Here are the paint samples. Okay, I am sure the flash threw it off, and each monitor is different, but at least you’ll have an idea of what I’m dealing with.
Doing My Part for the Economy, the Service Industry, and Cook County
A full Saturday. First off, we had the cousins here after a sugared-up breakfast at Eros. While that was going on, Team One from Sears showed up with the new fridge and range. (Proving that nothing really goes as planned, I need to have the gas line moved so I can slide the range back …
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Another Day, or The Power of Ten Billion Butterfly Sneezes
Welcome to the new weblog! I hope this software will be less troublesome than what I was dealing with before. The old weblog will be available for a while right here, until I get around to cleaning up to get more space. I was in a meeting this morning, noticing how they had the lights …
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What’s Up
The new radio page is now live. You can get to it by hitting www.joesradiopage.com. I may do a couple updates to some of the descriptions, but it’s 99.9% ready to go. Next up is putting the pointer to the new page. I’ve been messing around with some new weblog software, but I can’t seem …
Dads
Each year, I participate as a first-round reader in an essay contest where kids write about their dads (or father figures). Most of these kids are from poorer neighborhoods, and are in first through fifth grade. This year I got a stack of papers from third-graders. Here is a bit from one of the essays …
Web Things
I’ve taken the first step towards getting more space here at www.jtl.us. My radio page is going to be moving to its own host, which makes sense since I’ve owned the domain name www.joesradiopage.com for about a year. (That domain name already forwards to the existing radio page.) The new site should be up within …
What’s Been Going On Here
Yes, I know I haven’t done anything further with the RadioBlog. It’s all a matter of finding the time, which I hope to do shortly. The next projects on tap for me are the new appliances for the kitchen (coming next week) and figuring out what I am going to do with furniture in the …
Sweatin’ To The Vampires
On Saturday, I completed the first annual Boot Camp at The Pavilion. Not only did I get to see a side of the trainers I’d never seen before, but my butt was thoroughly kicked by the time it was all over at 10:30 am. I’ve got a nice certificate hanging on my wall as proof …
Chinese New Year
I’m in the middle of reading Michael Moore’s “Dude, Where’s My Country?” and suddenly feeling a responsible member of society. Today’s lyrics (below) were written in 1992 but seem more poignant today. The kids and I saw the Chinese New Year’s parade in Chinatown on Sunday. This was the first time I’d been in Chicago’s …
MLK Day
MLK day. It’s a good time to put aside whatever comparatively petty problems we have in our lives and think about the people who struggled to actually put some good and justice in this world. We’ll all probably hear the Dion song “Abraham, Martin, and John” before the day is out, so here are a …