Fantastic Gymnastics Finish

April 24, 2010 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: CMS, Gymnastics.

Congratulations to Clare for finishing her first year in AAU gymnastics last weekend! Reedsburg High School was the venue for the AAU state meet, for which she qualified earlier in the year. The quick summary is that she earned two top 5 medals in beam and bars and took 9th on vault in the 13-year-old • Read More »

One of those rare days

April 1, 2010 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: Geek, PAS.

I use iGoogle as my home page in my browser. Love it. One of the features of this arrangement is the ability to add widgets to the page and plug in RSS feeds from blogs (like this one ;-)). As you might imagine, one of the built-in widgets shows the weather. This one allows you • Read More »

Oh, the humanity!

March 22, 2010 | By Patrick | 1 Comment | Filed in: Geek, PAS.

If you’ve seen me lately, no doubt you’ve seen the headphones or ear buds in my ears. I’m a huge fan of podcasts and always (yes, always) listen to something when I’m not doing anything else. Heck, I’ll listen even when I’m doing something else. It’s just audio, right? Very easy to multitask. In fact, • Read More »

Name that car…

March 6, 2010 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: Geek.

Clearly, I know nothing about cars. Found this on The Oatmeal. AND FAILED! F Quiz Created By Auto Insurance

When does 20 minutes = 8 minutes?

February 8, 2010 | By Patrick | No Comments | Filed in: HKS, Volleyball.

Another tournament visited, another tough day on the court. UW-Platteville was the site of last weekend’s volleyball tournament for the Wisconsin Performance 16s Black team. Leaving the house at 7, we made the trek to Platteville (never been) and found the fieldhouse easily – Thank you, Garmin. To all tournament hosts: Could we trouble you • Read More »