The World Surrounding Me

We had baseball-sized hail tonight while while we were both driving home. I think the result may be that I’m looking for a new-used car sooner than previously planned. Yes, the Mazda 626 has served me well, right up until what I believe may be the end — it took the damage and kept me [...]

Matt posted this tonight elsewhere on the interwebs… Listening to SDSU’s game online. Could the Boilers and Jacks win tourney games in the same weekend? I doubt they ever have before. I’m confident that the wins the same weekend are a first, since this is SDSU’s* first year of post-season Division I eligibility. We just [...]

The electricians came today for our lighting re-do project. Here are some “in the middle” photos (you’ll see why I say that instead of “after” as you look below. This shows the kitchen ceiling after the old box was removed. This is the strangest bit of sheetrock/drywall work I’ve ever seen – it was dropped [...]

Here are additional photos from our kitchen. Read more about this in the previous post. This photo is from the breakfast/laundry area (back of the house) looking thru to the dining room. Notice more honey-oak cabinets. When Matt bought the house (about a decade ago), the walls had a faux-southwest-motif. He changed that to this [...]

I think Matt & I (both of us – but especially him, who’s lived here the longest) will celebrate tomorrow, providing the electrician we’re hired does something with this monstrosity: It’s a light fixture, built into our kitchen ceiling. The wood (we call it a cheesy ’80s honey oak finish) matches the cabinets. What we [...]

Matt & I are happy today since both of our alma mater’s basketball teams are headed to the NCAA playoffs (Purdue for men at least, I didn’t check the women) and SDSU for women. Coming from SDSU, this is probably more of a shock for me than for Matt (since Purdue is a frequent participant [...]

Today is Pi Day (3.14) and we celebrate with our friend Sally & her family with the annual “Pi Rho Festival.” We go out to a farm & fields near Granger, TX and shoot of rockets, have a pot-luck dinner, then (if Williamson County’s Burn Ban is off — as it is this year) have [...]

Check this out to learn more about the sabbatical I’m taking during parts of April & May: Becky’s sabbatical blog. I figured I’d keep the sabbatical-specific stuff there, to not clog up my regular blog. Not that I write much here or have a whole ton of readers, but well, it makes sense to me.

The news is leaking out to a few friends, family & coworkers — so I’ll let it leak out here, too. I’m going to be taking a sabbatical from work starting at the end of this month. At my work (which is our church, for those who don’t know), sabbaticals can be granted after 7 [...]