a La Carte your life

First off, i totally agree with this statement: Here’s how you can use the A La Carte Method for yourself. Cancel all the discretionary subscriptions you can: your magazines, annual Rhapsody plan, cable — even your gym. (It would be totally ridiculous to cancel your Internet, though. I’d cry like a little girl if I [...]

Declutter

Okay .. so I’m a bit of a paper hoarder.   Sarah has worked on beating this tendency out of me.   Its been having an effect. We’ve been working at it a long while.  With the help of the Fujitsu Scansnap S300 I’ve made a ton of progress.  This scanner allows me to scan anything that [...]

Rocks and dirt are heavy (April 9)

Sometime during the week of April 4, i got the bright idea to build a raised garden bed to help with our veggie production.  Somewhere in that crazy scheme was also floated the idea of less grass in the backyard to mow.  Having inadequate wheels for the job i arranged to borrow my brothers F350 and a barely [...]

Water Softener

First thing that happened was upgrading the water system in the house (Sat, April 2). Being a computer programmer and less an handy guy I asked Dad to come over and help with the installation. When we bought the house we had the rough-in included for this upgrade so that made it very easy to [...]