Progressive Odyssey

I'm a bit behind with, well, life right now; here's pictures from our trip a few weeks ago to Palouse Falls .  Don't say eastern...

Spring has arrived and we've begun redoing the landscaping in our front yard.  We actually started late last fall with the purchase of a...

In an attempt to stay on-top of our regular house-hold duties and the growing pile of house-hold projects, Katie and I recently purchased a ...

You know those cheap doors that you get at Lowe's and Home Depot, the ones that cost around $60?  We replaced two of those in our house ...

In late January I took my first trip to DC, one of many that I suspect my new job will have me doing.  It was my first time in the Capital a...

For our first Christmas in Washington, we purchased a real, live Christmas tree.  My wife loved it; it looked and smelled great, making our ...

Its close to a year after I started writing about it and now that my case is settled and I have a tiny bit of free time, I've decided I...

A year ago today I was hit by a car while riding into school on my motorcycle.  Today, I can walk and though there is pain in every step, m...

When the mover's had completed their job, our house was virtually empty with only the items we ourselves were taking in our car remainin...

Today I successfully defended my PhD dissertation defense.  Except for some administrative paperwork, I have matriculated here at Wichita St...

We've needed to replace our stall shower door handle since we bought this house.  It has been broken and corroded; barely functional and...

In my dabbling in hobby electronics, my primary power supply is the one that I built in my third semester of my undergraduate education. ...

I've finally been able to integrate the two halves of my code: ( differential equation solver and the LED light updater ) and I'm ha...

With the solution of the Lorenz system in place , the next task was to figure out how to define the color state for each of the 50 LEDs I...