Thoughts in Veeberland

Most of you know that we went up to NYC this weekend.  We primarily went up to get the car fixed, but Mom and Dad took us out to dinner .  Of course I can’t remember the name of the restaurant but it’s in Astoria and was a fabulous Italian restaurant.  But of course our day had to be more interesting than that…So we go into the city on Saturday to meet up with Sunny and Paul.  I’ll put up some pictures in the gallery somewhere.  It was a very rainy day.  We went out and had lunch at Applebee’s, which was pleasant.  We decided to go down to K-town to have coffee and dessert.  It was rather cold in there and we were pretty wet.  We had our dessert and tried to make our way over to the Empire State Building.  When we got there the security folks there told us that there was zero visibility on the roof.  That was kindof a downer, but so be it.  We made our way back out into the rain. read more »

[originally posted October 8, 2007]

For those of you who have stayed over at our new house, rejoice, rejoice we have fixed the leaky toilet. We ordered two new toilets online from toiletwarehouse.com We got the Toto Drake which was reviewed in this pretty interesting study. The study’s pretty cool, and you should read it. It’s pretty interesting. I’ve already “christened” the toilet and it’s a pretty nice toilet. It takes a little getting used to since it uses so little water. But of course there is more to this story than just the new toilet, thus the title read more »