Entries Tagged as 'Personal News'

Tuesday, June 16th, 2009

Summer Begins June 21

Yesterday’s severe weather here in Columbus and Bladen County almost created a tornado. Almost all the needed conditions lined up to scare the tar out of most of us. Damage to some homes, vehicles, out building, trees, and power lines was not as bad as it could have been. No injuries is a good sign.
I [...]

Sunday, February 10th, 2008

Eating too Late and Nightmares

I have always heard that eating too late in the evening can lead to nightmares. Is it true?The other evening, my wife and I enjoyed a wonderful meal together at San Jose, one of our famous Mexican restaurant. San Jose is in Whiteville, North Carolina. It is located about 18 miles from our home. It [...]

Thursday, September 6th, 2007

Bio-tech field trip – continued

Bio-tech lab visited the campus of our community college today. I was impressed by the mobile lab. I really enjoyed chatting with Becky Westbrooks, SCC science instructor. She and her fellow

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Top 10 reasons I want to buy a Harley

After reading the blog post titled 101 reasons to buy a Harley, I started dreaming about buying a motorcycle.  A hallucination?  Maybe that is a better way to describe my thoughts.
Finally, as I crash from my imaginary high, through the haze, here are my top 10 reasons.  One might consider this an attempt to sort [...]

Wednesday, July 4th, 2007

July Fourth

Our family celebrated the 4th at the lake house.

From July Fourth 7…

Sunday, February 18th, 2007

What? Huh? I am sorry, what did you say?

Last night, my daughter, my wife, and I attended a wonderfully pleasant wedding. At the reception, the DJ spun his magical mix of jazz, rock, hip-hop, Top 40’s from the 70’s, 80’s, and 90’s. I am not sure how close my old ears got to the speakers, but my ears are ringing a little [...]

Friday, December 22nd, 2006

2006: Reflecting in a Pond

I was so happy to see the license plate on the school bus  as it pulled out of the parking lot. I have been sleeping and shopping, and eating, and surfing the Internet, and not taking a shower…too much information…
More thought later.

Saturday, February 18th, 2006

MacBook Pro Box

MacBook Pro Box
Originally uploaded by andrewe.
This is a cool Flickr site. It has images of the delivery of a new MacBook Pro. Almost as good as being there. Well, not really. Our tech department is getting a new one for our network admin. He has been using an old PC [...]

Saturday, December 31st, 2005

EdTech Predictions for 2006

While I am waiting for my family to awaken on this glorious, rainy, last day of 2005, I have reflected a little on ‘05 in anticipation of returning to school bright and early Monday morning for a 5 day week (I loathe a school year calendar that has a full week after a long break. [...]