Water <3′s Basements, part 1

You might think of your basement as a cold, dank place full of spiders and old Christmas decorations, but your basement is actually the perfect place for water to hang out, and water knows it. Seriously, Water loves your basement… how could it not? It’s an empty space surrounded by porous walls partially below the water table. While you may think you can keep them apart, you’re probably wrong because water will always find a way, and when you’re fighting against 326 million trillion gallons of water, you’re bound to lose.
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My Four Shirts

Around the Miller home, when the weather starts to turn a little colder in the fall, it’s time to break out the four shirts. Also around that time, I start to think that I really need to buy some new shirts, but then I never do. I struggle through October and November with this small group of shirts I bought in high school or were given to me. I realize that this behavior is not normal. Continue reading

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The Metallica Font

Here’s something funny that happened to my Mac… whenever I would have to look at some kind of “official” window, like a software License Agreement or something like that, it would come up in this crazy Metallica font. Continue reading

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Getting with the 00′s…

Shenandoah National Park

Me, Mary and Francesca at Shenandoah National Park in July, 2011

So here I am getting hip to this whole “blog” thing the kids are into these days. Well, back in my day, we didn’t have your fancy internets… we had something called the Postal Service, where a government employee would hand-deliver messages from person to person. Continue reading

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