Evidently, if you're a loaded retiree living in Chicago and watching late night infomercials, Officer Ponch Poncherello will entice you to buy land in Hot Springs Village. Watch the video here.



This answers so many questions. All the old people moving in down here and driving those big old Pontiacs and Towncars - all the Yankees with the northern accent who you notice ahead of you in line at Subway being rude and demanding. Eric Estrada is to blame.

I've been hearing much talk lately over this whole web 2.0 thing. Let me tell you, upcoming web technology is much more exciting to me than it should be. And I won't bore you any with details. I'm a nerd. I'll go do my nerd thing while you guys do real work that doesn't involve sitting in a chair for 8 hours every day.

However, things around this site are going to change a bit over the next weeks. Introducing the spectacular fantazmotron Thisisdrew 2.0:



Click on that thing for the bigger version.

I'm just working on the design, look and feel right now. This work usually takes place at night while not customarily watching Conan O'Brien, after the wife is asleep, and after I've given the weiner dogs their nightly tranqulizer injections.

Boy, have I been neglecting this site. She's in bad need of repair as well. All this old table structure, the bland look and feel. Projects I spend an hour on at work are alot better. Several times I've had the notion of putting her down; to sleep; out of her misery and neglect. Who knows. Still some good archives. Hard to believe I've had a weblog since December of 2000.

Lately though, I've been adding neat design and work related things that I come across to a different weblog that was thrown together on a whim a few months back. Its at designfornoreason.blogspot.com. Lots of little neat things there - banter about design, tools, interesting technology etc..

I just didn't feel like that kind of stuff belonged here. People reading this blog (mostly just family and friends, and only when they get really bored) are necessarily concerned with that kind of material anyway, so I don't want to include it here.

I've also started using del.icio.us. Wow is it helpful and powerful. All the bookmarks I've made are here: http://del.icio.us/thisisdrew, and I plan on using it a great deal in the future. Its exciting to hear about web browsers that will possibly sync your bookmarks to your del.icio.us account. I can't wait for that.

I can feel a big change coming on. Life has been that way for awhile; alot of same old nothing that piles up, builds and builds until something drastic shakes everything up into something else. Something new.

I like our house more and more as we work on it. An important part of "working on" your house is that you try work on it well. Home improvements should hopefully be real "improvements" and not just crap you do to your house that make its resale value go down. Yes, we live in Arkansas, and no, that doesn't mean we're tearing down a wall and attaching a 70s model camper to our house, but I'm a bit concerned about some of our recent projects.

Dad was impressed on first glance with the expanding of our guest bedroom closet, but upon closer inspection I could sense his disappointment and discern his "my son is not a carpenter, and is trying to ruin his home, one bedroom at a time" look on his face without him having to say anything. Long story short, dad helped me recover from having a new closet that had the possibility of not being very attractive.

DeAnja's home improvement ideas always sound so simple at first, but any kind of remodeling work usually explodes into hundreds of horrible nightmares and countless visits to the Home Depot.

She needs a better contractor.