Nerhood Weblog

On Friday, May 28, 2004 we drove down to Waldorf, MD again to have another Ultrasound of the baby. This time Fern’s parents were able to join us. It is amazing to see how much the baby has grown. She is now over 3 lbs. Fern has posted many of the pictures we got in [...]

As I mentioned on Friday, Fern had updated the items in our photo gallery. Well she has added another whole bunch. Here is a partial list of some of the newest ones.
Wingerts & Nerhoods
Dress Up
Ultrasound at 31 Weeks
Llamas
Strawberry Picking with MOM’s Club
Ellie & Ken Play Ball
Cicada at 7 Oaks & Jeep Rides
To see all of [...]

I just finished listening to W. E. B. Griffin’s Close Combat (yes I said listening to, I listened to the unabridged version). It is the sixth book in the Corps series. While I’ve never actually “read” any of his books, I’ve listened to many on tape. This one continues the stories of the Marines during [...]

When I used to have a really long commute (1+ hours each way) at my old job, I used to listen to a lot of books-on-tape. The unabridged kind. It was really a great way to spend the while sitting in the car. When I was at the library last week checking out my books, [...]

Fern has been busy adding a bunch of new pictures to the Gallery so hop on over and take a look.

I finally started converting my old tapes (and hopefully) records to CD and MP3. I just finished my first one Amy Grant’s Unguarded (1985). I went to see this concert at Blossom Music Center in Cuyahoga Falls, OH. It was one of my very first concerts.
[Listening to: Love of Another Kind by Amy Grant - [...]

Late last night I finished The Skies Of Pern by Anne McCaffrey. It was the latest (I think) of her Dragonriders of Pern books. It was an enjoyable novel, it has been many years (at least 4 or 5) since I have last read one of her books, so it was a little tough remembering [...]

Last night Ellie asked if she could sleep in her new room. We’ve been working to get it ready and even though her new furniture will not arrive for another couple of weeks, we put her new sheets and quilt on the mattress on the floor, plugged her new nightlight in to the wall and [...]

Well, I think Fern and I have decided on a first name for the baby. It’s one that we have been pretty confident about for a while, but we’re still struggling with middle name. Before you ask, no we’re not ready to share what it is yet. Once we settle on a middle name we’ll [...]

After reading the announcement about the changes to the pricing for Movable Type (the software that powers this blog), I started looking at alternatives. The pricing changes really don’t effect me, I run just 1 bog with 1 author so it is still free for me to use, but I figured I’d take a look. [...]

Just my luck, it looks like the server that runs my personal mail server is starting to die. Granted it’s an ancient 133 MHz Dell laptop, but still… I just stopped working once over the weekend, so I dug it out from under the desk and rebooted it. It worked fine the rest of the [...]

We’ve been working hard to try and come up with names for the new baby, but we’re struggling. It was so easy with Ellie, we knew even before Fern was pregnant what we would call the baby, but now…
We have been reading a couple of really good books by Linda Rosenkrantz, and Pamela Redmond [...]

I’ve been playing with phpEventCalendar recently as a calendaring tool for group to which both Fern and I belong. The php and MySQL based calendar system was simple and worked really well for what I wanted, but one of the other systems that I looked had a neat feature. Whenever you would mouse over the [...]

In preparing for our migration from GroupWise to Exchange and Outlook 2003, I ran across a number of useful sites and figured that share them.
Outlook 2003
The University of Iowa Information Technology Services group has a section called Exchange Support that has good documentation and FAQs, including a guide for users migrating from Eudora
The Ohio Department [...]

It seems that we should open up a resume writing business. Over the past couple of months we have helped a growing number of friends improve their resumes. Both Fern and I work on them together. We have a format that looks professional, then we help put the right spin, details and keywords into the [...]