Progressive Odyssey

I had a bit of free time on my hands and accidentally discovered Blogger's easy to use site designer and with a little bit of fiddling, ...

Katie got this little container for holding plastic bags from Wal-Mart yesterday. We hang onto our plastic bags for dog-related purposes an...

Both our dogs are English Springer Spaniels , a breed whose original purpose was to help in hunting water fowl. Its not surprising then, th...

This past spring, in an attempt to save ourselves some money, hassle, and discomfort, we decided to purchase and install an attic fan. Kati...

Our friends were making a move this last Wednesday and I volunteered to help them out. I have no classes during the summer leaving my sched...

June 5th 2009 was the day I was laid off at Cessna. That morning I was told by my supervisor that I was being let go and after that day I ...

Last night Anise had a brief night on the town. I had left the door between our garage and the backyard open as well as the garage door to ...

I just got back yesterday from a conference at Washington State Universi ty in Pullman, WA . Wichita State is part of a university/industry...

After talking with a good friend the other night I got inspired to look into upgrading our old version (2005) of Quicken to the newly re-des...

Today started out pretty normal for me. Katie was going to bike home after work so I drove her and her bike there this morning before retur...

A few highlights from my bike ride to and from school today: A squirrel that had managed to abscond an entire doughnut from who knows where....

(A warning to all my non-engineering friends: this is a highly nerdy post.) A few years ago I received as a gift a wonderfully nerdy item fo...

Our helpful weather radio just went off and alerted us to a severe thunderstorm warning for our county. This is the first warning of the th...

Hopefully all you US residents have your taxes done and mailed in. I happen to live in Kansas right now and the state has figured out that ...

An acquaintance of mine recently postulated a theory to me: Taco Bell's recent introduction of the Shrimp Taco (which he declared disgu...

I found out about OK Go's third video from a podcast I listen to which I would safely describe as not being on the pulse of pop culture ...

My wife and I are up in Kansas City for a early mini-anniversary weekend. Here's a little trip update. The weather was wonderful y...

This is what nerds like me do when they need to take a break from reading and homework. I've been wanting to put together this animati...

I remember back in my undergrad days at LeTourneau frequently hearing from the head of the engineering department how employers today were l...

Yes, the key does turn when the car is in motion; I saw it the other day.