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So, I know you can't believe anything you read in a newspaper, but if the newspaper calls you and tells you something, then can you believe it? How about if both Pittsburgh newspapers call? We've heard that Judy was acquitted of two of the three charges brought against her, but... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 23, 2009, 4:27 pm
Category: Isaac

It's Ok, Grandma. She's Fine.

I was adding more materials to our garden beds, and wanted to mix it in by hand. It doesn't work so well to lean over with Faith in the backpack, so I set her down on the ground behind me. Well, that ground was not so level. She went tumbling over, and the worst part was that... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 27, 2009, 7:58 pm
Category: Faith

Crawling! and more

3/6 - Jonathan beat Heather in chess, fair and square! 3/18 - Noah said, "I love you" for the first time. It was to Faith. Later that day, he said it again to Daddy as he was leaving to go shopping. He has yet to say it to me, but I know it will come.... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 27, 2009, 8:37 am
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith

2008 Taxes

I haven't looked at how much time it took us to do taxes this year - I thought we were doing pretty well, time-wise, until we blew 8 hours or so today finishing them off (or is it them finishing us off, I'm not sure which...) I noticed a number of places where the strange, complicated... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 20, 2009, 10:21 pm
Category: Reviews

Gardening

I've been mentioning my garden doings on Serina's blog and in private emails with her, and I thought I'd compile and post the relevant info here. March 15: Whoohoo! I just placed my order with fedco , and we’ve been preparing our squares out front. Jon just... (More)

Posted by joyful on March 18, 2009, 6:41 pm
Category: General

News I Forgot to Mention

Speaking of news, I forgot to post here that the closing arguments for Judy's trial are scheduled for tomorrow, and I'll be heading to Pittsburgh to hang out with folks who will be there in her support. Of course, this might be the first time a scheduled meeting actually happened when it... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 17, 2009, 11:41 pm
Category: Isaac

Arizona Pictures

I guess we haven't written about Arizona yet, so that'll come later, but Heather posted the pictures today, but I hadn't gotten around to making the panoramic collection yet, so I just did that. For those of you snappy readers/watchers, you'll probably want to check out the pictures... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 12, 2009, 10:41 pm
Category: Reviews

Stuff again

2/10 or earlier - Faith can transfer an item from one hand to the other. 2/10 - Jonathan, studying a penny, "This coin says 1 - 9 - 9 - 9. That's super long ago!" (I knew my kids would think anything before 2000 was ancient history.) Since coming home from... (More)

Posted by joyful on February 26, 2009, 2:39 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith

Thinking In "Blog"? Nope. But Thinking In Code? Yes.

Some people have been talking about whether they think in blogging, as in: "this is so much fun, I should blog about it", or, "look how cute the kids are being, I should grab a camera so I can post it on flickr", etc. I didn't particularly relate to that, but this... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 25, 2009, 12:35 pm
Category: Programming

Installing clusterssh on Cygwin

Since I am a lazy Debian user, I am not used to compiling things from source. (sidenote: It is interesting to me how many people from other distributions are fairly used to mucking around in source code, spending hours working on getting a simple package installed) But, clusterssh... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 23, 2009, 11:49 am
Category: Reviews

Recovery Rebate Calculator (AKA, Will the IRS Give Me Any More Money?)

The IRS hasn't published their calculator yet, and I have been reading about lots of people trying to figure out what to do with line 70 on their 1040 (ie. the famous RRC that is causing probably more time wasted than was worth the money that was sent out last year. So, I wrote a... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 17, 2009, 1:41 pm
Category: Programming

House Work on Carroll Street

Heather and I spent several days over the last week at our old house, cleaning and fixing various things that our previous tenants broke. It is pretty annoying to have people totally not care about your property, and live in pretty disgusting conditions, presumably to get back at me for... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 11, 2009, 11:38 pm
Category: Reviews

This One's For Asher

It makes me think of Asher every time. 2009-01-28_05_faith_kick_leg_to_bounce.avi (More)

Posted by joyful on February 8, 2009, 6:45 pm
Category: Faith

$0.01 Credit Card Charge and Cancelling a Card Due to "Low Use"

Mydad had mentioned a news article story a month ago about some company charging a whole bunch of people $.01 each on their credit cards; presumably with the thought that no one would complain about a $.01 charge, and since they charged a million people or something, they made a bunch of... (More)

Posted by jondaley on January 26, 2009, 3:55 pm
Category: Reviews

Switzerland: Back to the USA (12 Jan 2009)

Very early in the morning, we got up, had breakfast and said goodbye to Sarah (all the other Dutlers said goodbye the night before.) Janet and Stephan came to pick us up and we crammed all ourselves and stuff into the mini-minivan. They took us to the Basel airport where we spent quite... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 18, 2009, 10:22 am
Category: Reviews