Nerhood Weblog

I’m a dark chocolate lover. I love the new dark chocolate M&M and Hershey’s dark chocolate kisses just to name a couple. Today I tried something new 3 Musketeers midnight. Now I must admit that a 3 Musketeers bar is one of my favorite candy bars, but I really didn’t care for the dark chocolate [...]

Thanks to a new construction project on the Russell Street Bridge, my commute just got a whole lot worse. For 2 1/2 years!!!
The City of Baltimore, Department of Transportation will be replacing the 1,042 foot long bridge that carries Russell Street over Monroe Street. Construction is expected to take approximately 30 months to complete. During [...]

As I posted back on May 6th, Sarah had just gotten her first tooth. Since then she has added two more (the third one broke through on Tuesday). The poor kid has just not been herself during this whole time. She’s been fussy, cranky, occasionally feverish, and easily upset. Hopefully she’s done for a little [...]

Another email from my folks, this time from Vilnius, Lithuania:
Sunday, 22 May, 8:50 pm
Hello loved ones!
Dad and I just finished a wonderful steak dinner. We had beer ice cream for dessert and it was so delicious. It was less sweet and less fatty than regular ice cream.
This morning we worshipped at a 410 year old [...]

After five years and just over 100 episodes we bid farewell to Andromeda. It’s hard to believe that it’s been five years already. With a really cool ship, quirky characters, and a decent premise, Andromeda was a fun show to watch. This last year was a little confusing, seeing as how I missed most [...]

Here is the text from an email my folks sent about there trip so far.
Dad and I just returned to the hotel from the ballet. The dancing and staging were superb! Lots of future ballerinas were in the audience. The trip has been excellent so far. The history of the two Baltic countries we have [...]

Just when it started to get really good,

My parents left this morning for a two week trip to the Baltics. They arrive in Tallinn, Estonia tomorrow morning where they will stay for two days. Estonia is a parliamentary republic with just over 1.3 million inhabitants. It’s capital is Tallinn. Estonia established it’s independence from the Soviet Union on August 20, 1991. Internet [...]

We use the excellent Nagios network, host and service monitoring software at the office to track the status of our servers, routers, and network devices and connections. The program works great and we love it. However, the one area that we have wanted to track was the status of Dell PowerEdge servers, particularly those running [...]

Yes, I am sick again! This makes 6 months in a row that I have been sick at least once. I’ve never been as sick as I have this year. I blame it all on my two germ factories (my lovable daughters). I was sick in April, then Ellie got, then Fern, then Sarah and [...]

Happy Mother’s Day Mom from you son, and Happy Mother’s Day Fern from you hubby!

Sarah had her 9 month check-up earlier in the week, and she is back on the charts again. 95th percentile for all categories with a weight of 21.5 lbs. Also, this week she had a number of first including standing up by herself, and finally she has gotten her first tooth (top left). It broke [...]

After a successful 10 year run, JAG officially ended this past Friday night. While the show never received any critical success or awards, I certainly enjoyed watching it over the years. I felt that it presented a fairly balanced take on current issues.
An article in the Baltimore Sun expresses some of the frustration that people [...]