on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam

A picture of Earth as told by the rest of the galaxy.  This definitely helps put things into perspective: from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:PaleBlueDot.jpg In a commencement address delivered May 11, 1996, Sagan related his thoughts on the deeper meaning of the photograph: “Consider again that dot. That’s here, that’s home, that’s us. On it everyone you love, [...]

World Water Day

Great pictures from The Big Picture (one of my favorite sites) to celebrate World Water Day.  We take it for granted living so close to Lake Michigan but this will be the next resource that wars are fought against.  Check out the pictures at: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/03/water.html You can also get a free online version of National [...]

Deals of the Day

I keep forgetting to link this so doing now. Lifehackers Gadget and Gear deals of the day are usually pretty solid. Not sure if the URL changes but you can search for deals on their site. current one is at http://lifehacker.com/5488694/gadget-and-gear-deals-of-the-day You can also just plug in lifehackers to your RSS feed reader as well.

where have you been?

Sorry I know I have been bad and it has been almost a year since I posted last here.  Most of our updates, etc were via Microblogging (twitter) or Facebook so I will try and keep up better now here as well.  Work is work, school is school and everyone is happy and healthy.  Winter [...]

Spring Break

Spring has sprung around here it will look a lot like the picture above (with the cherry trees) pretty soon around here. For the record that picture is taken around the corner from our house with our camera so it is geographically correct.  Krissy wanted me to change it for Winter and never got around [...]

Inauguration

Krissy and I flew out for the Inauguration last week in DC and spent the week with the Frillicis.  We had an amazing time and it was definitely a life changing experience.  It was awesome to spend some much time with Vince, Chris and Willa and it is always great to reconnect with such good [...]

Winter, Skiing and Inauguration

It has been a fun Winter so far and we have been on the road quite a bit.  We visited friends and families over the holidays so the kids got to see a lot of different places.  We were able to head down to my parents after the holidays and we went down to Indianapolis [...]

Fall Into Winter

I have been lazy, lazy, lazy so I apologize.  Sorry for the delay in updates and I will try harder.  Right now I am on my way back from St Louis again and got stuck in Detroit because of snow.  Very early in the year for this but you play the hand you are dealt.  [...]

Family, Kindergarten and the Summer winds down

Summer is winding down in TC now and it really went too fast.  The weather still has been great but with the kids heading off to school (started Kindergarten last week), fall is now setting in.  Football season has started and it doesn’t look like the Spartans are going to shine.  We are still going [...]

bikes, skateboards, swimming oh my

I guess this is turning into the summer of the X-Games at the kernan household.  We just joined the Grand Traverse Resort so we have been spending a lot of time swimming and I am teaching the family how to play tennis.  The Big news this week is Jack has decided that it is time [...]