Posted in family, miscellany on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Well. One thing I can say is that I’m no longer burdened by long periods of inactivity. I’ve been thrown in whole hog and am only just now coming up for air.
Working from home, pro: No commute. Duh. Except when I have early morning appointments and have to go downtown anyway. Home for lunch. I [...]
Posted in family, miscellany on April 15, 2008 | No Comments »
A couple of months back, we bought a new dishwasher to replace the one that came with the house. The old one just sort of stopped working one day, so we took that as a sign that, you know, it needed replacing. As it happens, I’d replaced a dishwasher once at our old house. There’s [...]
Posted in books, family, movies on April 7, 2008 | No Comments »
The Pinewood Derby was a great success - our car placed second among the dens, so Pancho left with a nice little red ribbon and a certificate for “Shiniest Car”. Unfortunately, the ribbon, car and certificate got left behind in a bag. Luckily for us, our packmaster found the bag and is holding onto all [...]
Posted in books, faith, family, homeschool on April 3, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I place a great deal of stock in precision in language. Words and how they are used, after all, are a direct manifestation of our thoughts. Once upon a time, I’d wanted to teach English, but a quarter in the College of Education cured me of that. I didn’t even finish it out, dropping the [...]
Posted in family, nature on March 28, 2008 | No Comments »
Today, our guests returned home. The house is a little quieter, and a little emptier, and we are a little sad. But we had a good time and are all looking forward to another gathering of cousins soon. It’s supposed to rain here all weekend, which actually works out fine for me: I need to [...]
Posted in books, faith, family on March 24, 2008 | No Comments »
We hope everyone had a good Easter. We certainly did - lots of visiting relatives, including cousins which bring the brood-count up to 8. The bunny came and left candy, all of us went to a very crowded Mass, then we came home and hunted eggs. We believe all of them have been found; time [...]
Posted in family, food, miscellany on March 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
As expected, the weather here was beautiful so we spent most of the weekend outside.
On Saturday, we pitched one of the tents just to see how to do it. I think I got it up in around 35 minutes, including several un-doings of poles and re-doings of this, that and the other. Having done it [...]
Posted in books, family, food on February 29, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Mirabile dictu, we seem to have potty-trained Lefty in a single day. As luck would have it, we hit it exactly right - offering the potty chair on the same day he seemed most interested in and inclined towards it. Off came the diaper for two days, and we had but one accident. He’s fully [...]
Posted in aquarium, family, miscellany, nerd on February 25, 2008 | No Comments »
A landmark weekend at the Maison du Hobnottle: we’ve begun acquiring our camping stuff. Annual bonuses finally landed at work, and gearing up for family camping trips has been near the top of the to-do list for a little while now. So far we’ve acquired two (2) 6-8 man tents, dual-fuel stove and lantern, sleeping [...]
Posted in aquarium, family, miscellany on February 11, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Bleah.
The water heater started leaking over the weekend. Thankfully, it’s in the garage so all we’ve got is a trickling little stream that leads to the outside. I’d been eyeballing it for some time as the next likely failure, so at least I have the satisfaction of having been correct. Huzzah for me. It hasn’t [...]
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