With my luck in the kitchen these days, I think Culinary Capers is going to be a regularly appearing column. I’ll share successes and failures in my quest to become a decent cook. Think back to every job announcement you’ve ever read. Probably under desired qualifications they listed “attention to detail,” which would mean I [...]

I’ve had a very full two weeks which has given me so much to be thankful for!

Trip to Utah- A quick 4 day trip, jammed packed with family and friends.  There are many things I love about Utah: afternoon thunderstorms, sunflowers growing like weeds along the side of the road, family and friends. I love spending [...]

Today, July 24, 2009, Jeremy and I celebrate our two year anniversary!  I’ve been pretty nostalgic about it all since last friday when I was at a friends wedding.  I’ve flipped through our wedding photos multiple times now and with every picture my grin gets bigger and bigger.  We loved that day.
I feel so lucky [...]

I admit it, I’m a competitive person when it comes to games (who in the Smith Family isn’t? Think PIT!). Over the last year or so Jeremy and I have amassed a small collection of board games to play together. I owned PIT, but it doesn’t really work well as a two player game (and [...]

This Monday marks the 30th anniversary of one giant leap for mankind…  also it’ll be 40 years since man landed on the moon.  To commemorate this occasion I give you a musical time waster.
Jump to 3:00 if you want to just hear the song. (ASIDE: In college my roommates wrote a love song for me [...]

Work: Work has been pretty crazy, things are finally picking up as we begin shipping two localized versions of PerformcePoint Server 2007 every couple weeks! We just signed off on the German and Japanese RTM last Thursday (Release To Manufacture) and this coming week is going to be all French and Spanish bug fixes as [...]

Work- I started working again this week!  It’s a temporary job, very flexible time, and I get to take the bus!  It’s great to be working again.  A very good side benefit is that I work with my sister, Amy, part of the time!  She’s extremely busy, so we don’t get much time to just [...]

Abbie started working this week, and taking the bus.  Since she doesn’t have a bus pass (yet?) the jar of change that I had kind of forgot about has been unearthed, and is steadily being depleted of quarters and dimes leaving nickels and pennies….  for which I have found a use.  (I use the term loosely [...]

This is a very special Friday Time waster…  so special I couldn’t wait…  I had originally scheduled this one to come out on Friday but I’m posting it now because I couldn’t wait to share it with Abbie.
PopCap games (Abbie’s favorite game studio and publisher) is giving away a World of Warcraft themed mini version of [...]