House of Dirty Opportunity

February 4, 2010 · 0 comments

I’ve been tossing around the idea of buying a house with my husband but we hadn’t even begun looking. Then while casually checking out listings, I found a house that met our base requirements. While our requirements are mostly easy to match in Huntsville, the difficult part to meet is our price limit versus house [...]

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Fun No-Kids Dinner

January 24, 2010

So the commercials for tasty 8oz slabs of meat from various restaurants has got to my husband and he decided we needed to go out for dinner together, minus the kids. Fortunately, my MIL lives nearby and loves to take the kids, so off we went for our second-ever visit to Logan’s Roadhouse.
First off, Logan’s [...]

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Where’s the Tornado?

January 22, 2010

Nevermind this being January and snow not that long past, the weather yesterday was warm, breezy, and humid, complemented by the sound of a tornado siren in the evening. Interestingly, the sky above my home was mostly clear. There were dark clouds to the north and occasionally half the sky would fill with clouds, but [...]

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Close Look at Alabama Snow

January 7, 2010

While northern Alabama does sometimes get snow, it rarely sticks, much less piles up more than half an inch. Today though, there was approximately two inch of very white fluff hanging out, and having gotten a chance to not have the kids demanding attention, ran outside with my new Fuji camera. I played around with [...]

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Things I Have Learned from MMORPGs

March 18, 2008

While there have been questionable events involving kids and online community games, to be honest, there is a brighter side. Experienced players don’t hang themselves because they couldn’t get some “uber 1337″ item, instead, they often can apply concepts learned in an online fantasy environment to improving their offline experiences – and there’s little way to [...]

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