a bunch of loan paperwork for the house we'll be purchasing. And I've discovered that my signature is severely handicapped when I am forced to sign my full middle name. It probably takes me as long to sign the last 8 letters of my middle name than it does to sign the whole rest of my name and write a short ( Read more... )

We're putting an offer on a house over lunch today...omg

We had quite a holiday season. We kicked things off with Christmas at Grandma's, Hambleton-Parents, Overton-Parents (on consecutive days) and then took the train down to Washington, MO to see Mel's grandparents and other family. We had a good time there at the farm, I met a few more of her relatives (still a long way to go, of course) and we ( Read more... )

I was looking into getting my NES and SNES systems replaced (they've been on the fritz lately) and I stumbled across a system called the FC Twin. It reports that it plays games from both systems using SNES controllers. I've only found a few reports, but they say that it works well, playing SNES games flawlessly and coming very close on NES games ( Read more... )

Dear Robbie ( Read more... )

So Friday night we headed out to Lawrence to have dinner with Mel's old roommates (and hear teaching stories) and to go to the first KU Wind Ensemble concert of the year. They did a bang-up job, and we really enjoyed all the pieces, but particularly "George Washington Bridge" and the Wind Band transcription of "The Sunken Cathedral". Very nice. ( Read more... )

I made it. It took almost 2 months to hear from the jerks (which is annoying since the test was a scantron test, and a moron could "grade" about a million of them and still be done before lunch) but I heard from the CFP people and I passed my board exam! So now I have the coursework done, I've passed the exam, and all I have to do is be in the ( Read more... )

What a day! We played some SERIOUS crumpets today. It was very rainy, and very muddy, and very awesome. 3 hours of running about in the rain (I'm proud to report that I never went down in the mud once. Although I wouldn't have reported that on the field, as someone would have almost certainly brought me down). Christine got the muddiest person ( Read more... )