Customer: “Excuse me!” Walmart employee number one doesn’t make eye contact and tries to step out of her way.

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Patrick has always excelled at puzzles, so when we found this old video from 2009 we were quick to show off how bright our boy is. Or is it how dim you are? Watch the video below to find out which it is.

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Never have I had a dog who dislikes water so much, but is so willing to take a shower. Maximus loves his showers. Click the photo(s) here to see a larger version.

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I think Adobe’s automatic updater got a bit convoluted lately. Here is a dialog box that appeared while installing Photoshop the other day.

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We’ve had a few strange visitors to our urban Elk Grove home over the years. If you don’t count family, the friends we’ve invited or the girlfriends they brought with them, we’ve still had at least three worth mentioning, and all of them occur regularly in nature; just not in our neck of the woods. In the last 9 years, one scorpion, and two crawdads made our home

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I’ve been having a gargantuan desire to see the snow. Lisa and the kids and I haven’t been up to the cabin when there was any significant amount of white on the ground since May of last year. And that was more of a grayish brown by that late in the season. I get this same feeling every year during the fall and start of winter. But why?

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