Someone call the Hardly Boys! After my Saturday adventures in the attic, I picked up two mouse traps from Home Depot, baited them with peanut butter, and stuck them in the attic. Monday evening there were two dead mice in the attic. I disposed of them and reset the traps. Went [...]

While out in the Boston hills yesterday getting some apples and pumpkins, we thought we might try and pick up a geocache. We didn’t find it, but we did find the newest feature in burial luxury:

Well, it certainly felt good to not have the EZPass log another toll for me on my way home today, but it certainly made for one heck of a traffic slowdown! Heading southbound at the Black Rock barrier, only the left two toll lanes remained open, which is fine because those were the two [...]

Yes, it’s true! All the Buffalo-area news sources are reporting that the I-190 tolls are no longer – and for good! The booths themselves are supposed to come down next year.
As someone who takes the 190 daily (although I only pay in one direction) this will personally save me quite a bit of [...]

Here’s something I never expected to see on a Sunday morning – a Town of Hamburg crew out picking up branches! Nice work, guys!

Maybe all it took was writing about feeling non-productive to kick myself in the pants. Maybe all it took was a strong desire to be able to fit both cars in the garage again so we don’t need to scrape ice off them in the morning anymore. Then again, it could have been [...]

I haven’t been posting much lately, and since this is the first chance I’ve had to take a lunch break this week, I decided now is a good time for a general update.
Frankly, I’m in a lull lately. There just hasn’t been much going on and that’s both good and bad. Good because [...]

Mondays are why they invented coffee, and sometimes I should have multiple cups before laying hands on the keyboard.
My supervisor is on vacation this week, so it is a particularly good time to NOT cause any major catastrophes. As I eased into the morning, I needed to take a glance at our agent log [...]

Today marks the day that Microsoft launches Internet Explorer 7 – their first major browswer update in five years. You would think that since they’ve spent so much time working on it, it would be pretty damn outstanding, right? My experience so far says no.
I ran the update this morning, which I have [...]

How pathetic it was to hear Congressman Higgins whining about FEMA like Ray Nagin. I mean, come on. The last thing we want to do is compare our little snowstorm to friggin’ Hurricane Katrina. So, we had a lot of power outages and fallen trees and some flooded basements. Hardly a [...]