If any of you have kept up with me, you know I’ve moved a couple of times recently. I was lucky and my first apartment choice in Austin, TX was exceptional. However, when I recently moved to Dallas, I was in a hurry. Never one to do things in the correct order, I took a new job before I had a place to live and living in a Motel 6 gets really old really quickly. Unfortunately, I was not as fortunate with my...

in my “what to exclude” article, i mentioned that our two single strollers had to be replaced when our 2nd baby came along last summer. initially, we bought an evenflo tandem stroller. at the time the “exclude” article was written, i was happy with said stroller, but it didn’t take long for that to change. i’ll put it this way. if you have twins or two children small enough...

Expectant mothers, especially first-timers, have much to think about. There’s so much planning to do that you may not know where to begin! You’ll probably do a lot of reading of those pregnancy and baby care books that everyone will recommend or pass on to you. You may find yourself submerged in online birth clubs and baby blogs, scouring the internet for those precious gems of wisdom that often are found...

one of the funniest things i’ve seen is that cable tv ad where the dude is on his roof trying to install some kind of umbrella thing over his satellite dish to prevent rain fade… it’s nonsense for two reasons - first the sheer silliness of trying to do such a thing, but second, rain fade is not a result of the dish getting wet and it’s a shame that tv ad people propigate such a fallacy…...

see that sad face? that’s me when the weather ain’t perfect… in my endeavor to get the best internet bandwidth available to ppl who live in BFE, i jumped off and tried satellite internet. first of all, if ALL YOU DO IS DOWNLOAD (and you only use it when there’s not a cloud in the sky), it’s amazing, once you’re “assimilated” into the network operations center....

the angry face is directed to Direct TV - sure, i love my digital satellite TV but they PROMISED me 2 years ago that my area would be getting local network television availability in “june.” that was in 2000. it’s now SEPTEMBER 2002 and the story is, well, we just can’t provide local network service to all 1600 major broadcast areas. hmm… anyway, all the complaining aside, if you...