We went shopping today at the outlet malls in Pigeon Forge with my family.
For Aeris
Love,
Tiff
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Sunday Drive – Cades Cove, Parsons Branch, and more!
19
Jun
Summer must be the time for drives… My last post was about my Saturday “afternoon” drive to Hot Springs, NC and running across a Civil War reenactment. That drive was a fairly lengthy 5 hours, but this past Sunday, we took a drive that blew that one away 
Cades Cove
Weekend Drive
14
Jun
The weekend of 6/5, Tiff had gone to Ohio to visit the family for Andrew’s graduation. I spent a restless Thursday and Friday nights at home, as I didn’t have my wife with me and for whatever reason all of my normal activities (video games, programming, etc) just didn’t seem appealing.
So Saturday I decided to go for a drive. I ran from the apartment through a back-way into the Great Smoky Mountain National Park into the south end of Gatlinburg. It’s a great way to get to Gatlinburg, actually, as you can avoid all of the inevitably horrid Pigeon Forge and “spur” traffic. From there I took 321 out towards Cosby, then shot north to Newport via some back-roads, including a small section of Foothills Parkway.
Newport, TN is an interesting little town that I have never driven though before. Definitely worth more exploration someday. From there I decided that I wanted to go further east with a vague plan to loop south through North Carolina and hook back up with I-40 for a quick ride home. Well, somewhere along the way, i ran into the “end” of a road and was out of range of Verizon’s 3G so I couldn’t get anymore maps…..soooo I back-tracked and kept heading east. Read the rest of this entry »
New Headphones
09
May
Well, after a good long service life (for daily use), my Sennheiser PX100’s have developed a bad connection somewhere in the signal cables. 
Makes me very sad, as for the price, I’ve never had a set of headphones that combined so much quality, comfort, and portability in one package. I use/used them almost exclusively over the “in-ear” type headphones due to the comfort; Also, a decent set of ear-buds costs more than I’m willing to spend on set of ‘phones to which the kinds of abuse portable headphones are subjected. Read the rest of this entry »
Friend’s t-shirt design – Emotional Sundae
04
May
A friend of mine (Matt), designed a pretty awesome t-shirt and submitted it to threadless for possible production. Please vote for it because 1) it’s awesome, 2) he deserves it, and 3) Ice Cream is the best dessert ever.
It’s not approved yet, but you can possibly improve the odds by using the Facebook “Like” widget on the right.
Now GO AND DO MY BIDDING!
(also, see his art blog here: http://mattsynowiczblog.blogspot.com/)
Another new theme
29
Apr
I liked the old theme fairly well at first, but the more I looked, the more problems there were with it…especially in Firefox and Chrome, and especially Firefox and Chrome on Linux.
UNACCEPTABLE
Here’s a new one.
Vote for Mountain Dew Distortion
20
Apr
If you haven’t yet tried the new Mountain Dew flavors, you need to go out and see which one you like.
Distortion is definitely my favorite at this point with Typhoon being a close second. White Out is *meh*
I know we have a few Dew drinkers in the family, so get out there and try one (or 3)!
Tiffany’s birthday
10
Apr
Sitting at Smashing Tomato Pizza in Lexington KY with mom, Rich, and Jeanette for Tiff’s birthday
Spring Break: Illinois – Part Deux
04
Apr
This is a bit on the late side, but Tiff has been bugging me to write a little something about the rest of our trip to IL. So, here’s some pictures, because each one is supposedly worth 1000 words 
Tristan on his dirt bike
Spring is officially here…Fishing day
30
Mar
Yesterday, a friend from church called me and asked if I fished. I told him, “Well, I like to, but I haven’t in a long time”. “Well,” he says, “do you want to go with me tomorrow?” Needless to say, I accepted and spent yesterday evening getting myself ready…filled up the car, got my hunting/fishing license, gathered some snacks, etc.
I woke up this morning at 6:15 and quickly got myself in the car and over to Archie’s house to help him get the boat hooked up to his truck and get the bait and tackle prepped. He lives less than 5 minutes from the boat ramp he uses, so we were in the water by 7:15am and had the rods out by 7:30. Read the rest of this entry »