Category Archives: News

How lucky I am to be flanked by two lovely Leo Ladies on my birthday! Christina on the 27th and Kate on the 30th. They also share their special days with big personal icons. Bugs Bunny (cartoon, 7/27/1940) and Kate … Continue reading →

We’re still getting our heads back together after a relaxing vacation and we completely forgot about this. How could we?! It was such a rockin’ day in Las Vegas. Me I could see since I was obsessing more about missing … Continue reading →

My cool, tri-lingual yet born Midwestern (trust me, mastering anything other than English is impossible where we’re from), friend celebrates her birthday! Formerly a resident of Hawaii, she now resides in the Nashville area so I hope she gets to … Continue reading →

Phew!  I had no energy left yesterday when we finally arrived in Austin early in the evening (around 5 PM, just in time for Rush Hour! Thanks American Airlines.) Even my 40th anniversary entry about the moon landing is “backdated,” … Continue reading →

Sorry if I don’t have any pictures yet. We’ve mainly been taking it easy: eating, sleeping, playing the Wii, drinking beer (me, not Somara) and socializing. The Silder boys are at camp from 9 AM to 330 PM so this … Continue reading →

Readily, I admit to enduring worse flights than the one from Dallas (DFW) to Dulles (one of three in the DC area) but I knew as soon as the plane was flying over dense clouds, the buffeting would begin. American … Continue reading →

Vacation 2009 #1 (maybe there will be a #2, money willing) was off to a rough start 10 minutes into the Spoon concert, the digital camera we bought last year broke. At first I thought it was a power issue. … Continue reading →

What a rotten trend I have with this little guy’s birthday. I guess the Fourth holiday weekend keeps throwing me off despite it staring there in my face via Now Up2Date. Well, I hope Rad’s oldest son/child had a great … Continue reading →

July 1 is the beginning of the Fiscal Year in the Maggi Republic. Back in 2006, that’s about the time I took over all the finances to ease the pressure on Somara; her job with HEB was stressing her out … Continue reading →

Around this weekend four years ago, I took the overdue plunge to have my “magazine” converted from plain HTML-driven website to ‘blog driven. Hopefully it has been worth it for everyone who reads. I tried to keep it civil, open … Continue reading →

My cool friend in Phoenix shares his birthday with the birth of a country, our northern neighbor Canada. I would recommend you sing “Happy Birthday” instead of “Blame Canada” though. Then again, I think I’ve accumulated a string of better … Continue reading →

In light of the upcoming holiday weekend, I will be taking my Mac Mini offline Thursday night or Friday morning to back it up. Something I haven’t done since Memorial Day. I promise to have it back up and running … Continue reading →

Not only is blistering hot this Summer in Austin (over 100 F/40 C today), June has been a blur for 2009. I can hardly believe next weekend will be the Fourth of July but I’m excited about our first vacation … Continue reading →

Nelson and Tammy tied the knot back in Milwaukee. They had a pretty cool celebration close to Lake Michigan. Despite the horrible flight I had courtesy of the now defunct TWA, I was thrilled to make it. I know I … Continue reading →

I know I promised a slew of updates over last weekend but I’m still shaking off the final remnants of that darned cold. Then having a bunch of inertia through most of Sunday didn’t help and it ended with a … Continue reading →