Archive for December, 2008

Holiday Snacks

// December 17th, 2008 // No Comments » // Brad's Life

I love this time of the year.  Jen made chocolate-covered pretzels and cranberry pumpkin bread. Yum. :)

(PS – I did the sprinkles.)




Tonight our small group delivers gifts to our ‘adopted family’ for Christmas. They are from Jen’s school. A mom and 5 kids. We had fun picking out the gifts and wrapping them!


Graphs of life

// December 16th, 2008 // No Comments » // Brad's Life

The analytic side of me has been pretty active lately. Looking at numbers and trends of my life. Here are a few that have peaked my interest lately.

1) Miles per gallon. I talked about FuelFrog back in July. I’ve been using it for 7 months now, and here is the interesting trend. As the cost of gasoline decreases, so does my miles per gallon. I become less sensitive to the cost of driving efficiently, and it also costs less to not worry about it. My tanks of gas have been around $16 instead of $40 lately. So if I get 20 less miles on a tank, it’s costing me $1.80, not $4.25. I can justify the few extra minutes at home every day to drive like that. :)

MPG vs. Gas Cost

2) My word cloud from Twitter.  Twitter is pretty much engrained into my life.  Chatting with friends, updates on what I am doing, etc.  I’ve updated about 15 times a day through 2008, so this is a pretty good look into my life through 2008. The bigger the word is, the more it was used.  I’m glad the big words are things like “good”, “great”, “think”, “thanks”, “love”, “time”.  Better than “hate”, “sucks”, etc., right? :)

Oh hai, Blog.

// December 12th, 2008 // No Comments » // Uncategorized

It’s cold out and I haven’t blogged much here lately. Sorry.

Over Thanksgiving we went with Jen’s family to Mexico and it was extremely warm and awesome. Here are some photos.

Last weekend Howard came to visit us.  More on that here.

Life is good.  Need to survive one more week of work to make it to Christmas Break, then I have about 23 days off.  I need that.  Lots of exciting stuff going on in life right now, but breaks are always good.

Talk to ya later. :)

PS – Jen and I started dating 6 years ago tonight. CRAZY! Crazy awesome, that is. Time for a date night!