the occasional occurrence

I’m married to a winner. I mean, we all knew that already, but now I am talking *grand prize* style winner.
Last weekend, confronted with the choice of scrounging up something for lunch at home or getting free BBQ at the local hardware store, we made the obviously correct choice (both Kerry and Bush supporters [...]

… through the ductwork of our house. The furnace that came with our house was pretty much burned out - so much so that flames came out of parts that flames were supposed to be contained within. A scary thing.
Thankfully, our house came with one of those home warranties that covers the major [...]

For those of you who tried to get to dowski.com over the weekend, I apologize for the outage. I made a stupid error in my web server config file that prevented anyone from accessing http://www.dowski.com. http://dowski.com would have worked fine, but now is not working. I’ll get it straightened out soon.
cw

Well, Curtis is 365 days old today. Under normal circumstances, this would mean he is one year old. Unfortunately for him, there another whole day to get through on the way to his first birthday. So either we are living in a leap year or someone is messing with the space-time continuum [...]

Alright my internet savvy friends … beware the “phisherman”. Recently I received a pretty convincing looking email saying that I had received a postcard. In the email was a link that looked like this:
http://postcards.com/cgi-bin/LinkSQL/postcards.cgi?Do=pickup&PickUpCode=40d00aab3c00b21c
There was the usualy talk of how to claim your postcard, blah, blah, blah. Can anyone tell me what’s [...]