Sprigler Collective

When I read about Schwarzenegger requesting a loan to keep the state of California running, I had no idea they were going to take it from me personally. Apparently, our Discover card is being used somewhere in California.  Discover called me today to notify me of the charges, and after confirming they weren't from me, they shut down our ...

It's a very enlightening experience when you tear out all of the walls and ceilings from a home that you know for a fact has had some major construction done inside over the course of close to 115 years. Enlightening as in, now we can clearly see why all of the problems we've had with the home since we purchased it almost 5 years ago are actually ...

This morning someone broke into the house and stole most, if not all, of the contractors' tools that are being stored in our house during the rebuilding. Apparently, they had gotten in through the cellar door, which has never had the best lock in the world on it.  From there, they were able to get into the kitchen and unlock the back ...

I walked around town on Saturday during the Historic Home Tour snapping random photos.  I picked a few key photos and took the same shots this morning after the wind storms on Sunday. I tossed them into the Flash viewer I built to do comparisons between DVD snapshots and HD DVD snapshots for a friend, hence the loading text at the ...

We've been collecting photos and uploading them all to Flickr.  I apologize for the mess, the house was clean when we left. Photos from the New Albany Fire Department (Day of Fire)Photos from the New Albany Fire Department (Day After)Photos from ServPro (Day After)Photos from Steven (Day of Fire)Photos from Tabitha (Day After)Photos from ...

By now, most of you have probably heard, our house caught on fire earlier today.  I was in Phoenix for work and scheduled to leave on Saturday, but I'm now home.  So is Tabitha (I was in training when the alarm company called me, and she was actually in the air returning from Grad School). It's not pretty on the inside, plenty of ...

  Well, not rot, as much as termite induced damage.  During the original home inspection prior to the purchase of our home, termite mud tunnels were found in the cellar, leading to a corner of the house where the living room met a small bedroom on the other side.  The only visible damage was the edge of a sill plate, which we had ...

My last haircut was a little over 4 years ago, right before Tabitha and I got married.  With about 27 inches of hair grown on my head since then, my next haircut is currently scheduled for Friday night at the Locks of Love event at the Relay for Life, where my mom is walking in the memory of her brother/my uncle. Feel free to jump over to ...

  After a marathon (there's a pun only a geek will get) session of digitally developing photos, I'm finally caught up.  Word of warning, no photos of Justin in this post, as those are now signed, sealed and delivered and are now in Tabitha's hands, so you can harass her for those (for which she'll probably point you to her Flickr page ...

  First off, yes, Steven and Kim had their joint birthday party days earlier (as was our visitation with baby Justin), and yes, the photos from Emma's birthday party from today are making them up and online well before those.  For some reason, people aren't screaming for photos of Kim and Steven's birthday, why I don't know (well, for ...