Claire’s been following that weight-loss competition on TV, “The Biggest Loser”. My home office setup is in the living room, so I’ve kind of had to watch it too. Anyway, every time the competitors step on the scale, there’s this beeping sound effect as the weight measurement “stabilizes”. It reminds me of the microwave chime, [...]

The lease on my X-Trail was coming up this week, so Claire and I have been shopping for a pickup truck . How else to integrate properly into our new environment? Of course, this time we bought used. It took a while and a lot of research to figure out what we (okay, I) wanted. [...]