Author: brucewinter

Hi all, Looks like I missed my every other week email last weekend, but I had anexcuse. Nick and I spent last weekend up in the cities at the state highschool chess tournament. He won his first 3 games on Saturday, but didn’tfair so well on Sunday. They had some good players up there! His…

Whatsup! Nick and I just watched ‘O’, and recent movie about a high school basketballstart, following the Shakespeare Othello theme. A classic and effectivetragedy. One of the extras on the DVD was a 1922 version, which we alsowatched. It is a silent movie, where they display text on the screen waytoo long for us modern…

Hi Ho, Happy Valentines to all. I spent the part of this weekend moving ourlittle radio station ( http://misterhouse.net:8000 ) to the same Linux boxour web server is on so I could free up a computer to give to our friends(Coreliee and Ray) who have struck a deal with the local utility company toinstall a…

Hi all, Sitting about 15 feet from my letter typing fingers sits a 3 day old bigscreen TV. Our belated family xmas present. Zach and his friend Derektalked me into buying a bigger than planned tv, a 61 inch RCA dlp. NiceTV, a bit better than the 20″ one it replaced. Bright enough even duringa…

Hi all, Lets see … looks like last letter was 12/07. In one month we: – Blew the transmit on on our van, 2nd time in 1 year. This one waswarranted, but the dealer said Zack gets to pay for the next one 😉 – Slid the White car into a ditch one icy evening….

Yo, Happy Leap day. Made it by 5 minutes! We just finished our taxes today. Laurie and I filed joint in ’03 and shehas been working all week to get her tax data gathered. We needed to getthem done early so we could finish applying for financial aid at the schoolsNick applied to. Last week…