Entries from July 2007

No Longer Homeowners

Date July 17, 2007

We closed on our house in Austin yesterday. Despite some last minute confusion on a handful of closing-related topics that I don’t understand or follow very closely, we were done with our paperwork in 45 minutes. The couple that is buying the house were very personable, and we did a fair amount of chatting about […]

Subscribing to This Blog

Date July 11, 2007

I’ve had a couple of circular discussions with Julie about this, so I figured I’d add a brief entry to note two things for anyone who would like these periodic postings (I’ve been on a once/day roll here of late, but I’m sure that will taper off) to land in their inbox. I’ve had two […]

If I EVER act like that… redux

Date July 11, 2007

For those of you (again…BOTH of you) who follow this blog closely, you may remember my posting from a couple of days ago about my experience at a coach-pitch All Star baseball game. The coach actually responded with an e-mail that’s worth posting (published with his permission): Tim, Sorry it has taken me a day […]

Topical Movie Night: "The OH in Ohio"

Date July 10, 2007

We’ve just about decided the two-movies-at-a-time Netflix option might actually make sense. Julie and I only watch maybe one movie per month. But, at least for the next year or two, heading to the video store with Alana in tow will be a challenge. As much as Blockbuster is desperately trying to cling to their […]

You just never know what will get picked up on the ‘net

Date July 10, 2007

Somewhat suprisingly, considering that a not insignificant part of my job for the past 5 years or so has involved web analytics, but I spend next to no time looking at web traffic data for this site. Actually, maybe it isn’t all that surprising, since, being in the field, I know how easy it is […]

If I EVER act like that…

Date July 9, 2007

It’s the All-Star season for Pony baseball, and it’s the second week of the main tournament for the Pinto league (coach pitch). Benton didn’t play baseball this spring, but a good friend of his (whose parents are good friends of ours) did play. We went to a few of his games. He was good enough […]

A Future of Far Flung Avian Adventures?

Date July 8, 2007

Growing up, Kim and I were subjected to the occasional birding excursion by our parents. They were, if anything “heavy casual” birders, which meant very few trips whose primary purpose was birding. There was the occasional day trip for that purpose, but the only multi-day trip that I remember was over Thanksgiving one year, when […]

FAIR WARNING: Anti-War Posting

Date July 6, 2007

I was poking around in the web traffic data that is built into secondtree.com, and I saw that a page I posted back in September 2004 regarding US casualties in Iraq seems to continue to get traffic. One thing that shows is that I was definitely already a data geek back then. At the time […]

Interesting Facts About Ohio Installment No. 2

Date July 6, 2007

I just noticed on the last posting on this subject that the bullet formatting didn’t turn out too well in IE7. I’ll check if it’s a fluke and then maybe go back and manually try to fix ’em. So, onto installment no. 2: Zanesville, OH, which is to the east of Columbus, is home of […]

"I didn’t do it!"

Date July 5, 2007

I was checking out Billy and Mary Moran’s site today and came across this picture of their youngest, David. There are actually a lot of pictures in the latest set posted where he is wide-eyed…but none that are as hilarious as this one!