A Peculiar Blog

Ever get the admonition from your parents that “Money doesn’t grow on trees” or variations of it such as “[mistreated, expensive, and/or hard to find item] doesn’t grow on trees”? I’m reminded of that now as our household finds itself in need of a laptop or three to supplement our desktop systems with the [...]

After seeing the pictures of the Flood of ‘08 that I took recently, I’ve decided that it’s past time to retire the ancient Polaroid Digital 320 that I’m using now which is limited to 320 x 240 and no zoom, optical or digital. This thing doesn’t even have a flash, which means if [...]

It’s late I know but just the same, here’s the latest edition of my wishlist:
In no way should this be considered complete by any stretch of the imagination
Music
My favorite music these days is instrumental. For the most part I don’t have patience to try to understand lyrics anymore. All sorts from classical orchestra, [...]

Y’know when I was a kid I used to think I’d like to have a briefcase. Mind you, in my whole life I’ve had absolutely zero reason to want such a thing… unless I found myself owing a laptop.. Then I think one of those Samsonite things .. you know, the one’s that the [...]

Someday I’d like to add a router to our home network to make it easier to do things without having to mess around with Windows Internet Connection Sharing.

 
This lynksys Wireless-G router looks like it’s just perfect for the job.
 
That, along with a few lengths of 10/100 Ethernet cable would go along way to improve things. [...]

My favorite type of music is mostly instrumental. Partly because I’ve simply always liked it and partly because I have a lot harder time trying to understand lyrics these days. In the world of instumental music, I like a wide variety of things from classical orchestra, to the violin, cello, Saxaphone, Piano and [...]

Ok, since we’re into June I figured it’s time to update the wishist. So I’ve gone over previous entries and worked out a new version. Wishlist entries on this blog prior to this one can be disregarded. Also, the Amazon.com wishlist is a little more current than it was.
Note, Niether of these [...]

It took me long enough to get around to it, but i’ve finally started an
amazon.com wishlist.

The address is: http://www.amazon.com/gp/registry/wishlist/2VO7RIJX5YE6H/

…now all I need to [...]

This also includes movies I’ve seen but would still like to have the DVD.

In no particular order….

Pirates of The Carribean 2 (& 3 when it comes out)
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I suddenly realized that I had not updated this "wishlist" category
since well before Christmas ‘06 so I thought I’d take some time and make
a start on updating it. So pretty much all entries in this category
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