I’m a big fan of mini-brownie muffins.  They are delightful.  Well I was hungry for cookies and decided to make mini-muffin cookies.

I am happy to report they are quite delicious.

Since we moved into our house I’ve never been really liked  the exhaust fan in our bathroom.  It was old, I’m guessing original to the house (ie 30 years old), and loud.

Last week it decided to not work so well.  Even worse than normal. So I decided now’s the time to replace it!  So today we went to Lowe’s and got a new one.  I was worried about how much work it may be.  I read some things online and it looked kind of tough.

But thankfully enough, and due to some measuring before hand, the one we bought was a perfect fit in the old spot.  So after crawling around the attic, finding the stuff, and ripping it out, putting the new one in, I was done!  It wasn’t so bad actually, and only took about an hour and a half or so.  It fit right into the exhaust pipe out of the ceiling, and all is well.

After trying it out it works much better than the other one ever did, and it is pretty quiet.  Not the most quiet, but the super quiet ones were way more expensive and would have required a lot more work.

So that’s just a snap shot of our weekend.  Now it’s time to get ready for bed.  More sleep is in order.

It’s a great day out of the year!

For those of you who don’t follow me on Twitter, you know who you are, you may not know this.  Recently I was appointed to the Planning and Zoning Commission in Blaine.  I was appointed by the Mayor with confirmation by the City Council.

It’s a pretty exciting thing.  It’s a volunteer position, which is fine.  One night a month, with some hours reviewing the agenda and getting ready for the meeting.  It’s a great step on my career path and moves me along toward my future goals.

If you want to learn a little bit about the Blaine Planning and Zoning Comission you can check out their website. They have vido archives of the meeting and you can even stream it live.  So check out this site and you can watch me being sworn into office at 7.

It’s the start of a new quarter, actually the end of the first week of the new quarter, for me and I thought I’d save some money by not buying the books but just getting them from the library.  Smart move.  Except one of the books from the library was the third edition and the required one was the eighth.  Turns out there’s a fair amount wrong.

So I look on half.com and see the book is really spending, but I can buy the e-book version from the campus book store for cheaper than half.com.  A pretty good deal right?  Almost.

Turns out when I paid $110 for the e-book I didn’t actually buy the book.  I buy the rights to read it for 180 days.  That’s right, after that I have the book no more.  That really sucks.  It’s a fair amount of money for not owning something.

Besides the crazy price and not owning it, I think it’s a great feature.  I can read the book from any computer, highlight text, search terms, and make notes.  It’s very useful and it’ll be a lot easier to go back and find my notes and do the necessary work from the readings.

Granted, not all ebooks are merely “rentals” but the way this one is set up it is merely renting.  I guess this book is a wash.  Hopefully the benefits continue to outweigh the negatives.