Pizza: Revisiting an Old Failure
My last memory of making pizza, until last week, was a vague collection of fleeting emotions of disappointment and frustration, and images of cardboard crust,...
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New Year, New Boardgame
I'll admit that 2008 started a little rough and made me realize how grateful I should be of all the wonderful family and friends in...
Stark Wine Cellar Open for Business…Sort Of
We finally got tired of seeing the mahogany wine cellar door taking up one car slot in our garage. So we got our trusty contractor…
‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’ Book Review
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Buy: Amazon Khaled Hosseini’s novel, ‘The Kite Runner’ left an unforgettable impression on me. When someone or something…
Thanksgiving Video: Sous Chef Loni Talks Turkey
Action video of Loni helping out with Thanksgiving dinner. One of these days I’ll submit a video to HGTV so Loni can be the next…
The Dust Has Cleared: Results of Our Latest Renovation
After a couple of weeks of dust and noise, we finally have our place looking back to normal. Well, better than normal. The travertine tiles…
‘Blackwater’ Book Review
As I sit here on a Sunday morning staring at my to-do list, I’ve noticed this pending item to write a review of “Blackwater: The…
We’ve Been Discovered by Stanford
Several weeks back, I got an email from Ian Hsu, Director of Internet Media Outreach at Stanford University asking if he could include our blog…
Interesting Times for High-Tech Acquisitions
It has been a hectic week in my neck of the woods and since Clint wrote the last blog entry, he likes to remind me…
Networking in the Real World
Even with all the virtual social networking sites out there and the many ways in which you can reach out and touch someone by the…