Acerbic Resonance

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Month: July 2008

  • Fire is Just The Pits!

    A few weeks ago, my brother in law and I built a fire pit in our backyard.  I’ve been waiting since the concrete finished curing to have the gub’ment tell me I would not cause anyone to come down with emphysema by having a fire in my backyard. Today was finally the day. We toasted marshmallows and…

  • UIPickerView SDK Permutations

    I have recently begun to learn to develop applications for the iPhone.  This means I’m getting my head back into Objective-C (where it’s not been for several years – ever since I stopped writing WebObjects code) and learning all the cocoa frameworks and specialized SDK for the iPhone. For a project I’m working on, we…

  • Lines of Power

    All growing up we had “common ground” that ran through some areas of our neighborhood.  As an adult, I now realize that this is where the power lines went through the neighborhood, and city zoning would not permit land developers to build right under the lines.  Driving past this area today, I was struck by…

  • Moving Mom Pictures

    Ever since my father passed away several years ago, my mom has been trying to figure out where she should live – stay in St. Louis, move to Salt Lake where some of her kids live, move to Idaho, where other kids live, move somewhere completely different, etc. Well, she finally bought a house in…

  • Ted Drewes

    I’m in St. Louis right now to help with moving my mom to Boise.  We hired some good folks from Labor Ready today to come help clean out the house, and as a result found ourselves ahead of schedule this afternoon. So we took time to catch a movie (saw Get Smart – good fun…

  • Zy-Uhn

    My wife and I just took a vacation down to Cedar City for the Shakespeare festival, followed by a full day to play in Zion National Park.  While the Shakespeare festival was a bit underwhelming (we saw “The Taming of the Shrew” and “The School For Wives”) our day in Zion Park was fantastic. We…

  • 2 Liters Of The Good Stuff

    My wife’s family came to visit us for the 4th of July.  After they arrived and got settled in, we began to think about what we had been up to.  My father in law mentioned that he and his son (with his church youth group) had spent the previous evening building rockets out of soda…

  • Résumé or not to Resume

    I don’t know what my problem is, but I really don’t like to dust off my résumé.  I know that from time to time it is a good idea to pull it out and brush it up, but each time I think about it my first reaction is a stout “meh…” accompanied by a shoulder…