Ewan's own Netflix Queue
More and more Ewan has been wanting to choose his own movies to watch. He's no longer content watching the girly stuff his older sister watches or the older stuff his brother watches. Often Aspen would take Ewan to her own Netflix queue and help him pick out movies and then add them to her queue for him; however, when Ewan was gone she would either move them to the bottom of her list or remove them entirely so that they would not supersede her own movie selections.So we setup Ewan with his own Netflix queue and today he got his first movie, Buzz Lightyear of Star Command. Enid tells me that "you've never seen a child so happy as when he got his own movie in the mail."
posted on Monday, February 01, 2010
Looking for a Road Bike
My new company participates in the Kansas City Corporate Challenge and I began thinking about competing in the Bicycle Road Race; however, when I saw last years results, I realized that the best in this competition are keeping a steady pace of 30 MPH on the 2.5 mile course. I'm going to need a better bike if I'm going to be even in the middle of the pack in this race. (There's not really a pack because it's a time trial event, so they space the racers out by 30 seconds.)I also found out that my boss's boss, Phil, usually wins this race in under 5 minutes. He's also bike the entire Katy Trail... all 224 miles of it... in one day!
So I decided to look for a new bike. The main thing that I will need is a lighter bike. I may be able to sustain speeds of 20-25 MPH on lighter bike. So I'm on he search for an entry-level aluminum road bike. I searched several places and the prices range from $650-800 for the entry-level bikes. One place I went was Trek because they are made here in America at Madison Wisconson. (Interesting that I use that as a criteria for buying a bike, but not a car.) The guy was very helpful and said that he doesn't even like selling their entry-level bikes because the components are not very good.
So after not finding a bike in my price range, I've got my RSS reader watching Craigslist for a bike that meets my criteria.
Labels: biking
posted on Saturday, January 30, 2010
Enid's Photo on Salina Journal Website
Enid's dad submitted a picture that she had taken of their dog to the Salina Journal and they put it on their website.Labels: Enid, photography
posted on Thursday, January 28, 2010
Enid on The Pioneer Woman, Again
Enid's photo (above) was featured on The Pioneer Woman's site.
Labels: Enid, photography
posted on Wednesday, January 20, 2010
The Day I Would Have Been Paid
One of the interesting parts of my new job is that instead of getting paid twice a month, like at my old job, I will get paid once a month. Today would have been a pay day for me, but we are stretching our dollars to last to the end of the month. We've been planning for this since the last couple of weeks of December, so we're prepared, but I look forward to seeing that first check.I do like the idea of paying all my bills for the entire month on the first day of the month and then not worrying about them for the whole month.
Labels: finances
posted on Friday, January 15, 2010
