Category Archives: Home Svelte Home

Set a Course for Cyberspace, Maximum Warp

When we signed up for FiOS, Verizon promised three free months of movie channels, but they charged us anyway. Not that I’m surprised- shenanigans like that are practically the norm, particularly in the service delivery industry. What DID surprise me was 1) how quickly they figured out they had mischarged us, and 2) their offering [...]

Kickball and Website Upgrades

You’re right, kickball doesn’t have anything at all to do with upgrading my website. Except, of course, if creating a website for my WAKA League has prevented me from updating my personal website. Ha! Didn’t see that coming, did you? At home I’m in the process of upgrading my PC from Ubuntu 7.10 to Ubuntu [...]

Busy Weekend

This’ll be a quick post, in an attempt to summarize my harried weekend. On Friday I got invited to join a WAKA Kickball League in DC. We played Saturday on the National Mall not far from the Monument. For a guy that lives in the DC Metropolitan area but doesn’t visit DC much, it was [...]

Journal Maintenance and Gourmet Food

I’m taking JK’s Journal down for 30 minutes of maintenance to fiddle with the layout. Oh, and we cleaned out the frig tonight and made a meal with what we could. Introducing… (drum roll, please)… Cheeseburger-Dogs! What, you didn’t fall for the ‘gourmet food’ bit, did you?