Richard & Misti's Blog

We found the “I Lost My Marbles” cache yesterday near the Sparks Marina dog park, and then attended the “Get to Know Geocaching and Your GPS-r Better” event at the Old Little Waldorf Saloon Restaurant near UNR, and also picked up the “Jose’s Keyring” travel bug there while chatting for awhile with Brad and Emilie. [...]

Watched the original “Oceans 11” (1960; Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Angie Dickenson, Cesar Romero, Buddy Lester) tonight on VHS. Not as good as the newer one, in my opinion. I tried watching “Napoleon Dynamite” (2004; Haylie Duff) the other night on DVD at Heather and Dave’s birthday party, but it [...]

Watched “Animal Farm” (1999; Patrick Stewart, Kelsey Grammer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Julia Ormond, Pete Postlethwaite, Sir Peter Ustinov) last night on VHS. Based upon George Orwell’s novel of the same name. Lame.
We tried some new Minute Maid Light Raspberry Passion recently. Very tasty. I also tried some Mary Kitchen 50% Reduced Fat [...]

Misti, the kids, and I found the ‘Treat Cache‘ today. I tried some of the new Vanilla Crème Frosted Mini-Wheats for breakfast this morning – very yummy. I watched “Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within” (2001; Alec Baldwin, Ving Rhames, Donald Sutherland, James Woods) tonight on VHS. Very cool.
The thought occured to me [...]

The new 2005 Federal Poverty Guidelines have finally come out (both the HUD edition, and the DHHS edition). It just doesn’t quite feel like a new year until they do. In fact, I think the feds observe the Chinese New Year, instead – so, Happy Year of the Rooster! This year also [...]

Looked at a couple of interesting, new web services yesterday: Jotspot (a wiki for the masses) and Mappr (a geography-based photo album). Lots of potential. I enjoyed reading the kid’s version of Small Pieces Loosely Joined (‘A Unified Theory of the Web’, or ‘What the Web is For’). Good stuff.
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Misti made some wonderful Twice Baked Potatoes (Great American Recipes, Group 10, Card 14) for dinner last night. Mmmm. I really like the new geocaching.com site upgrades. Looks more professional, and I like the new features!   =)
Watched “Chocolat” (2000; Juliette Binoche, Judi Dench, Johnny Depp, Alfred Molina, John Wood) again last [...]

MS Publisher doesn’t do strikethroughs – weird. McAfee has now moved from weekly updates to daily updates. This is a no-brainer; even Grisoft’s AVG Free Edition does updates more than once a week. Found the ‘Multiplicity‘ multi-cache today at lunch with Dan. This one threw me the first time around since [...]

The LDS online Interactive Church Music Player is awesome – it’ll not only play hymns for you, but also transpose the music on the fly, then let you print out the modified version. Very handy.
Doxology (a short prayer or hymn of praise that extols the glory and majesty of God) is a word with [...]

Misti special-ordered me some Black Cherry Diet Rite all the way from Chicago (since none of the stores around here seem to carry it) – mmmm, very tasty. Misti also made a wonderful dinner last night, Chili Cheese Chicken (Walmart Family Cookbook 2005, page 19), which is hilarious because there isn’t actually any chili [...]

Viewed “Bandits” (2001; Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett) on widescreen DVD last night. Not the best film ever.
Huge Symantec security flaw in the news today. Bleh. Also, another newly discovered browser security flaw (IDN spoofing) that affects every browser EXCEPT Internet Explorer. Scary to see in action, but I’m [...]

It looks like you can also query Google Maps with a set of coordinates directly, but it doesn’t (yet) put a little marker over the point. This has great potential, however. I’ve enjoyed listening to the following albums over the past few days:
“Dummy” by Portishead“Last One Picked” by Superchick“J Lo Tha L-O! The [...]

I love ‘critical updates’ Tuesdays. The new Google Maps looks awesome (and so much easier than Mapquest!). I found how you can actually use it to get coordinates of a point, by centering and zooming in on your point like normal (or by using the cool keyboard shortcuts), then clicking the “Email” link, [...]

‘TV Guardian’ is hilarious on how it substitutes bad words (or supposed bad words) on movies. Normally any reference to a female breast is converted into the word “form”, but awhile ago we laughed and laughed about the French phrase Bon Appétit magically transforming into “Bon Appéform“. Good times.   [...]

We attended Virtual Stake Conference this morning. What will they think of next? The Credit Card Prank (and it’s wacky sequel) that Mike pointed out are simply hilarious!
I like Mike’s new blog for several reasons – it’s more colorful, the frequency of updates gives me something new to read each day, and his [...]

Watched “Dragonfly” (2002; Kevin Costner, Kathy Bates, Linda Hunt, L. Scott Caldwell) last night on VHS. A couple startling parts, but an excellent ending.
We found the “Hallelujah!” micro cache today – a nice little drive. I was finally able to try the Golden Peach flavor of Diet Rite soda tonight, and it’s definitely [...]

Watched “Mona Lisa Smile” (2003; Julia Roberts, Julia Stiles, Kirsten Dunst, Marcia Gay Harden) on DVD last night.
Watched the free “Real Teen Driving” (2004) DVD that Geico (the insurance company) mailed me. Very weird. Speaking of driving, Brad’s NTE (near-ticket experience) is quite humorous. Hang in there, Brad!

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Misti made some Grilled Neptune Sandwiches (Great American Recipes, Group 1, Card 35) for dinner last night, featuring minced clams, baby shrimp, crab meat, Dijon mustard, Parmesan cheese, and a handful of other choice ingredients. A refreshing and tasty seafood delight!
Enjoyed “Strictly Ballroom” (1992; Paul Mercurio, Tara Morice; Directed by Baz Luhrmann) on DVD [...]

More Firefox, Mozilla, and Thunderbird security flaws made the news again yesterday. Time to reinstall browsers – AGAIN. Why can’t they just issue a patch instead of having to reinstall the whole dang browser??
There was a good Reno Gazette-Journal article yesterday on vitamin “megadosing” – of which I’m admittedly guilty. I’m glad [...]