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Jesse James and Caves

Missouri is known as the Cave State; we have over 6,000 caves. Besides caves, Missouri also has the most famous outlaw of the Old West: Jesse James. On the surface, it doesn’t seem like those two facts have anything to do with one another. However, every cave you visit in Missouri has a sign stating […]

2010 Hummer H4

“It addresses a real need.” So says David Puncil, head of GM’s flagging Hummer line of sport utility vehicles. “Our customers have given us a lot of feedback, and we’ve listened,” he says. “Over and over again our customers told us they want an oversized mammoth of a vehicle that takes up a lot of […]

A Long Ordeal

Heather went in for gall bladder surgery on Thursday. It was an outpatient procedure, and we were supposed to walk out some time Thursday afternoon. We didn’t leave the hospital until Saturday afternoon. The surgery itself went fine, but recovery took some time due to complications, so we ended up staying quite some time and […]

You killed a man?

A few Christmases ago my daughter received a toy airplane. It was a styrofoam model, designed for flight. Inexplicably, the company had packaged it in one of those irritating hard blister packs. It was no surprise then, when the plane got broken during the process of extricating it from the package.  “I’d like to kill […]

An I.T. Primer

I’m an I.T. guy, and proud of it. I like fixing stuff. However, most of the techniques I use are readily available to you with little to no real training. The following are some basic I.T. tips that will help you, no matter what your skill level, troubleshoot not only computers, but also toasters, cars, […]