Blog de Puree

On the advice of Randye’s parents, we stopped at the Blue Colony Diner in Newtown, Conn. The diner is located approximately half-way between her folks’ house in New Jersey and our house. Randye loved it because it had a huge menu of breakfast, lunch, dinner and other diner morsels that we don’t find at the [...]

I’ve heard of computer hacking and phone phreaking, but the concept of life hacking and work hacking was a new concept for me when I first heard of it a year ago. In a nutshell, it’s a bit if a geakier way to maximize your the time in your life or at work through streamlining [...]

Friday the 28th was a crazy day for me because I was hoping to receive some good news after a phone conversation I had on Thursday. Nothing came through by lunch time and I was starting to get anxious. Imagine that? The rest of the afternoon was an emotional roller coaster. Thankfully, Randye is quite [...]

Randye had a hell of an IT day today. A crack squad of suicide gremlins attacked her computer and the printer connection, delaying and lengthening her work day by about 3 and a half hours.
Here’s a quick synopsis of what happened.
Problem one: Randye’s Quark Xpress application, which she uses to create print page layouts, had [...]

I finally got around to helping my dad put the new door on to the shed in his back yard. What should have been a two-and-a-half hour job ended up taking us roughly four-and-a-half hours due to complications, rain and of course, lunch.
Some of our complications included:
The donkeys where my father purchased the door put [...]

Tarzan couldn’t take this kind of hot. The average temperature for the last four days was roughly 95 degrees in Essex County.
“(Pant) It’s too damn hot to even type,” Randye said.
To make matters worse, I suggested that Randye take her car for a drive during the day so she could cool off in the air [...]

This week marked a milestone for me because I was able to start rowing. It was the first time in many years since I’ve been on the water. So I started slowly.
After tying myself into the boat, which is basically fastening the velcro to the sneakers on the foot stretchers (where the feet go), and [...]

Although I am up and out of the house at the crack of dawn each morning, and the traffic on the way to work has somehow magically increased at that hour, there is something to be said for being up so early. I’ll often run into unexpected surprises that help me get through long days [...]

Yesterday was the Festival Regatta, run by my rowing club, the Merrimac River Rowing Association (MRRA), and it turned out to be a great day for rowing. The weather was not too humid and the sun wasn’t too brutal and there was the slightest breeze on the water, making for prime rowing conditions.
As a club [...]

Tina and Chris came up to Amesbury on July 4–well, more like met us on the road as Harry and Devyn were still “lights out” in the back seat. For T & C, the silence was a small miracle, so Randye and I jumped in the car and met them on the road and [...]