Happy Things Archive

Blog Housekeeping

 
I’m sure you’ll notice that I’m changing quite a few things around here.  The designer in me says I should do this in a local environment and wait to do a big reveal later

Texan Blog Stats

 
I’ve had this blog for going on three years now, and it’s been through some changes.  At first I wrote about whatever I wanted, which was fun but hard to really build an audience

Day 24 – Your Best Riding Friend

 
My blog got severely hacked on Friday night, so it’s been pretty interesting around here. I had to delete a ton of plugins and stuff, and it’s not 100% up to snuff yet. There’s

My Favorite Christmas Ornaments

 
Being the shamateur photographer that I am, my mantra is the deeper the depth of field… the nicer the photograph  So I pulled out my 1.8 lens and took some photos of some of

My Virtual Sunday

 
One might say that today was not a stellar achievement in my productivity, but I think it depends on how you look at it. With our ever growing technology base, gadgets and online worlds

Another one lost to Apple

 
Let me tell you a story about me and the iPad. When apple first released the iPad I laughed. “It’s a big iPhone for $800!” I would say and scoff at the people who

This weekend I got a head cold and my 2nd crush on a gay man

 
Tim is in Chicago all weekend, which meant I created a list of ambitious plans to do in his absence.  This list included (in no particular order) finish painting the doors and decks of

Happy Things: Heartsy.me

 
I discovered something awesome today – Heartsy.me. If you’re a fan of hand made goods and etsy vendors and like the daily deals, then go sign-up for Heartsy now.  It’s a groupon type interface,

Happy Things: Mr. Bear Felt Keyrings

 
So pretty much the only good thing about my old job was the people there.  For such a shitty company, it was filled with fun, intelligent and creative people.  Case in point: Are they