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Would you send your nine-year-old on a New York City subway by himself? Would you send him on a horse from Oklahoma to New Mexico and back by way of the deserts of Texas - taking his five-year-old brother along? It can be frustrating sifting through the chaff at the children's... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 23, 2009, 7:21 am
Category: Reviews

Quotes and More

4/10 - Noah comes up to me, winking, and says, "Mommy, me one eye!" It was hilarious. (I couldn't wink until first grade.) 4/11 - Guess which story this is, by Noah: "Let me in. No, no, no. Blow up house!" 4/20 - What does Noah say when... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 20, 2009, 6:43 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith

Coloring, Colors, Teeth

3/29 - Jonathan was upstairs quietly playing for a very long time. When he finally came down, he showed us what he had been working on the whole time. It was a completely filled in color-by-number page. He read the colors all by himself to see which one went with which... (More)

Posted by joyful on April 4, 2009, 2:30 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith

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

New Printer: HP LaserJet 1006. Installed on Linux CUPS and Networked to Windows XP

Our printer finally died. Or actually, it didn't really die, but required more money, so I decided (somewhat hesitantly, since the HP Laserjet 6L is the best printer ever made, according to most sources) to replace it. The 6L lasted 13 years , so the longest lasting printer I've... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 25, 2009, 11:44 am
Category: Reviews

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

Jonathan's Understanding of Taxes

We finished our taxes today, and the kids were around while we were doing it, and then we went out to the Olive Garden, since we didn't feel like cooking at 8PM when we finished the taxes. On the way home, we were talking about how much the meal cost (Jonathan has various data points on... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 20, 2009, 10:16 pm
Category: Jonathan

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

Confused...

Most of you who know me realize that I don't hardly pay any attention to news, and particularly since I started working from home, I can't even get my daily news reports from conversations in the common area. So, I generally figure I don't know most of what is "going on" in the... (More)

Posted by jondaley on March 17, 2009, 11:09 pm
Category: Reviews

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

Cygwin Update: Stuff Broken

Cygwin is one of the packages that seems to often break when I upgrade it. In their defense, it is a large collection of packages, so presumably hard to get everything right in all circumstances. I run Debian (testing) on my Linux systems, and I rarely have any issues during... (More)

Posted by jondaley on February 23, 2009, 11:09 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