For all you last minute shoppers…

I figured out how Josh can do Christmas on a budget next year.

Anyone else use 30Boxes?

Does anyone that reads this site use 30Boxes.com?  I’ve never been really big on online calendars, but this one is pretty awesome.  Throw in a decent to-do list, and some killer web aggregation and sharing action, and I’m hooked.  The only thing that would make it better would be if I could hook more people into it.  You can find my 30 boxes info here.

We own more snow and dirt!

Yet another thing that I’ve been delinquent in mentioning: Rhya and I officially own more dirt and snow! We closed on the lot last Friday, and then it immediately started to warm up. No word yet on when excavating will commence (we were told there are a couple people in front of us), but we’re excited nonetheless!

Here’s our dirt! – (It’s actually where the road intersects the horseshoe…yahoo is off a bit, but google can’t even find it)

Class A is A-OK with Ryno on ChicagoSports.com

Class A is A-OK with Ryno on ChicagoSports.com

This has been out for a while, but I’m still excited about it.  I think this is one year that I’ll make going to opening day in P-town a priority.

It’s Christmas time

Although the Christmas tree has been relegated to the office this year, Rhya did a lot of hard work revamping it this year. We still have our traditional ornaments and keepsakes, but Rhya got some ribbon, flowers, and coordinated ornaments, and it really made the tree nice. I think the pictures on Flickr were taken before the family ornaments were put on, but you can get the general idea.

Check out the sweet Handlebars

I reluctantly shaved my beard two weeks ago in preparation for some family pictures. And, while I don’t really have any after pictures, I got this sweet in-the-middle pic. Rhya wasn’t so keen on the handlebars, but between you and me, I think she’s worried about all the hot chicks this bad boy would have attracted.

New (Virtual) Home

mattandrhya.com has a new home.  Rhya and I have been fighting spotty internet service for a couple weeks now, and I was frankly pretty sick of battling the VMWare session that the website lived on.  So, we’ve now moved the website over to the free (I’m cheap) hosting site wordpress.com.  As you can see, this isn’t a drastic change to the site as it existed before, and I don’t think anyone needs to update their feeds.

 Teaser Alert:  We’ve got some pretty cute videos of Lindy to put up….

Snow Day!

We got over a foot of snow yesterday, so Rhya bundled up Lindy tight, and we took her out on a sled that I had gotten the night before. I’m not sure what she thought of all of it, but I think she was a bit docile because of the fact she was bundled up so much. I, on the other hand, was stoked, because it was my break from shoveling my driveway. It took probably about 3 1/2 – 4 hrs. when all is said and done, and I beat the city road crew, as they still haven’t cleared our streets!