Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 months ago.
Some of you may have noticed, or even participated in, the current poll here (Should Instant Replay be used in Baseball). What are your thoughts, readers
Personally, I think that the writing is on the wall - it’s coming. Last November the Genera...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 months ago.
We have a few weather radios in our house: one is in our emergency kit; two are builtin to some 2-way radios in the emergency kit; and two more are builtin to a pair of general use 2-way radios I have around the house. You’d think that would be eno...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 months ago.
Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 months ago.
Jay and I went a couple miles outside of Springfield to take a few photos last night. I like this one, but wish that Lightroom could fix barrel distortion. It’s sad when I’m too lazy to open another app to fix this, oh well.
Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 months ago.
The forecasts for today were pretty bleak, full of severe thunderstorms and just overall nasty weather. Thankfully, we ended up with a beautiful June evening full of sun, warmth, and a cool breeze. I was able to take advantage of the respite by spending...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 months ago.
Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 months ago.
I stepped outside briefly last night and took a few quick photos of the sky in hopes of catching some lightning. This should make a decent desktop wallpaper:
Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 months ago.
I guess I shouldn’t have gone to bed at midnight, that would have made the 2am thunderstorm wakeup a lot easier to cope with. That was one very strong storm, at times sounding like it was going to blow the windows out of the house.
Bonus points th...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 months ago.
David enjoyed some Dr. Seuss before his nap today.
Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 months ago.
Great view of the west as the storms were leaving the area.
Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 months ago.
At work this morning we came across Adobe’s accidental moratorium on Trial Downloads:
Wow, pretty drastic. The FAQ reads:
During the month of June 2008, certain product trials that are launched for the first time (regardless of when they were insta...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 months ago.
David got to visit (have staring contests with, whatever you want to call it!) with a few relatives he doesn’t get to see too often. Here he’s studying my grandpa.
Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 months ago.
David says “Thanks Aunt Kate, this is great!”
Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 months ago.
With gas prices continuing to rise, you may be part of the millions of people starting to really watch and track their fuel usage. Or trying to, at least. It’s pretty boring and easy to forget to do, isn’t it
No longer!
A good friend of m...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 2 months ago.
We’ve found recently that David just lights up whenever he touches one of our cats, Ana’s parents’ cats, our my parents’ dog. It’s really fun to watch, he loves it.
Posted by The Johnson Blog 3 months ago.
The local readers are sure to be aware of the survey at SJ-R where 96% of pollees said they’d rather live somewhere other than Springfield. There’s another poll being taken by Just Two Guys before they make a documentary on the subject; so, i...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 3 months ago.
Our day started off by dropping David off at Ana’s parents’ house (thanks Sally!) around 8am followed by a quick drive down to St. Louis for the noon game. Our seats were just 5 short rows up from the field:A beautiful day to celebrate our an...
Posted by The Johnson Blog 3 months ago.
Just a few seconds later, this one went over the wall.
Posted by The Johnson Blog 3 months ago.
I finally see the resemblance…
Me in 1979…
And David…
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