Progressive Odyssey

The river that runs through Wichita is frozen over in some places, including the area right near our place. I was out this Saturday morning...

This afternoon our non-existant child received a box of eight books from Scholastic. We have no idea how or why we were blessed with this d...

This past month, much to my surprise, the Wichita city council ruled against a re-zoning request that would have allowed Wal-Mart to build a...

New pictures from Christmas break have been uploaded to Flckr. Enjoy!

This second audit turned out to be MUCH simpler than the first. To prepare for this audit, I used the same procedure as last time: -Assem...

In the words of the National Weather Service, Wichita has been experiencing a "wintery mix" of precipitation this weekend. As a v...

At my brother's request, I measured the power consumption of my computer during start-up. As I kind of guessed, power usage is relativ...

I got my first flat tire on my scooter this morning. I don't think that flat was there when I started but coming around a corner not fa...

This Christmas, I requested and received something that many of you will find highly nerdy and not all that interesting: an electrical power...

Our mail was on hold while we were out on Christmas break and, due to Gerald Ford's death, we didn't get our mail until Wednesday. ...

My wife borrowed a copy of Close Encounters of the Third Kind over Thanksgiving and we watched it the other night. I know it was quite pop...

Our Thanksgiving Travel: Wednesday Night: Wichita, KS to Enid, OK Thursday Night: Enid, OK to Mutual, OK Friday Afternoon: Mutual, OK to Hit...

As a follow-up to my previous post, it should be noted that the jet has sold. UPDATE: Sorry for the bad link; it's fixed now.

For Halloween, Katie and I got a pumpkin. We didn't end up carving it or really doing much of anything with it other than set it out on...

At the request of a friend, I have fired up a Flickr account. No promises on how often I'll be adding to it so enjoy it for what it is....

Oh, yeah. Before I forget, voting on Tuesday was pretty smooth in our district. We had those electronic voting machines which are all the ...

Yesterday I spent most of my afternoon hunting down two mystery noises on my scooter. In the process of doing so, I ended up removing most ...

(Truly this is the nadir of this blog: the classic small-talk that is weather.) The leaves are turning, the days are noticeably shorter, the...

Last week gas was $1.979/gal. here in Wichita. Under $2/gal. I never thought I'd see that price again in my lifetime. And like a dream, ...

My scooter had it's first significant failure: the turn signals started not blinking. Some of the time. I hate "random" fail...