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…
Summer Solstice 2021
Each year, on the longest day, I take a picture of myself and note that the sun is at the highest point in the sky for that year. Phoenix is at a latitude of 33° north meaning that it is…
Monsoon 2020
After fifty consecutive days of the weather being over 110°F, the weather decided to do a spot of raining. Have a gander at the Arizona monsoon:
How To Work From Home Well
New to home working? Looking for some tips on how to do it better? Chris and I have both been working fully remotely since early 2016. We are in very different career situations. I am a freelance translator and ESL…
The First Ten Weeks: Wild Things and Tech Fun
The last few months have been a blur. Chandler and living in the Stone Oaks apartments feels like a million years ago with how action packed the last 10 weeks have been. We have finally fully unpacked. About half of…
Bothering Birds
Today at the Chandler Fashion Lego Store, we happened to run into a long time Instagram follower of ours who also blogs, Steve of Bothering Birds Here’s a short video:
A HiJenx New Year’s Eve
The last two years we had extremely low key New Year’s Eve celebrations. In 2016, it was because we both had terrible colds. This was actually a bit liberating, as it meant we already had one NYE under our belts…
The Memorials at the Arizona State Capitol
The US has two public holidays pertaining to celebration of military service. The first one in the year, Memorial Day, honors those who have died fighting for the US. It falls on the last Monday in May. The other one is Veterans…
Minor Differences and Major Similarities: Becoming Christophe with Cox Communications
So we are generally very happy with our internet provider, Cox. We have heard plenty of horror stories from the eastern half of the country where Comcast is more common. From what our neighbors have told us, the other option…
Lego Valentine
I have a greatly reduced interest in Valentine’s day compared to most women. Marrying someone with another February birthday only increased this disinterest. Basically, our birthdays are within a week and a half of each other, so the idea of…