Went out for a short drive on Christmas Eve to look at the luminaries and some of the Christmas lights around Neenah. Taken about 9:00 p.m. on 12/24/2011.
Driving the neighborhood streets on Christmas Eve with the rows of luminaries glowing along the sidewalks is one of my favorite things about the holidays here. Here’s a short video of the drive.
Some places you visit once and check off a list. Others get under your skin, and you find yourself driving back to them year after year, in different seasons, at different hours, just to see what they look like in a new light. Harrington Beach State Park is one of the second kind for me….
For years we have lived in and traveled through areas with weak cell reception, so I have leaned on a cell phone signal booster to get better data speeds and fewer dropped calls. When I first put this together my phones were on the AT&T and U.S. Cellular 4G networks. One honest update since then:…
“After I was diagnosed with an allergy to dog fur, I was told I could not touch my dogs. But I came up with a plan: I take lots of pictures of them and go on walks with them. Even though we are far from each other, we still have some bonding time. Chen is…
Bad weather!?!?!? I found this on my computer screen yesterday morning — my desktop weather gadget was reporting a balmy 122° here in Neenah! Safe to say there was a glitch in the forecast data somewhere. We’ll pass on 122 degrees in Wisconsin. Gave me a good laugh to start the day.
I originally wrote this review in November 2009, when the Sony VAIO VGN-NW240F was brand new and running a then-fresh copy of Windows 7. I’ve cleaned up the formatting and added a quick-specs box, but I’ve left the review itself as the honest first-look it was at the time, a little time capsule of what…