Marshfield

magnificent morning

October 11, 2007

I really wish I had my camera with me to capture it while dropping off my daughter to school this morning, but maybe a thousand words (or less) will suffice. The morning had been overcast, but just as I was dropping off Mini Otaku, the cloud cover in the east broke and the sun beamed [...]

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Falling

September 20, 2007

the trees have started to turn in Marshfield: After 9 years in Houston, I’d almost forgotten how wondrous this is. Prior to that I’d spent two glorious years in New England, so it really was from one extreme to the other. I can’t wait for full-blown Fall to arrive in all its orange, red and [...]

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yeeeargh!

August 20, 2007

For the latest in Hurricane Dean coverage, Eric Berger’s SciGuy blog at the Houston Chronicle is basically, ahem, the eye of the storm. The latest update puts landfall down in the Yucatan peninsula, meaning that there’s not much threat to Texas. Steven observed that I should be rather glad to have moved from Texas to [...]

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back to Netflix

July 24, 2007

Back in Houston we ended up using Blockbuster’s movie rental service after trying out NetFlix, because Blockbuster offered such amazing value. The advantage of being able to drop off movies to the store – and to get a free store rental – just blew Netflix away. However, here in Marshfield, there isn’t a Blockbuster within [...]

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road trip!

July 11, 2007

Can’t take government services for granted: driving to Wisconsin Rapids to get a SSN card for the baby today. Will be an adventure in patience. UPDATE: back. pretty easy jaunt, about 36 miles and 45 minutes each way. For perspective, that’s like driving from Dickinson to Houston and back. Except this was almost entirely on [...]

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Mr. Otaku’s Wild Ride

June 28, 2007

One 26 foot truck with trailer, four days, 1660+ miles, 197 gallons of diesel fuel, and 8.9 miles per gallon (est. highway). Kind of speaks for itself, no? well, so too does this (look closely). Here’s the detailed itinerary via Google (at zipcode resolution only, so its not 100% accurate on the side-street level). It [...]

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