Posted in faith, miscellany on March 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
…has a peculiar sense of timing (the storyline begins here). I mean, really. The week before Holy Week? At least he can rest assured that no one is busy writing a fatwah against him.
Posted in miscellany on March 12, 2008 | No Comments »
Blogging will be light - I’m out and about this week on various field trips.
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 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 books, miscellany on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
R.R. Reno writes about books - the ones that matter, and why.
Books are like minerals, buried and waiting to be found. They lie in dusty corners of used books shops or in the virtual nooks and crannies of online megastores or in remote library stacks—or in unread piles at home. Not all are precious. In [...]
Posted in books, miscellany on February 15, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m on the last chapter of Poetry and Prose in the Sixteenth Century, and will probably revisit The Faerie Queene for yet another attempt. I’ve never made it more than partway through, but really want to try and finish it now that I have some historical and literary context. One of the things I’ve discovered [...]
Posted in faith, miscellany on February 13, 2008 | No Comments »
Welp, the water heater is fixed. Which is to say that it’s been replaced. My plans for an 80 gallon monster (The “Old Faithful 9000″ 
were foiled by our gas lines, venting, indeed, our entire garage being too small to accommodate it. The plumbers - a local shop that’s done work for us in the [...]
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 [...]
Posted in books, brewing, family, food, miscellany on February 8, 2008 | No Comments »
We I just realized the other night that things are getting pretty medieval around here. The kids are studying the medieval period for history. E. has started the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, and I’m about halfway through Pillars of the Earth. There’s mead brewing in the closet, and we’re counting the days until we can get [...]
Posted in miscellany on February 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A recent study by two Australian researchers has found that pregnant women do experience a slight loss of memory — and in many cases, the forgetfulness continues after birth.The memory loss is subtle, and usually involves unfamiliar or demanding tasks, Dr. Julie Henry, one of the authors of the study, told CNN on Tuesday.
Pregnancy does [...]
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