Archives: October2009

• A Haunting We Will Go

  It’s almost Halloween, a holiday I have previously stated I don’t care much for, except for the candy. Well, over here where we live, they do some pretty cool things for the kids.
  Thursday night we went downtown to the ” Building For Kids” formerly the Appleton Childrens Museum. It’s part of  the City Center which is an entire block of buildings tied together by a indoor atrium.
  Admission was free and after entering, the kids got to play  games on the [...]

• Random Somethingness

  From time to time, “Playing In Quicksand” is going to be less a well thought out, coherent, single item collection and more a rambling discourse (hopefully still coherent) about any number for things. Hang on, here we go.
  This past week at work I was involved in a “Lean” event. For the uninitiated, my employer subscribes to the practice of lean manufacturing, a process by which waste is driven out of a particular process and a more efficient and cost effective [...]

• Tis’ The Season

  For anyone who may read this and not know me or my family, you should know that we live in Wisconsin. Now, Wisconsin is known for many things. Cheese, cows, and all things dairy, the Green Bay Packers, and of course the weather. Heck, most of the national media can’t talk about the Packers without references to the “frozen tundra”.
  In Wisconsin, there are also many sayings about the weather. The one that comes to mind is “if you don’t like [...]