Life Near an Iowa Cornfield 5-30-2009

30 May 2009

My presence online has been greatly diminished this month.  It has been a hectic month for the VS household.  Mrs. VS has begun  the weekly chemo treatments (see Day 146 for…

Little Dutch Can… a Setting for Your Game?

19 May 200916 May 2009

I own my own business.  I run a redemption center in north central Iowa.  Iowa has a nickle deposit law on all carbonated and alcoholic beverage containers.  redeem the deposit on…

Heigh-ho Heigh-ho, It’s off to work I go…

30 Apr 2009

Monday, April 27 my mother brought over a help wanted ad.  The paper in Conrad, Iowa was in need of a graphic artist/ad-man.  Since that is what my degree is…

Life Near an Iowan Cornfield 3-22-09

22 Mar 2009

Busy busy busy..... After starting off majorly behind at work on Monday, I thought I'd take just pre-counted cans and estimates while I worked on Saturday's backlog.  So many cans came…

Life near an Iowa cornfield: special crappy edition

16 Mar 2009

The first bit is a good news/bad news scenario.  I've been so busy at work that I no longer have room inside the building to store inventory.  I run a…

Life Near an Iowa Cornfield: mid-March

15 Mar 200914 Mar 2009

I've been focusing a little more on my RPG blogs recently.  Part of that is due to a lack of news about Mrs. VS, part of that is due to…

Life Near an Iowa Cornfield

21 Feb 200921 Feb 2009

Randomness from the Vulcan Stev Family: Mrs. VS had one of the drains removed yesterday.  Chemo starts as soon as the second one comes out.  She is NOT looking forward…

Long Day at Work

4 Feb 2009

January has been both a good month and a bad month at Little Dutch Can.  I've been backlogged due to the amount of time I've spent away from work caring…

Ending a crappy month with fizzle.

31 Jan 2009

Today was supposed to be a calm relaxing day.  We shut down the can company for a family day together.  PIT#1's High School show choir was preforming in Sumner at…