Let’s hope some people go to jail over this

It’s an odd feeling getting a sense of relief that your kid has an allergy to peanuts, but that’s actually what has happened.  As I’m sure you’ve heard, there’s a huge recall of peanut butter products.  (You can find the list at the FDA website.)  Now I just read this article this evening and found [...]

At least the neighborhood didn’t blow up :)

You’d think that they wouldn’t put a gas main in an area where a snow plow would even have a chance of running into it. Apparently that wasn’t the case here. So I guess it’s good that we didn’t have an explosion in our neighborhood this morning.
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/12/hanover-park-gas-main-street-closing.html

I guess the saying is true…

So I bought a bike over the weekend and wasn’t really sure what to expect when I got on it.  I was pretty sure that I remembered how to ride.  It turns out that even though I hadn’t ridden a bike in probably 15 years or more, I got right on my new bike and [...]

Yes, me too

Perhaps you could say that I was feeling left out since Jessie started her own blog (psychiceggplant.blogspot.com) on top of the family blog we already have (atchisonclan.com). I guess I just felt like getting my own place to talk about some more geeky stuff than the family blog normally has. Since we’re using [...]