Stephen Yeargin

The words “unseasonably __” have come to mean little so far this year, but they are being tossed around anyway. We have had two or three snowy/icy days lately that brought the city to its knees (or out to play, depending on your perspective). And today, in February, we had 60 degrees and sunny without [...]

I have learned an important (and somewhat expensive) lesson about buying appliances. Nothing to do with the brands or features, but rather the simple engineering problem of an item of a fixed size needing to fit into a fixed size space. If the space is smaller than the item, even by a little, one of [...]

I’m writing this on my phone. Not because I particularly enjoy the idea of pecking away on a mblile device, rather I am fairly sure my Mac mini may have burned through its second harddrive in as many years. Oddly, I am not too concerned. I had just pulled my Home folder to the spare [...]

I probably need to pack. At least, I need to keep packing. It is not like I need much of a reminder — our apartment is covered in bins, boxes and bags. Everywhere I turn there is something that I could trip over, or eye wearily knowing there are three floors below us before that [...]

It was still there on Thursday morning as I wearily walked to my car, but the warmer weather of the last few days finally put away the remains of the tiny snowman the kids downstairs had built next to the bush. We had all survived the Great Flurry of 2010, one that only kept me [...]

I have had a string of great weekends out with friends. So much so that I am starting to wonder if there is an impending drought of socializing on the horizon. We have met up with folks at basketball games, bars and restaurants — many of whom we have not seen in months and years. [...]

It finally caught up to me. I can usually expect it a few days before Christmas, whether it is from walking around a mall listening to Kenny G soundalikes piped over bustling shoppers, or a made-for-TV special with melodramatic acting about the “true meaning of Christmas”. This year, it caught me halfway through the “Little [...]

The time change could not have come at a better time. That extra hour last night gave flight to a productive Sunday, with a trip to church and tying up loose ends for projects at work. In addition to the minor debt owed to the inventors of Daylight Saving Time (most people today curse them [...]

The car door could really use some WD-40. I know this to be the case because one late evening I stepped out into our parking lot and Samantha heard it from our fourth floor apartment. It was shrill enough that when I had my emissions tested, the technician acted as if he were afraid it [...]

For those who know Samantha and I, the word “vacation” is barely in our vocabulary, other than a simple way of describing the reason we are not showing up for work on a particular day. Big trips to exotic locales are just not the way we like to blow spend our money. So when the [...]