Monday dinner found us exploring downtown Milwaukee on a random driving tour taking us by a lovely lakefront greenspace before searching for food. No chains, and it had to be authentic. Authentic (pick your ethnicity), authentic Milwaukee, authentic whatever origins the cook has. We went to a place listed in the Stearns' Road Food guide, and ( Read more... )

Blue Fairy had an extended break for lunch today, and we managed to use it all ( Read more... )

Blue Fairy's predilection toward dragging me off on adventures to spike my curmudgeonly inertia payed off once again today. We went off in search of another entry in the Stearns' Road Food book. In this case, the Bay Bakery in Silver Springs, an upscale suburb of Milwaukee. After a few mis-directed turns, we got there, to find a pleasant little ( Read more... )

Blue Fairy has a conference in Milwaukee for the next few days, so I am accompanying her on her journey. We traveled the I-65 / I-94 dash through Chicago (ha ha) today, with a few more stops and a later start than originally planned, arriving around 8 Eastern / 7 Central ( Read more... )

Happy Birthday Dixie Yankee!

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Woot! What a wonderful wedding!

The bluemarble.net mail server, webmail, and telnet login have been down for the last 30 hours. I'm not getting any mail. Aaaaaarrrrrrgh!

Update: Back up Monday after three day outage. Hard drive controller crashed, and emails between Friday morning backup and Friday afternoon crash lost.

I don't agree with the statement, but this is quite funny.

( Not overtly naughty, but probably not work safe... )

Since I am looking for work after closing the biz and it'd be nice to claim I have mad skillz, I need to make sure I do have mad skillz.  So I've been working on an update to my old Family Circus game in Flash, mainly to refresh my memory of how to do it.  The latest version can be found here ( Read more... )