I just experienced the hottest day of my life. As it also the hottest recorded day in Melbourne I would guess there are a few million in the city who can claim the same. I've been all over the world, and copped a great variety of weather conditions. Possibly the most trying weather I've experienced ...

Rigby is now part of the household and - barring a couple of very notable exceptions - is settling into home life very well. When he first arrived he was a little whiny at times, which is to be expected. He'd left his extended family and all he knew of the world behind him, and was entering a new an...

What a week. I sit here feeling myself exhausted, both physically and mentally. Right now I feel like I can hardly raise a gallop in any direction. And as I write this Rigby sits at me feet. So, last Friday week I caught a plane to Adelaide with a couple of friends. Traffic was heavy , we were runni...

Our DVR's hard drive died.  I can't watch anything, I can't record anything, and I can't pause or rewind live TV.   And they can't fix it unitl February 5! Anyone remember what Sunday night is?...

I was supposed to go out for my birthday with Heidi last night but they rescheduled Kaila’s 5th grade band concert because of last week’s cold weather. So instead of a nice dinner and a movie, I got to hear a bunch of 5th graders who just started playing their instruments 4 months ago play Three...

Finding a way to safely drive around on snow and ice needs to be based on a basic Taoist principle of the universe: everything has an opposite. Put otherwise, there's no free lunch. Both personal experience with traction devices and considerable Internet browsing on this subject has convinced me...

Is there any better catalyst for learning a lesson than blood? Yesterday was one of those days. I woke up at 3:30 AM with a low blood sugar. The Boy woke up hungry 30 minutes later. By the time I got up for good, The Boy needed to be fed again, the house [...]...

After extolling in a quasi-philosophical manner why spending money on an iPhone brings legitimate happiness, a commenter on my other blog asked me to explain why I'm so enamored of this piece of technology. Glad to oblige. Tonight I got around to recording my voice mail greeting in which I used ...

Okay, maybe, not quite… but since I did already have PHP via FastCGI and MySQL working on my Server 2008 IIS7 and because I already had WordPress running here. It only took about 5 minutes for my to copy the base WordPress folder, type in the 3 lines to create the database, then change 3 line...

Jeez, here I am, sixty years old, and only now realizing that I've had it wrong for most of my philosophically-inclined life: notwithstanding the oft-heard adage, money really can buy happiness. I know this, because I've become increasingly blissful the more dollars I send in Apple's dir...