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Come on Baby, Light My Fire (or “My Wife is Making Wine Bottle Torches”)

eric — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 19:08:51 +0000

My wife is making tiki torches made from wine bottles and selling them on Etsy. Check out her wine bottle tiki torch!

Construction Specifier

admin — Thu, 08 Apr 2004 04:00:00 +0000

My father wrote an article for The Construction Specifier magazine. He’s become the expert on damage to roofs caused by hail.

New Hobby

admin — Mon, 05 Jan 2004 05:00:00 +0000

As if I needed another, I’ve (and the rest of the family) have picked up a new hobby: Geocaching. If you have a GPS (preferably handheld), I’m sure you’ve heard of it. The website lists loads of “Caches”. We like t call them “Treasure Chests” or other more interesting terms since we have a 3 year old. Anyway, the website lists the latitde and longitude of tons of these things. In over 180 countries. So I got a GPS for the laptop for christmas from my parents, so for the first few caches we lugged the laptop around the woods, which was very hard to do. So we came in contact with “KyVoayger” who has setup quite a few caches in the area and he was selling a Garmin eTrex Legend handheld GPS. Now this game is really fun! So the point is, if you have a GPS, go Geocaching!!

Ever tried to find an ATM?

admin — Mon, 10 Jun 2002 04:00:00 +0000

We decided to take the kids to an amusement park this weekend. Upon leaving the house, the wife brought up the fact that we had no cash. We’d definitely need some of that.

Of course, we were already getting onto the highway.

I didn’t think (and this is where the problem started) that it would be too much trouble to find an ATM machine from one of my two banks somewhere downtown.

I was terribly wrong.

Have you ever tried to find an ATM by simply driving around looking for bank signs? It’s not possible. I’m quite sure that all of the signs for my banks were removed by someone, right as I was coming close to them, so that I wouldn’t notice the banks.

We drove around for an hour, like lost puppies.

We ended up back close to our end of town, where we knew a bank was. While sitting at the ATM, by wife pulls out a “travel” phonebook. It has a listing of all the bank locations in it.

I didn’t burst into flames (that was the first miracle).

What had happened was interesting. Apparently we had driven right by at least 3 ATM locations.

We finally made it to the amusement park, somewhere around an hour and a half after we left the house (that is the second miracle).

Take your kids to the local amusement park, but check to make sure you have money before you leave the house. Trust me on this.