Archive for the ‘Rantings’ Category

Bring on March!

Okay, so March is already here. Sue me!
This month will prove to be a rather busy one for me. This month I turn 30, I have to submit my application the United States Citizen and Immigration Service (USCIS) to have the conditional status removed from my Permanent Residence Visa, I will travelling to [...]

Ah, the first snow of the season

Seeing as I’m originally from a slightly more temperate region of the globe, waking up to find a fresh blanket of snow on the lawn is still both very strange and very exciting. I love that you go to bed seeing what would ordinarily be out your window and wake in the morning to a [...]

Home, Sweet home. Sort of.

This last weekend has been a busy one for us. We found out on Saturday afternoon that the tenants of the house we were wanting to move in to, which incidently belongs to my mother-in-law, would be completely moved out by the end of that day, meaning we could start moving stuff in on Sunday.

A virtualized development environment

For quite sometime now, I’ve been developing all the projects I’ve been working on directly on my machine. This is handy for a number of reasons, the most important of those reasons being that I don’t have to be online while I’m working and I don’t have to upload to any servers.

Job interview update

On Tuesday, October 6, 2009, we traveled to Lexington, KY for a couple of job interviews, including one for Bankers Life and Casualty Company.
Just a week before, 24 hours after posting my resume to CareerBuilder.com, I was contacted by someone from Bankers saying they had reviewed my resume, were very impressed and invited me to [...]

A stabbing in Madison County, KY

On Thursday, October 8, 2009 at about 12.15pm EST, Stevie Christopher “Christopher” Caldwell, the eldest child of Jaime and Stevie David Caldwell was stabbed in a Home Economics class at Madison Central High School. This story has made state wide headlines for the last two days straight. At the last time of reporting, he was [...]

Latest updates: Job and home

This month has been a rather eventful month, to say the least. Having said that, the last five or six days (Saturday, 26 September – Wednesday, 30 September) have made up the bulk of said “events.”

Lilyana and the Emergency Room

Okay, before anybody gets too worked, let me explain the title a little.  For the past three days, Lily has been running a fever. However, she had maintained a steady temperature of around 101° F (38° C). At about 6pm last night, after waking from an afternoon nap, we took her temperature and discovered that [...]

New bowling gear

As mentioned in a previous blog, my wife and I recently purchased and fitted some a couple of new bowling balls. My wife got a 14lb Hammer Jigsaw, which is the latest ball from Hammer. Meanwhile, I purchased a 15lb Brunswick Siege, the latest ball from Brunswick. We were gonna take our balls to the [...]

From the mouths of babes

It’s funny that we often laugh at the things children say. We laugh because a lot of the time, the things children say are either way out of context or are just plain hilarious. Listening to a child explain the wonders of Christmas to us, or even having them explaining the meaning of life can [...]