Christmas Trunk-or-Treat Christmas Fran helped me put some of our Christmas lights on the truck for the Trunk-or-Treat.
Christmas I found a large icicle This was the biggest icicle I have ever seen. And it was easily removed so I could examine it. I can find several articles claiming to be about the world's biggest icicle. At 27 foot is this the world’s biggest icicle?A 27-foot icicle photographed hanging from
Holidays Missionary Pumpkins I was going to carve Georgia into my pumpkin and sent Kari to find a map for me to trace. She came back with a better idea. So Fran and I carved a set of elders.
Food Review: Chic-fil-a autumn shake Recently a missionary told me that he was told that drinking this shake is "like being on a date with a pretty girl." I don't think it lived up to the hype. Tastes like drinking a shake with some cookies inside.
IT Fix for Apple Watch won't show up as an option to unlock your mac My new Apple Watch Ultra would not show up as an option for a watch that could automatically unlock my iMac. I tried many fixes but what eventually worked was removing old Apple Watch devices from my iCloud account. After I did that and went back into the Mac security
Food Review: Christmas Peeps I remember reading that the Peeps company was expanding into different holidays besides Easter. I tried the Gingerbread and Christmas Tree peeps. The Gingerbread peeps were really good. Instead of plain sugar on the marshmallow it tasted a bit like cinnamon and tasted like Christmas. The Christmas trees were a
Montana has a lot of license plate designs I saw these eleven just within 50 feet of a parking spot in Bozeman.
Review Review: Prana Convertible Pants Prana Convertible pants available at REI. I have two pairs of these pants and have been happy with them for about 5 years. Pros: They can switch from pants to shorts and back. The zipper mechanism for adding the pants on is easy to use. They have a built-in belt
Food Review: Bob Ross Positive Energy Drink This one actually seems worse than the fun dip. A Bob Ross canned drink. It is called a "positive energy" drink. It didn't taste particularly great. My mood was a bit positive though. But that good mood might have been because I was driving down the
Food Bear Paws for Shredding Pork These bear paws are an essential tool for shredding slow cooked pork. I have also tried some with skinnier all metal "fingers" but they don't work nearly as well.
Food Givebutter 100% Transparency At a local high school football game the snack bar had an option to pay with Apple Pay. I chose that option and scanned a QR code on my phone and was taken to a site where I then put in the total for my transaction and could check out.
Travel Business iMessages I had my first exoerience with an official business through iMessage on an iPhone with Delta. It looked nice in Messages. It showed their branding and had a different color from the usual text bubbles.
Travel GetHuman.com is a scam now GetHuman.com used to be a great site to easily find a good customer service phone number for a company. I went to it to find a number for Delta Airlines and they had two numbers shown. One for customer service and one for book a flight now. I tried
Christmas Storage Space in Odyssey Minivan The Odyssey has an incredible amount of storage space. We started transporting the Christmas lights from storage to the house this week. The 2018 Odyssey has 144.9 cubic feet of storage. A 2018 Chevy Suburban has 121 cubic feet of storage. The van really is amazing for storage when
Travel Hand Towel Art Not just for cruise ships apparently. Pineapple from Homewood Suites in Durham.
Shirts DUMB T-Shirts We get a kick out of the Duke University Marching Band going by D.U.M.B. So I made some special DUMB t-shirts for family weekend at Duke. Video i like that shows the process of silk screening with a cricut.
Music Paul Simon Turns 81 Some of my favorites. Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon | Pushkin IndustriesExperience Malcolm Gladwell’s new Paul Simon audiobook, Miracle and Wonder: Conversations with Paul Simon. This unique artistic portrait features hours of intimate conversations and music.Pushkin Industries I also love an iTunes Original album that features Paul
Christmas Light Prep 0:00/1× The four front patio trees have been trimmed in preparation for Christmas lights.
Skiing 78 Days until Ski Season Begins 78 days for me at least. And I found an excellent blog / podcast by Jackson Hogen. This article is great: On Taking What the Mountain Gives You. Americans tend to treat all athletic endeavors as metaphors for war. Our most cherished spectator sports are either grounded in a military ethos
Food Review: Bobs Ross Flavor Palette I picked this up while in line at Michael's. It seemed a little unsavory to use the deceased Bob Ross to sell a Fun-Dip ripoff. But I like Bob Ross and Fun-Dip so I gave it a try. The colors / flavors are not very creative. What about Prussian
Georgia Macon, Georgia Eddie got transferred to Macon. Atlas Obscura says Macon was the home of the Allman brothers and there is a big museum dedicated to them. The most expensive house currently for sale in Macon is $1,995,500 and is 11,892 sq feet.
Driving Flat Tire on Tesla X The passenger side rear tire on the Tesla X went flat. We had just pulled into a parking space at the Arroyo Trabuco golf course when the car said the tire was flat and to immediately pull over. We jumped out of the car to look at the tires and
Science Opposite of Sublimation I have always liked the idea of sublimation. A solid going directly to a gas and skipping the liquid phase. The obvious example is dry ice. Calvin told me about deposition this year. I never knew there was a reverse of sublimation or what its name was. The easy example
