Halloween night was fun. Linda came over and brought "Yoda" with her. Susan deemed it too cold for Morgan to trick-or-treat, so Linda and I along with Yoda and Spider-Man sat out on our quest for candy. Mom came over to see the kids and barely caught us before we left our street. Mason already had a ton of candy from trick-or-treating both the zoo and the FAA; now he has two tons. Susan's sister and mom came over at different times to hang out with the kids for a bit. After trick-or-treating was
Susan and I went to lunch with Johnny, Emily, and Emily's daughter Cecily today to Panera Bread. While a bit on the expensive side (their lunch special is $7, before taxes and a drink), it's a great place to go if you're on a diet. For lunch they sell sandwiches, soup and salad, and the lunch special allows you to pick two items from any of those categories. Today I got half a salad (around 200 calories), half a bowl of soup (around 50 calories), and a chunk of bread (around 150 calories). Yum y
Here I am, six days into my Vegas adventure without a single blog entry -- how unlike me! However, I do have a legitimate excuse. I forgot my laptop! Susan had to mail the stupid thing to me via Fedex. It's here, I'm here, and now I'm playing bloggy blog catch up.
Over the next few days I'll try and recap the trip so far. Topics I'll be covering:
- The trip to Vegas
- Classic Gaming Expo (CGE)
- The CGE Museum
- The CGE Auction
- Meeting Three Heros At Once
- Visiting the Pinball H
I've told this story around the office a couple of times this week so I might as well share it here.
Wednesday night, I took Morgan to McDonald's after work for dinner. She hasn't eaten dinner pretty much every night this week, so I thought I might
coax her into eating Wednesday night by first showing her the playground, and then offering to let her play on it as a reward for eating dinner. Of course, the minute she saw the playground she was done with me. Off she went, briefly on to th
The Cult of the Dead Cow has officially released GoolagScan -- but what exactly does it do?
Google is a very powerful search engine. Google indexes billions of websites, and lots and lots of little bits of information about each of those websites -- lots of information, in fact, that website owners may not even realize is being archived. Through crafty and sometimes complex Google searches, that information can be retrieved.
Everybody who's used Google for any length of time has learned
Just when I got the family weaned off of videotapes, "Pivo", our living room-based media center PC, up and died on us. I can't say that I didn't get my money's worth out of the box I was using -- I bought it over a year ago off Craigslist for $100 -- but during a recent winter storm our lights flickered, the machine went off, and that was the end of that. The power supply fan spun, but that was the only sign of life. I pulled every card and swapped out all the RAM, to no avail.
This happene
After several years of being a loyal Palm customer, I had to let them go.
As electronic organizers go, I was kind of a late adopter. I bought my first one, a Palm III, right around 2000. Instantly, I was hooked. Compared to modern PDAs and phones, the Palm III is pretty simplistic -- there's no camera, no memory slot, and no color screen -- but the ability to carry around my contacts, my calendar, and my notes was pretty exciting. A couple of years later I upgraded to a Palm Zire 72, a pret
I knew McDonald's wouldn't fail me. Just 24 hours later ...
For those who don't know (like whoever put this sign up), it's a McRib -- not a MacRib. They got it right on the other side of the sign, so customers are welcome to choose the spelling of their choosing.
Beaver's Bend, that is. Susan's back from her four-day stint in Vegas, and after less than a day home we're on the road again -- this time, it's all four of us. This weekend we're hanging out in a cabin in Beaver's Bend, Oklahoma. It's a four-hour drive to the cabin, but the trip was made significantly more pleasant since I brought the Xbox along. Mason played Lego Star Wars II almost the entire trip. We had a very pleasant stop along the way in Antlers at my Uncle Kenny's place. My cousin David
As reported by the Associated Press this week, starting in 2009 OnStar will be adding a new feature that allows police departments to halt your car in case you are involved in a police chase. The article also mentions that in 2009, OnStar will be installed in 20 different models (OnStar already has 5 million subscribers). Don't forget that all OnStar units constantly broadcast your location via GPS to the OnStar office. If you have OnStar installed in your vehicle, whether you pay for the servic
If you haven't seen one in person yet, the new Smart cars are small. Really small. Like, they're so small that when you pass one (they don't pass you) you think, "That's too small to be on the road." I've seen a couple of them zipping around town, but hadn't seen one up close and personal until yesterday when Johnny drove his (and by his I mean his wife Stephanie's!) to work.
Johnny is six-foot-two and "a lot of pounds." Yours truly is six-foot-flat and also "a lot of pounds." The Smart
For the past three weeks, the city of Yukon has been preparing for this weekend's opening of their giant Christmas light festival, Christmas in the Park. In fact, when the family and I went to the Community Center the weekend before Halloween for their annual haunted house (Spooksville), Christmas lights were already being hung around the parking lot.
While we were out with the kids tonight we decided to drive through the park and look at the lights. Gates were scheduled to open at 6pm, and
Friday night Susan, Mason, Morgan and I met the Martins (my friend Jeff, his wife Heather, and their two youngest children Talon and Madison) for dinner at Mazzio's Pizza in Yukon. It doesn't seem like that long ago I was washing dishes and preparing pizzas and Jeff was delivering pizzas at that exact same location, but when I do the math I quickly realize that was over 18 years ago. Kids and young adults often throw around the phrase "time flies," but it is not until you get a little older that
Once again, Sun Valley’s annual Garage Sale Day went off without a hitch. The kids, Susan and I woke up around 7am, piled into the van shortly after and made a b-line for dad’s house. Mom, Jack, Linda and Griffin were already there waiting.
Last year, Dad, Mason and I made our way around the garage sales on dad’s two riding lawn mowers, Dad driving one with Mason and myself on the other. This year, I brought over the golf kart, and the three of us rode our way around the neighborhood while
Another year, another Sun Valley Garage Sale Day gone by.
As a youngster, my mom and grandma hauled my sister and I to our fair share of garage sales, but Sun Valley's Garage Sale Day was the first "neighborhood" garage sale I can personally remember attending. On every Garage Sale Day, dozens of our neighbors would open their garage doors, exchanging both greetings and piles of junk with one another. Garage Sale Day wasn't just about the garage sales -- it was a neighborhood-wide block part
Tomorrow is Sun Valley’s annual Garage Sale Day, the one day each year where dozens of people from the neighborhood I grew up in all have a garage sale on the same day. I know some of you are thinking, “what he really should be doing is getting rid of crap instead of amassing more of it,” but Sun Valley Garage Sale Day is less about buying stuff (although we almost always come home with something unique) and more about running into old friends. It’s like Homecoming, if at Homecoming they sold ug
Earlier in the week Susan noticed signs posted around the entrance of our neighborhood announcing that this weekend would be garage sale day for not only our neighborhood, but all four neighborhoods that corner the Reno and Czech Hall intersection. We don't get a chance to garage sale as often as we would like, so these neighborhood garagle sales are a good way to get the best bang for your buck, so to speak -- you can hit 20 or more garage sales in one day and get the whole garage sale thing ou
Early Saturday morning I hopped in my truck and drove 250 miles to Bentonville, Arkansas, for another round of hunting for and playing videogames with several of my friends from Digital Press. Icbrkr and his wife once again hosted the festivities. Icbrkr's buddy Grimbal showed up, along with 98Pacecar (from Dallas) and Gapporin (from Joplin). Yes, I know constantly referring to people by their online aliases is geeky.
Due to a mix-up in directions I ended up following Icbrkr's instructions i
The majority of day two was spend on the beach. Actually, day two went a lot like this: breakfast, beach, lunch, nap, beach, dinner, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull (hey, it's my vacation too!).
Because the cabin is so small, we have things stacked on the kitchen table, the stove, and the bench next to the table. When we eat, we have to move the piles around and move them back afterwards. Breakfast consisted of scrambled eggs and pancakes. The kids helped cook and the foo
Sorry about the Spanish numbers -- we have seen so many restaurant names and road signs in Spanish, it's hard not to get your mind stuck in Espanol mode. The gulf is a multi-cultural place. Breakfast today was served by a Chinese guy with a thick Spanish accent selling kolaches. Dos doughnuts, por favor!
Today's adventure took us north (relatively speaking), to the Johnson Space Center in Houston. Mason is really into outer space things right now, so he was in love -- and, as a guy who used
You wanted it (doubtful), you asked for it (even more doubtful), you got it (true) -- 258 pictures from our vacation to Galveston, Texas!
http://www.robohara.com/albums/galveston
My wife Susan and I bought our first "real" house together back in 1998, after moving back home to Oklahoma from Spokane, Washington.
(We don't really count our first house, the $30,000 El Reno Money Pit built in the 1880's, as a "real" house per se. It predated Oklahoma's statehood by 25 years, used hay and newspaper for wall insulation, and still had gas lines hanging on the walls that had once been connected to lanterns for indoor lighting. It was a house, but barely.)
Like many youn
Saturday I finished off my Boston trip by joining Jason Scott on a trip to Funspot in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire. Weirs Beach is a cute little lakeside community with lots of cottages, restaurants, and attractions to see ... during the summer. In the winter, most of those things are boarded up or chained closed. Fortunately for Jason and I Funspot is open year-round, which made for a much more interesting visit.
Funspot claims to be "The Largest Arcade in the World." I don't know what specif
Yesterday I got calls from two different friends needing help. First was my friend Tim (aka Tim Dog). Tim's father-in-law passed away on Thanksgiving. We are also friends with Tim's wife and Tim's mother-in-law. They are wanting to put together a slideshow of scanned photos for the family luncheon after the funeral service, and I told them I'd be glad to put it together. Last night I scanned in around 150 photos into the computer (about a minute per photo). This morning I'll begin importing them
This week at work I've been meeting with the external user provisioning team here in Oklahoma City. Emily, Johnny and I (all locals) make up 3/8 of the group; the other five members hail from Washington DC, Seattle, Austin, and Atlanta (the location of our last meeting). During the week I found out that both of the guys from Atlanta (Earl and Curlen) are in to videogames, so I decided that Thursday night after dinner I'd invite the team over for some videogames and beer (two things that always g
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