You know, it’s not very often that I’m really, truly surprised by weather and its power. Today was one of those days, however. You see, we had what seemed to be like hurricane-force winds pretty much from the time I wrote the last post (last night before midnight in which I wrote about the grill…

It never really ceases to amaze me how the weather in Minnesota can be. For that matter, the weather anywhere, but I happen to live in Minnesota so I choose to pick on it. We’ve had a really dreary day again today. It’s rained off-and-on throughout the day, but been overcast and very windy throughout…

So I never would have expected the day to turn out quite the way it did today. For starters, I arrived at work to discover that the power to our building (and a good portion of the West side of the block) was out. And had been for about an hour and a half (at…

Well, I can honestly say that I’ve not had as productive a Saturday as this in a long time. I certainly can’t remember the last time I was this productive (in that I actually accomplished the tasks I set out on Friday’s list) on a Saturday. It usually seems as though I end up taking…

There are times when the day just doesn’t seem like it’s going to end. I ran into that several times today. I think today it was from information overload and the need to do a bit of catching up. Regardless, it made for a work day that seemingly dragged on. By the time I got…

Well, I should just get used to it — Mondays never really go the way one would anticipate. First off, I quite frankly wasn’t in the mood to do the work thing today when I got there. I just wasn’t. But, I found myself of a slightly different opinion an hour after I got there…

So we got back home around 9pm tonight, after a very long weekend. It was Kirstin’s first trip to see Grandpa & Grandma Lorenz, and they live about four and a half hours from us. She did very well in the car both ways (for that long a trip), but that length of travel tends…

I managed to get many things accomplished today, which was a welcome Good Thing. Several miscellaneous things at work are now off the plate (always nice). I got home and worked on a few various things, but most importantly was the chipping away at some of the thank you cards for all of Kirstin’s happenings…

So the MiniDV tapes arrived today. That means I could actually start using the camcorder to make movies. It’s been kinda fun to play around with it a bit (even Beth did it), but I’ve yet to really do any video that’s truly worthwhile to keep or put on DVD. This is experiment time. 🙂…

So I got home tonight, and amongst other things (the fact that I got to hang around with my girls), the video camera had arrived today as expected! Hooray! I haven’t had much time to play around with it (especially since the miniDV tapes won’t be here until tomorrow, so I couldn’t record anything tonight),…