As the title says, I've been fairly busy lately. I actually feel a bit guilty that 4/5 of the articles on my front page have to do with fantasy sports updates! That's just terrible, considering I post them about once a week. I have had plenty to write about. Just haven't. I had duty over the weekend. I had planned on posting then, but when I got in the mood to type, my driver was trying to sleep and I didn't want the clickity-clak to be annoying, so I just read some stuff and commente...

just a test to see if i can post to my site from the forums.

My wife woke up a little late for work today. I got up with her and when I asked if there was anything I could do to help her out, she asked me to make coffee and drive her to work. I said OK and headed for the kitchen. Once the coffee was ready, I got one of the car mugs and poured her some coffee. I then looked for the cream and sugar. I don't put any of this stuff in my coffee, so I don't know where it all is sometimes. I found the creamer next to the coffee can in the cupboard and...

I was checking out my referrals for Ironforge is not a safe city! . I got a bunch of referrals from totalgaming.net and society gaming, which I thought was pretty cool. But the referal I got that really surprised me was from the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) . I figure it has to do with the use of the word irradiated in my original post, but I can't figure how even that makes sense. Oh, well, it's better than all the referals I got for "peeing in a cup"! ...

I bought my tickets for the vacation on CheapTickets.com. It was a last minute thing and I was able to get a decent deal there. There were two problems with that course of action, though. The first was that I flew four different airlines and none of them were United (with whom I have a frequent flyer account). That wasn't really a big deal to me, but I would have liked to rack up a few miles. The second was that my entire trip home was on America West. These guys were built for chea...

So, I was a week late for the actual reunion. I was still lucky because two of my friends were still able to make time to visit with me. We went to the same restaurant/pub that they had the original reunion at. I got there just minutes ahead of them and circled the place for parking. There didn't seem to be an actual lot for the place, but there was an empty lot across the street, so I parked there. Just as I got to the front door of the place, both of my friends pulled up and honked to ...

So, last Thursday, after resting a few hours and visiting with my mom for a bit, I got into the rental car and drove down to my dad's house. It was about a four hour drive down. When I rented the car, I told them that I wouldn't leave Ohio. This became a bit of a problem because I forgot that I-77 runs into West Virginia a little north of Belpre, OH and that was the way I had directions to go. So, I had to stop in a rest area and figure out what road would connect me from I-77 and Mariett...

I didn't have access to the net for a lot of my vacation. Well, I did, really. I just didn't want to spend too much time glued to a chair in front of a monitor when I could have been visiting with friends and family. So, now I get to play catch up and hopefully my memory holds! This little trip was kind of last moment and as I detailed before, I got the dates messed up. Since it was last minute, my wife couldn't rearrange her schedule to take me to the airport. So, on Tuesday, a buddy...

So, a while back I posted about online reunion/alumni services. You can read it here - Online Friend and Alumni Finder Services . One of the things I wrote about was an impending 20 year reunion with the friends I'd attended grade school with. We all went to a Catholic school and had been together from 1st through 8th grades. There was interest in getting together, so some of my old friends went to the trouble to set this up. They contacted a bunch of people, sent out invites, and ...

We'll be getting our new input of students tomorrow. I'm really looking forward to it. We're conducting an experiment here at DLI and I'm going to be one of the MLIs that gets to participate. Some of the other schools have already started this program, but this will be the first time we try it out in the Korean school. Instead of our normal input of 30 students per class on day one, we're going to start with only 12 (maybe less). Also, instead of breaking them up into three sections of...

Just got my hands on the memory card for the camera and looked over the pictures from the Army Ball. There were some really nice ones of my wife but most of the ones of the two of us together didn't turn out so well (insert joke about me here). Either the camera was moving or the lighting was bad! Oh, well, we did get a photo package done, so hopefully those will turn out nice. Also, hopefully I'll get some pics via email from some of the others at our table. I'll post more if I get dece...

Stopped at the new Chili's in Seaside on the way home from work today for some take out. My wife wanted the Triple Play Combo and I got the Monterey Chicken (thought about calling it the Seaside Chicken since the Chili's is in Seaside, not Monterey) for myself. When they gave me the total, I had to ask if they had it right. Turns out, Chili's gives a 50% discount to military members in uniform! 50%! That's right, I said 50%! How cool is that? I'll tell you how cool it is. It's super...

As I posted last week, I attended the Army Birthday Ball on Friday. It was a few days early, but also as I stated before, the Army is old and doesn't like to party on a weekday, just like me. Well, not just like me, the Army is 230 years old, I'm only 34. But still, we both prefer to celebrate on a weekend rather than a work night. I was surprised by the number of people there. There were over 50 tables, each with 10 people seated. I was also very surprised by the number of junior enl...

My wife and I are going to the Army Birthday Ball tonight. It's a little early, but the Army is is old and just like a person, it doesn't really want to celebrate on a weekday. It'd rather do it's partying on the weekend! This will be my first ball after nearly 13 years of service. Never had the desire to go before, really. In fact, I'm only going out of some minimal peer pressure. HAHA! But I am a lifer, so I guess I should start doing this sort of thing more often. I am looking ...

Spending a few days in a team building workshop with the teachers I'll be working with when we get our new students in a few weeks. We recently rearranged the entire department in preparation for the new class. The new class is going to have to meet much higher standards at the end of the course, but we are also making changes to set ourselves up for success. The new standards are going to include covering all of our course materials in 2/3 the time. We'll spend the entire third semeste...