http://www.nerdrium.com/blog Nerdrium.com is the home web site for Michael Greifenkamp. His blog contains mundane musings of slight importance. en-us http://www.nerdrium.com/blog/comments.php?id=1315 We watched 60 Minutes tonight (we being myself, the redhead, and our daughter) and most of the show involved talking to the guy who was head of the CIA's "torture" section in the years following 9/11. ... mike@nerdrium.com Sun, 29 Apr 2012 22:17:00 EDT Apr 29, 2012 http://www.nerdrium.com/blog/comments.php?id=1314 And the first thing I see, as I try to clear the cobwebs away from my blog, is that Spring has Sprung! ... mike@nerdrium.com Sun, 26 Feb 2012 22:19:48 EST Feb 26, 2012 http://www.nerdrium.com/blog/comments.php?id=1313 I know I haven't blogged in three months. My fault. ... mike@nerdrium.com Sat, 31 Dec 2011 23:35:05 EST Dec 31, 2011 http://www.nerdrium.com/blog/comments.php?id=1312 It occurred to me the other day after I paid an extra $2 for signature confirmation for a plate that I sold on eBay for $2.99 making my total profit drop to about a buck and thirty cents, that maybe selling crap on eBay wasn't the way to go. Nobody has bid on any of the coins, and while I did sell t ... mike@nerdrium.com Wed, 14 Sep 2011 09:30:38 EDT Sep 14, 2011 http://www.nerdrium.com/blog/comments.php?id=1311 Weird couple of weeks, these past were. A few Fridays ago I took the day off and went fishing, and managed to get poison ivy--worse than I've had it for years. ... mike@nerdrium.com Thu, 08 Sep 2011 07:38:07 EDT Sep 8, 2011 http://www.nerdrium.com/blog/comments.php?id=1310 So when I started this whole not-drinking-during-the-week thing (which is still going fantasmagorically, thank you very much) it was some about money and a lot about, well, not drinking all the damn time. ... mike@nerdrium.com Mon, 29 Aug 2011 06:44:01 EDT Aug 29, 2011 http://www.nerdrium.com/blog/comments.php?id=1309 Really? Never used "annoyed" as a mood before? Huh. ... mike@nerdrium.com Tue, 23 Aug 2011 21:50:22 EDT Aug 23, 2011 http://www.nerdrium.com/blog/comments.php?id=1308 So over the weekend we did a lot of yard work--cutting down the weed trees that sprout up everywhere, pulling weeds, picking up sticks--all the stuff that we would have been doing all summer if it hadn't been 110 degrees out every day. ... mike@nerdrium.com Fri, 19 Aug 2011 06:35:25 EDT Aug 19, 2011 http://www.nerdrium.com/blog/comments.php?id=1307 I sold my first two items on eBay last night. I watched all week--checking multiple time throughout the day--with no activity. Then on the last day, boom. Sold the plate and had two different people bid multiple times on the water pump. How cool is that? ... mike@nerdrium.com Tue, 16 Aug 2011 04:10:53 EDT Aug 16, 2011 http://www.nerdrium.com/blog/comments.php?id=1306 I sort of misplaced recipes 1 and 2, but neither of them were that great--I had used McCormick pickling spice in them and the pickles came out really sweet (there was ginger and cinnamon in the pickling spice--yuck). ... mike@nerdrium.com Tue, 09 Aug 2011 18:13:07 EDT Aug 9, 2011