Progressive Odyssey

More photos are now up on my Flickr stream from a camping trip in Colorado with Katie's parents and a trip I made to Wichita's B...

(Part 1 here .) One of the podcasts I listen to ( Planet Money ) has lately been exploring the health insurance reform from an economics ang...

I had my first class of the semester this morning at 8am. The experience was completely unlike a year ago when I started my graduate work. ...

Since today is my last day of my summer break before classes start again and I've finally got all the computer stuff here at working the...

I don't know much about the specifics of the current discussions and debate regarding health insurance reform. Since Congress has not f...

Today I finally realized one goal I had for this summer: the sale of my scooter. In late March I replaced my scooter with a more traditiona...

Though I have not been working for the past 60 days at the request of my employer, August 7th was my last day of employment at Cessna Aircra...

Yesterday was a great day to get stuff in the mail. First up: rear baskets for my bicycle. When bicycling to school, I've been pre...

I'm guessing you've heard that over-the-air TV is digital now. They made the switch back in February until they decided to really m...

Remember the other day when I wrote about my network drive not working and that LaCie was sending me a new part to see if we could make an ...

With all our non-working time off, Katie and I have been doing some home improvement stuff. Last night Katie changed the upholstery on dini...

Over the past few weeks Katie and I took two trips: one was our "second honeymoon" (also known as "we're probably never g...

I once again have very little excuse for not being more active in my blogging. In this case, quite a bit has happened since I last wrote. ...

I've just turned in a paper for one of my classes on wind power and offshore wind farms.   Have a read if you want to see what's ke...

This week was the first evening we were woken in the middle of the night by our weather radio warning us of a severe thunderstorm in the co...

Well, I haven't got around to my "top ten" list for "This American Life" yet but I've got another clip from on...

In the same spirit as a police officer ride-along, This American Life did a piece recently where one of their contributor's got to sit ...

When I was trying to explain to one of my brothers why I haven't posted lately due to end of semester school work, he suggested that I p...

... as you can see its not a Honda Rebel.  That deal fell through for mysterious reasons that are not clear at all to me.  After not g...

On the way home Katie and I got stopped by a train.  It was the back-and-forth kind that slowly heads one direction for a few minutes, stops...