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Calvin pointed out a great site that measure your Footprint on the earth. How depressing. If everyone used as much as I do then we would need 5.2 Earths to survive! Makes me want to renew my Terrapassto offset another 100,000 pounds of carbon like I did this year 🙂…

Wow, cool to have an indoor grill in the winter…Here are some good recipes for halibut and scallops. Main thing is to make sure the grill is well oiled so the fish doesn’t stick Soy Halibut Steaks – Grilled Halibut Recipe Combine all ingredients, except the halibut, in a small…

Shawn was so nice to pick some great quality wines for me. Nothing like taking advantage of 20 years of experience. Particularly these rare Australians and an amazing online merchante, klwines.com 2007 Mollydooker “Blue Eyed Boy” Shiraz $49.99  $599.88 2005 Kaesler “Stonehorse” Shiraz Barossa Valley South Australia $22.99  $137.94 2006…

If you go all out, you need something that has four USB ports by Rocketfish for $20. I got one from Best Buy that is clumsy but it works. Internet search shows not much but J&R has an Intek for $25 but these aren’t reviewed and the Amazon one by…

For those of us without anything else to do, here is all the shopping you can do on a Saturday: * Ikea (601 SW 41st St, Renton, WA 98057). Saturday 10AM-9PM* Lowe’s (2700 Rainier S). Saturday 6AM-9PM* Macy’s (1601 Third Ave). Saturday 10AM-10PM* Costco (4401 4th Ave S). Saturday 930AM-6PM.…

Highdefdigest.com has a good review set of Blu-Ray disks by overall, then also by video quality (for demos) and audio quality (for demos). Other sources of Blu-ray reviews are blu-ray.com which I found lots closer to my personal tastes. Here is Blu-ray.com’s top rated list: 1. The Dark Knight (Blu-ray)…

Well with Blu Ray out and also PS3, Wii and Mac games, what are the things to get using Gamerankings.com as a reference and you can try things like Gamefly.com to rent and try these which toptenreviews.com likes. BTW, besides Costco, Newegg.com looks like the cheapest place to buy games…

Well that must be the 72 hardest hours I’ve ever had. Still, I’m amazed at how resilient and kind people can be. I’ve never had such ups and downs. Watching “Mamma Mia” was the highlight. I’d never really listend to ABBA lyrics before and they have some great ones that…

Life is really two steps forward sometimes. Today I felt great at 9 then at 10 the past hit me like a ton if bricks. Somethings are such “close run” things it seems. Maybe one word said differently a year ago could change the times. Or is it all just…