Time to renovate our house. Working from home lesson learned – make things look nice. I didn’t realize how much our house needed some touch ups until I spent all day in it. Plus, our kids are getting bigger and need more room to play. Given the rise in housing values, and our goal of …

For years I’ve dabbled with getting into trap shooting, and now I’m gearing up to make it a reality. I am really lucky to be a member of a gun club and can shoot whenever I want to get out. There are two ranges that I can use, and an electronic setup for the trap …

My new gaming rig “GigaHorse” is finally complete. I’ve wanted to build my own gaming PC for years! Here are a few things I picked up doing it. Assembling the PC was literally just clicking parts together. If you aren’t sure what to do you can easily find videos on YouTube explaining it. You can …

Streaming media in the home and having on-demand thousands of hours of television and movies is the one thing I wish I had when I was younger. Back then we counted on a trip to a local rental place to get a handful of videos that we’d watch over and over again before they were …

I built a gravel play box in the backyard over the three day weekend for the boys. I wanted them to play outside more, but quickly realized that there wasn’t much to do. I added a swingset for them last summer but it became clear that they needed another option. Since we’re constantly asking them …

I got into blogging through fly fishing. In the mid 2000s I started a project just to document all of the cool trips I was going on either by myself or with other anglers in a fly fishing club I was very involved in. Little known to me at the time was that there was …

It’s January and the start to a new year, what better time is there to commit to learning new skills? I always remember what my grandfather said to me, “the more you learn, the more you earn.” This is true, but it’s also important to realize new skills can broaden your horizon and help you …

I have written on this blog before that I tend to save resolutions for birthdays rather than the changing of calendar years because they’re more important for me. Turning 40 left with me with having met a lot of my goals that I set the previous year so I decided not to set any new …

It was a quiet evening at home and I was trying to make a backup of my hard drive. The process ran for several hours when a message popped up warning me that sectors on my hard drive failed to copy over. A quick Google search confirmed a worse case scenario; my hard drive was …