Aug 28 2010
So… Facebook makes its money by selling ads; targeted ads. Ads that target.
Here is a targeted ad I saw today:
Talk about a non traditional way to get a job! Not that I have any hiring power in Cisco sales, but surely someone who works in Cisco’s sales is on Facebook and will view this ad. Maybe the guy’s money isn’t super-well spent, but hey – when nothing else has worked for long enough – why not this?
Apr 12 2010
Weekends are just fantastic.
This weekend, we enjoyed a friday night game night with our friends, the Brauns. It has been TOO long since we hung out! The best part of the night was when little Elizabeth came running into my arms and playing on my lap for a few minutes. Granted, her motivation was to avoid having to go to bed, but still – it was a FIRST! She is finally warming up to her Uncle Brows.
Saturday was going to be an intense yard day, but it wasn’t to be. I got up early to attend a baptism, and when Audrey went to go pull the mower out, she saw the TruGreen people pulling away – no mowing for 48 hours! At least our weeds will die now, and we’ll hopefully have something to mow!
We decided we could still trim the bushes, but when I got my trimmer out I quickly found that all of the batteries were dead. As dead as dead could be. I guess winter likes to drain batteries? Who knew?
So we went to Plan C: clean off the back porch. We had about 10 pots of various dead vegetation on our back porch that needed to be removed and destroyed. When we were all done, we were left with a single potted tree. Kinda sad, but kinda good.
I returned to the inside world where I got laundry and dishes done while Audrey washed her car and soaked up some of the great spring sunshine. What a beautiful, allergy-filled day it was!
That evening we enjoyed Sherlock Holmes together. I thought it was a really good movie. Well played!
Sunday, I barely made it to my 6:30am meeting. A2 had to re-wake me up at 6 after I had disabled my alarm at 5:30 and fallen back to sleep. I trudged to church and put in my obligatory 8 hours.
When I finally got home, A2 suggested that we watch Star Wars Episode 3 (the only one she had never seen…) so we did! It was a miracle that she suggested it. The only greater miracle would be if she ever asked to watch The Princess Bride. Somehow I avoided falling asleep during the movie.
We took a nice walk after the movie and enjoyed some of the activity in the neighborhood. These are some of the few weeks where people here in Texas enjoy being outdoors, unless you’re an allergy sufferer in which case you still have to wait for the fall to truly enjoy nice temperatures.
Nice weather outside always turns my thoughts back to our boring back yard. On our walk, we talked about what we wanted in our back yard. We verbally designed a 20 or 30 thousand dollar back yard, and then came back to reality to know that we just needed to do something simple that we could enjoy a few times per year.
Does anyone have any landscape design skillz? We need help translating our vision to paper!
Back to work today…
Feb 22 2010
This blog has been sadly neglected.
Excuses:
Does anyone even read this, still? Or have I completely falled off of your blog reading list.
Feb 11 2010
So Mrs. Brows and I spent last Saturday working on our finances, fixing our budget for this year, and trying to predict the future. In the process, we started talking about our retirement savings strategies.
Continue reading “Retirement Planning: To Roth or Not to Roth”
Dec 23 2009
Consider this your plate of holiday cookies and your annual “Christmas card” from WhiteEyebrows.
It’s been a good year. You can read about it at my wife’s blog. I don’t have much to add to the events. You all basically know what happened this year: we got engaged, planned a wedding, got married, did a lot of traveling, and learned to live with each other. I still draw pretty pictures and Cisco, she still plays around with spreadsheets at JC Penney. She wants a dog, I don’t. We both work hard at church – I’m the Bishop’s secretary and she’s a counselor in Young Women’s.
What you may not know is this…
Sep 22 2009
When the Space Shuttle undocked from the ISS earlier this month, they had to jettison their waste water before reentering earth.
At least when the space shuttle pees, it creates a beautiful celestial event.
Jul 10 2009
It has finally happened, my friends. After 3+ months of marriage, my wife has discovered my first personality flaw.
And it is…
May 06 2009
The Dining Room table saga continues…
Yesterday I saw a sign in our neighborhood advertising a furniture clearance at the model home in our neighborhood, so this morning I went to check it out. It was a mad-house! They had 3 tables there, but the one in the formal dining room I totally fell in love with.
And of course… it was sold and paid for already.
