All the Pages Are My Days - the first 12 years
the (archived) online world of Mike Rodriquez 2002-2012
This is an excellent recipe, and the resultant chocolate pound cake is moist with a fine, tight grain and an incredibly rich chocolate flavor. It’s basically the same recipe as the one found in the Cake Bible, though you’ll have to buy the book for all of Beranbaum’s commentary and expanded directions. Chocolate Bread 3 … Read more
Traditional Swedish welcome message adorns the old river bridge entrance to Lindsborg. Four weeks ago we closed the deal for our house in Lindsborg; it’s been four weeks since I’ve posted here. Coincidence? I think not, given all that’s happened in the past month and considering that I am making this posting from Lindsborg. We … Read more
Today we got a call from our loan arranger letting us know the deal was complete and the docs were on their way to be recorded at the county courthouse. Exhausted, our reaction has been somewhat subdued; I don’t think it’s fully sunk in that we in fact, did purchase a house in Lindsborg. I … Read more
We’ve hopefully got the signing/closing date issues resolved, and are scheduled to sign on Friday and close on Monday. It turned out it was just one of those things that can happen when doing a long-distance real-estate transaction. There were multiple parties involved and differing interpretations of effective dates. Anyway, we’ll find out Monday. We’ve … Read more
at least not today. We were supposed to close today, the 7th of September. We signed all the papers on Friday, had them notarized, etc and sent them off for arrival and recording today. Except that that most wonderful of consumer loan companies, US Bank (bad company, no link), screwed up the paperwork so bad … Read more
One of the earliest web pages I created focused on Lindsborg, with a few photos and links to Lindsborg area attractions. Though that page is no longer current, I did rescue this photo of Lindsborg from the air that I created almost 10 years ago. Based on a scan from a local calendar, I added … Read more
Between work, packing and just sorting all the details related to buying a house in Lindsborg, I just haven’t had much time for posting. The last week has been very interesting, stressful, exciting and ultimately fulfilling. We started with a flood insurance quote of 3000 dollars, and ended the week with a quote of 300 … Read more
Things are progressing well with our Lindsborg house purchase; the closing is still scheduled for the end of August. Various minor issues have arisen after the inspections, and they are being resolved; the bankers always have another doc request, but overall I’m pleased with how things are going. Of course, as this dream comes closer … Read more
This weekend marked the closing of one chapter of our lives as we continue preparations to move back to Lindsborg. We took down all of our fish tanks, and like they’ve been for the past 10 years, Brian’s Fish World was there for us. We’ve bought tanks, supplies and accessories from them for the entire … Read more
Night Sky Live is an interesting website that chronicles the efforts of a group whose goal "is to create a useful continuous record of the night sky". The worldwide system is built around small fisheye lens cameras that are controlled by laptop computers and deployed at major observatories around the world. This image above is … Read more