Tonight we bought a vacuum from a door-to-door vacuum cleaner salesman! It was his 3rd sale ever! The sales-manager (“the guy on the phone”) thought that it was his first. We got a really good deal. I’m such a softie for door-to-door people.
We bought a TriStar EXL. I won’t say how much it cost, [...]

Andy just uploaded a whole bunch more pictures of
Neil Andrew Pohl!I took the liberty of making a thumbnail page.

I just downloaded 2 new books from Audible.com.

The Hacker Ethic and the Spirit of the New Economy by Pekka Himanen, Linus Torvalds, and more
When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It! by Yogi Berra and Dave Kaplan

I’ll let you know how well I like them! I’m sure that they will be [...]

I’m an uncle again! YEAH!!!

Pictures: 1 2 3

From Andy:

Neil joined us last night at 6:34 p.m. with a little help from the doctors.
He weighs 8lbs 0oz and is 21.25″ long.

Here are a few pictures from last night. In some (actually most) of the
pictures you will see a funny looking plastic dome over his head. He [...]

Des Moines Register: TCP Consulting helps small firms solve Internet, network problems

Today, Steve Woo came over to the house after church. Actually he followed us home … sort-of (He got a little lost). Anyways … this afternoon, we played on his old computer that he converted into a linux machine. It was an old Pentiumtm 200. Did I mention how [...]

What a red-letter day! Andy has a blog!

David Deans seven principles from Now is Your Time to Win:

Accept your situation.
Be willing to fail.
Make daily preparations.
Be a professional.
Live in the present.
Do your best.
Let God help you.

Remember your victories rather than your defeats.

“I will persist until I succeed.”
-Og Mandino, The Greatest Salesman in the World