This past weekend Jeney and I went to visit a friend in Philly – they are moving to Jersey next week and this was our last chance to see them in the city – and to have a free place to stay in Philidelphia! I had never been to Philly before, and Jeney had been […]
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Forest Frolic – Virgil, NY
This past Sunday we ran the Finger Lakes Runng Club’s “Forest Frolic” 15k trail run – what a run! To properly set the story, I need to back up 2 days. It was Friday, I had a half day off of work and was feeling pretty good. So, in my heightened spirits, I decide that […]
2012 Boilermaker – Utica, NY
This past weekend was the 35th annual Boilermaker road race. Jeney and I signed up too late (I might have procrastinated a little too long…) to run the 15k, but we did get in to the 5k. We had 3 friends that were registered for the 15k; we piled in to the 4runner and headed […]
Making Our Own Blackboard Wall
I’ve wanted to try making my own blackboard / chalkboard wall for a while now and Jeney was more than happy to help out – she likes blackboards more than whiteboards. I had read on several different blogs and various websites that the optimum recipe was 1 tbsp of unsanded tile grout per 1/2 cup […]
2012 All American 4th Of July Beerlympics Party
What do you do when you live somewhere without a big fireworks show nearby on the 4th of July? Throw a big party that involves beer and games of “skill” – all during the middle of a hot summer day! We started brainstorming ideas a month or two ago and several of us came up […]
Hell Yes!
I recently came across a neat article that reinforced something I had been thinking about and implementing over the past few months. Instead of committing to things that you would rate as a 5 or 6 on a scale of 1 to 10, try to put your time into things where you are really excited […]
Beef: locally raised!
It would be an understatement to say that we love barbecuing, and we decided a year ago to try locally-raised, hormone-free organic beef. The cow we get our steaks from lived about five miles away from us on a large farm, was raised off of grass grown around our town, and was not fed any nasty antibiotics or […]
Om Nom Pot Roast Recipe
In our order of farm-raised beef, we got a “beef top round roast” chunk of meat. I’m not very experienced with “top round” roasts, and don’t have a big stockpile of mouth-watering recipes for it either…. so I took to the internet! I found this gem: Slow Cooker Tender and Yummy Round Roast I’m (at […]
Proactive Learning
Something that I’ve had to learn is how to allocate my time while at work. There are of course times when I don’t have enough hours in the day to get things done, but I generally find that I am able to keep up at work and have some time leftover. What I dislike about […]
Huge calipers!
This made my Friday morning. I walked into work and needed to measure a lens. Next thing I know, one of the other engineers pulls these out of a closet! Of course we have a 5ft long caliper! I actually started laughing when I saw these, it made me think of oversized carnival toys. That […]