Being away from home is difficult. I'm away from Sally and the boys; I'm traveling a lot; work is different, challenging, and stressful; and I'm on my own. It's taken me a while to figure out how to function in this new situation and one of the ways I've learned to cope is through music. …
Farewell to the Queen Mary
I visited the Queen Mary for the first time in December. It was the first time I travelled to anything outside of walking distance from my hotel while in LA. I rented a car for the weekend and drove out to Long Beach to see one of the most famous ocean liners in the world, …
Heading Back After the Holidays
Tomorrow evening I leave for California once again. The last day is always the hardest. My bags are packed and the timer begins; it's just a matter of counting down the minutes until I have to leave. I've been fortunate to have had an extended stay home for the holidays. I left two weeks ago …
The Force Awakens & Rediscovering Star Wars
Sally and I saw The Force Awakens on Sunday and we really liked it. For a movie whose job is to both reboot and continue one of the most successful and beloved franchises in history it does a fine job. While the story line contains similarities in structure to A New Hope and has its fair share …
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Heading Home
Well it's been about two weeks since I arrived in California and now it's time to head home for a couple days. I'll be leaving tomorrow afternoon and should be home around 2 AM Saturday after adding on a 3 hour time difference, 1 hour bus wait, and 2 hour bus ride. I'm staying for …
LA: The First Week
I've been in LA for a week now it's been a bit of a rollercoaster. My flight out was delayed by about 40 minutes because the crew was trying to find a flight path out of the strong jet stream to save time. Unfortunately there was no alternate route and we wouldn't have enough fuel to make …
Shaking Things Up
In a week I will embark on a new adventure in my life: I'm going to fly out to California for six months to work at a startup. That's right, I'm going to leave my family to live across the country and work at an entirely different company until February or April. I'm not quitting …
LED Paradise
Every so many years we have upgraded the lighting in our house. The first time was soon after we moved in. We swapped all of our incandescent lamp bulbs for CFLs because the prices had finally come down enough to justify them. They used less than a third of the power of the equivalent incandescent …
My SLI Saga
I bought a customized Gaming PC so that I could expand it in the future. Most importantly, I wanted to swap out the graphics card for a newer model in a few years when mine started to struggle. I also wanted the option to combine multiple graphics cards together. This is called SLI (or Crossfire …
Far Cry 4
Since I published my first impressions of several of the games that I played over holiday vacation I started playing another that needs to be added to the list: Far Cry 4. Far Cry 4 is the newest game that I own, having been released in November. I didn't get it from Steam; instead it …
Relatively Ambitious 