Adventures of a Milwaukee family.

  • Home buying: The first visits

    We’re currently in the look-at-all-the-homes-all-the-time phase of home buying. There are a handful of neighborhoods where we can afford many homes, a few where we can afford some homes, and many neighborhoods where we can afford the occasional home. This weekend we learned a little more about what that spectrum means. We looked at six houses this…

  • What we’ve learned shopping for a home

    We bought a car last year and it was basically the dumbest thing ever. Sure, we got a car but we felt swindled. The dealer didn’t take the time to explain anything to us and we ended up getting a good but no great deal. So far buying a house has been different. We’re barely…

  • We go outside

    About nine months ago, we finally moved to Denver. One of the first things we did was hit the trails, and writing down where we were going, how far, and what we were doing there. Starting with a hike in El Dorado Canyon State Park where our footwear didn’t quite fit the bill, up through…

  • Moar HTTPS!

    About 13 months ago we bought an SSL certificate for harmsboone.org. Recently we upgraded our SSL configuration for harmsboone.org and all our subdomains (except wedding.harmsboone.org, we’ll get there). Now you can browse Greg and Danielle’s blogs,and Danielle’s new writing project, 1000 Wednesdays, with confidence that nobody, not the government, not your internet service provider, not your crazy…

  • It’s HTTPS, Dang it!

    Inspired by some of the work I’m doing at my new gig where we are an all https shop, I took the $15 plunge and bought a ssl certificate this morning for HarmsBoone.org. Honestly, given how easy it is these days on top of security concerns, Google giving preferential treatment to HTTPS sites, and the NY…

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