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OK not completely… but let me tell you, I was pretty pleased with myself after I installed the speed sensor in the Jeep today.  To make it sound more impressive.. this is a part in the transmission!  To make it sound more realistic (and not impressive) its really a part *on* the transmission.  Like changing… Continue reading »

Well, Nathan’s birthday is a reminder that I’m getting a year older also.  Having a birthday the day after your son’s is a neat thing.  I didn’t have much on my list really.  Two or three “gadgets” – a flight calculator, a new digital amp or another video camera.  I went with the camera.  I… Continue reading »

Every since I fell in the Kenduskeag in freezing cold water (three times now), I’ve had some trepidation when I walk over the foot bridge to work each day. Especially when the water is moving and has ice floating in it.  We received a pile of rain this week and the stream burst over the… Continue reading »

Wow.. how the years have flown.  Nathan turned ten today.  As is tradition with many Mainers (though a vanishing tradition no doubt), turning ten is a right of passage in Maine.  It begins your privilege to hunt.  We’re not much for hunting, but target shooting is a fun challenge so I bought Nathan his first… Continue reading »

All too soon.. it was time to get new tires for the car.  That rolls around all too often with a Ford Focus ZX5.  They chop the tires right off the back end.  Thankfully, this time with significant amounts of persuasion, they pro-rate the tire to match the mileage warranty.  In this case… 50,000 miles. … Continue reading »

Nathan had a school event tonight.  A Pirate Party thing.  Games, food, etc. He had a great time and we were able to get a dinner date in.  Thankfully… he waited until the end, when they were cleaning up, to get hit by an inflatable tree and have a gusher of a nose bleed. The… Continue reading »

It is possible!  To go out to a restaurant, with friends and have mostly uninterrupted adult conversation. We had the chance to visit with friends and share a meal together in Brewer tonight.  Nathan had a school event that he wanted to attend so we jumped at the chance to have a couples date. We… Continue reading »

Sledding is underway at the Libby Luge!  We had a test run before the last snowstorm and it was hard, icy and fast.  Too hard, too icy and too fast.  The latest storm helped that out. We hit the slope and had a great time and no one ended up getting hurt… that bad.  Video… Continue reading »

Nathan is back at it.  A couple of years ago Nathan was taking piano lessons through school on the urging of his mother.  Jess plays herself, she’d like Nathan to learn piano and music theory so if he wanted to play some other instrument, it would come easier to him. Recently, he practically signed himself… Continue reading »