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Being a steady customer at a local business absolutely has it's benefits. Not only are you helping your local economy directly, they generally take awesome care of you as a customer. Patrick and Tad at D&R Market have really been bringing in a… more »

... other than just general "stuff."It's too cold and windy to ride, so we're not able to do that. It's also too cold to paint, so I've got no new awesome rocket pictures to show. I'm working on getting back into R/C flying, but the items haven't a… more »

I haven't written a lot this week as there isn't much to write about! It's getting cold here already, so hobby activities tend to slow down. I've got finish painting some rockets, but I've been waiting on a > 60°F day to do it. Looks like I'm not… more »

I haven't done a Monday AM mish-mash in a while so here goes! :D Had a totally awesome weekend! Saturday started off with a trip to the Feast of the Hunter's Moon. It was our first time going. Yeah, we've lived in Lafayette for 6 years now (and M… more »

I've got a pretty busy week, so it could be a slower posting week than usual! Mostly good, mostly fun, but definitely busy.Wednesday's my 15th wedding anniversary, so I'm off work and we've got a full day of fun stuff planned. Hard to believe it's… more »

The Pem-Tech Screamin' Green Meanie is basically done! Of course, I won't launch it without paint, as this is a "looks" rocket rather than a performance rocket, but it's still nice to have it essentially done. It was a fun, easy build too. I'm looking… more »

That's cheese. Not just any cheese though - it's four amazingly good cheeses. We shop at D&R Market pretty much every day. We get most of our food there. The people that run it know we like good food, and so when they decided to get in about 1000… more »

That number up there, forty-five point three (45.3!) is how many miles we rode over Saturday and Sunday. That still may not seem like a huge total to any more serious riders that may be reading this, but again, keep in mind, we just this year were at a… more »

For our past 3 or 4 car loans -- and this dates back to around 1999 -- we've rolled forward a not small amount of negative equity. It was fairly small at first, but gradually got pretty big, and needed to be taken care of. We'd decided it was time to… more »

Yeah, I haven't been writing as much lately. Mainly, because I figure the people reading this blog don't want to read a bunch of "yeah, we rode another 10 miles today and it was awesome!" type of posts. :D Well, we have been riding a lot. We've even… more »

I haven't posted in several days, mainly because there isn't much worthy of posting about. I'm waiting on several shipments which comprise all the stuff I need to get the Helios in the air -- all that stuff will be here by Friday. Weather has been not-… more »

This weekend we took my bike, a Trek 7.3 FX, into our awesome local bike shop, Hodson's Bay Company to get checked over and ready to ride. There's probably an old entry here on SoD from when we bought these bikes (she has a matching one); I believe… more »

We went to Indiana Beach yesterday, and rode some rides! Normally that wouldn't be a big deal for anyone living around here. But if you've been following this blog for a while, you know we're finally able to be able to do this. Sure, we could've gon… more »

Other than the post below this one, detailing my own Local Economy Stimulus Package, I've got quite a bit going on. It's getting to be Spring again, which means I can finally take part in outdoor hobbies again soon! Mainly that means RC flying for me… more »

As if it wasn't enough that I am into MMO gaming (which requires me to keep my gaming machine updated - expensive) and radio control flying (which requires me to keep my planes maintained and repaired, and occasionally add new ones - also expensive), I d… more »

For the last 2 years or so, we had been talking vaguely of moving "soon". Soon being defined as "as soon as we could actually pull it off", which could have been 2-5 years or more. You see, the neighborhood we moved into in 2003 had started going w… more »

Saw a killer concert Saturday night! Maybe one of the best I've ever been to... I dunno. I've seen Rush twice, and I saw Metallica and GnR when they were touring together -- and this might have been better. I'm not sure. It was a damn good show! T… more »

We bought a new car yesterday! Perhaps not the best possible move in our situation, given we had around $7,000 worth of negative equity in our old vehicle, but it was aging, not overly comfortable for us, and got abysmal gas mileage. The new car is a 2… more »

El Indio, the best Mexican restaurant in Lafayette, nay, in all of Indiana, closed like a week ago and I have to say, that sucks. :P We knew it was going to happen but it still sucks. Withdrawal is the suck. Might as well have been CRACK... :( more »