Message to my kids.
Thursday, May 3rd, 2012 Posted in Lifestyle | No Comments »My beautiful son and daughter, I found this graphic on the web and thought of you. The graphics might be a bit cheesey, but the sentiment is appropriate. I just wanted to post this so you always know how I feel. All ...
Paintball: Urban Warfare
Thursday, April 12th, 2012 Posted in Lifestyle, Norway, Sports and Fitness | No Comments »I started off the Spring break vacation by taking the family for some fun at New York City Paintball (http://www.newyorkcitypaintball.com). The break was just an excuse needed to arrange an early birthday outing for my wife who, believe it or ...
Thoughts on Black History Month
Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 Posted in Lifestyle, politics | No Comments »Black History Month is here again and I find myself reflecting on how things have changed in just a few short years. For example, the story behind the above picture is that a little Black child visited the White House wanted to ...
Happy Christmas dance
Tuesday, December 27th, 2011 Posted in Lifestyle | No Comments »After finding out what we got for our Christmas presents, my daughter and I did a little happy dance in celebration. She got a Canon T2i
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 Launch
Tuesday, November 8th, 2011 Posted in Comics and Sci-Fi, Entertainment, Gaming, Lifestyle, Technology | No Comments »So last night I get in late from teaching an evening class and my son meets me at the door in damn near a panic. He tells me they are finalizing the pre-order sales for "Call of Duty: Modern Warfare ...
HTML 5 and CSS 3 Training Class
Friday, October 28th, 2011 Posted in LaGuardia, Lifestyle, New Media, Tech Training, Technology | No Comments »In order to enhance the knowledge that I acquired in January when I took the Wordpress theme design class at Noble Desktop, I decided to sign up for an HTML5 and CSS3 course. The industry is rapidly moving towards these ...
The 2011 NYC Comic Con
Sunday, October 16th, 2011 Posted in Comics and Sci-Fi, Entertainment, Lifestyle, New Media | No Comments »The NYC Comic-Con was in town so the kids and I engaged in our yearly ritual. They had been looking forward to it since we went last year. The wife tagged along again for her second year. She will never ...
9/11: Ten years later
Sunday, September 11th, 2011 Posted in Lifestyle, politics | No Comments »I can't believe that it has been ten years since the 9/11 terrorist attack. So many things have changed since that day that I sometimes have a hard time remembering how things were prior to the attack. About four years ...
Return to Berlin
Friday, August 12th, 2011 Posted in Lifestyle, Norway, Travel | No Comments »The family and I just returned from a recent trip to Germany. Ski and I took a trip a to Berlin a few years back and enjoyed it so much that this year we decided to take the kids and ...
Norwegian Birthday?
Monday, July 25th, 2011 Posted in Lifestyle, Norway | No Comments »I am not sure that Norwegians understand the whole concept of "birthdays". Usually on birthdays people take it easy and relax. However my wife and mother-in-law got a real kick out of working me on my birthday.
