The UltraTech Zone

Ah, November...  The month where we (at least in the good ol' US of A) remember to be thankful. I have a great deal to be thankful for -- so much so, that I haven't had a moment to breathe this month until this past weekend.  I've had several of these busy spurts throughout the year, but I really can't complain about them. I have a lot ...

This summer, in addition to a vacation at Cape May with my extended family, we also went to Shepherd Lake twice (in June and August), and we had our annual church camp-out at Stokes State Forest.  All in all, we had ourselves some good times this summer. The past few times we've gone to Shepherd Lake, I've rented row boats, which has proved ...

Generally speaking, I don't like to drive for more than 2 or 3 hours at a time.   Maybe even 4. Somehow, various family members (primarily my wife) have managed to convince me to take far lengthier trips by car over the past 12 months or so. For instance, last year in June, we drove down to Georgia -- with the kids -- to visit my wife's ...

We had a fun time camping this weekend.   Except for a little rain on Saturday afternoon, the weather was gorgeous, and we even got to see a good bit of stars on Friday and Saturday night.  Friday night was a bit better, because it was less hazy. This was our church's annual Spiritual Retreat weekend, and it was especially ...

This weekend, we're going camping.  We, as in my entire family.   Actually, to be more precise, every year, our church has one Spiritual Retreat Weekend where we go off to the woods for a nice, semi-quiet time with nature.   I say ''semi-quiet'' because we bring the young-uns with us, and some of them are adept at ...