We haven’t blogged in a good long while. Covid has colored a lot of things and a lot has changed in the last two years. For the most part, it has just given us less to blog about due to…
Monsoon Madness, Cats and Why Being a Linux User Can be Tricky
Apologies for how few pool updates we’ve had! There are two reasons for this. One) we have had frequent enough monsoon storms that there have been significant delays. Two) Chris and I both run Linux rather than Windows PCs or…
WetPhone 6: Think Poorly
We were having a nice time. I had never swum in fresh water. The idea of not swimming in salt or chlorine sounded ideal so we went to Jordan Lake: Then disaster struck: Here’s the rest of the sorry day:
Day 27: The Farce of July in Philadelphia
So my friend and I both agreed fireworks were one of the biggest and most traditional parts of the fourth of July so since it was rainy in the morning, we decided to only do the fireworks. Val had never…
Day 20 Part 1: Incendiary Indianan Interstate Incidents
Indiana was, frankly, the worst experience we’ve had on the road. The roads were full of pot holes and aggressive drivers. As long term readers of the blog know, Chris still has no alien number sorted out, and therefore, if…
Social Security, Maybe Part 2
Today, I mustered up the courage to look at my status on the USCIS (immigration) site. I was pleasantly surprised at the case status moving from ACCEPTED to OPTIMIZED. Another part of the status had been set to Pending for…
Dodge-y Language
The car doesn’t like me. Or at least the Uconnect voice recognition (VR) system is toying with me. I do speak the Queen’s English (or at least a dialect spoken by one of her humble servants) so why am I…
Social Security, Maybe.
Obtaining your SSN is a one-time event: you can’t get good at it. It has been awkward to not have one because you are asked for it whenever you do something financially significant. In the last video, we failed completely. Several…