Alan's Place

Thanksgiving has come and gone, and with it the four day weekend. Coming into work the Monday before Thanksgiving is always a relatively joy...

This motley crew scoured the neighborhood for candy treats, scaring many households into submission. Hope you all had a great Halloween as w...

I haven't posted much on the topic of surfing as of late, but that doesn't mean that I haven't been doing my best to get out in ...

Right around New Years Day, I replaced the old oak entertainment center that my wife and I have owned since we were married. It was about 7 ...

For those of us who use linux and have been suffering with Adobe Flash 7 for the last few years, today we finally receive some good news. F...

[ Is this thing on? Hello? Check... 1... 2... 3... ] When we last left our intrepid band of family members, they were leaving the confines o...

After leaving Hood River, we had a relatively short four hour trip to our next destination - Silverdale, WA. My wife's parents live ther...

Breaking camp early in the morning on the 4th of July, we made the 8+ hour drive from Lake Shasta to Hood River, OR . Driving along the bank...

When we last left our hero, he was struggling to figure out why the .net compiled engine was so damn slow . When it comes to diagnosing perf...

I have been using Delphi since version 1.0. When Delphi first appeared on the market, it blew the doors off Visual Basic 3.0. It was a rapid...

Other than camp and eat near-gourmet quality food (if I do say so myself) while at Lake Shasta, what else did we do? For each of the two ful...

Prior to this summer, our family had not driven farther than the distance from Oceanside to San Mateo, to visit my brother and his family up...

About 4 weeks ago, the little league baseball season was wrapping up, and we held our end of the season team party at a park close by. Arou...

Over the weekend, I attended a conference in the suburbs of scenic Cleveland, Ohio. During our stay, we saw a few of the following sights: F...

Ah yes, that wonderful time of the year has come when the water warms up enough to put away the 3mm/2mm wetsuit I've been wearing for th...

Last Sunday was the annual Fish Fry - a gathering of surfers and shapers who enjoy surfing fish surfboards. A "fish" surfboard is ...

Ok, this post is brought to you by the fine folks at Homestarrunner.com . If you can remember the first generation graphical adventure games...

So, I decided that since I had to cut my Christmas / New Year's vacation one week short (due to work) that now seemed as good a time as ...

Well, things have been real quiet around the blog lately because things are anything but quiet in life. Baseball and softball monopolize fo...

The picture above is from Wednesday, December 21st, 2005. With the winter sun lower and to the southwest, I thought the back-lit take-off z...