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Heather remarked at dinner tonight (at the Olive Garden - thanks Wightmans, we've got 7 more dinners at this rate to celebrate our anniversary) that we are a rich family: we now own two cars and two houses. I did realize that some people spend more on their cars than we spent on our... (More)

Posted by jondaley on June 23, 2009, 8:21 pm
Category: Reviews

Chinese Perspective on Obama's Election

I keep forgetting to post this. A friend who currently lives in China wrote: It has been interesting to hear some of my former students express excitement and intrigue about the presidency of Barack Obama. The reason it has captured their attention is because it proves to them... (More)

Posted by jondaley on June 18, 2009, 2:15 pm
Category: Reviews

In Other News

We are the happy recipients of two used swingsets - one from a family at church and one from the next door neighbors. It is loads of fun and we're planning on building monkey bars between the two sets. Recently, when I was reading one of our storybooks about Noah and the flood,... (More)

Posted by joyful on June 12, 2009, 8:22 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah

Lyme Daley

After we hear others talking about ticks everywhere, we hadn't seen any at all in our yard. And then Jonathan gets Lyme Disease. He had a fever and slept all day for two days, and then he was better so we didn't think anything of it. A few days later, he gets this red rash on... (More)

Posted by joyful on June 12, 2009, 7:51 pm
Category: Jonathan

Blog Statistics

Tom asked for some statistics for his blog, and I figured I might as well look them up for mine while I was at it. I am not particularly surprised by the results, so perhaps not worth posting, but in case anyone thought the world was interested about our kids... ... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 29, 2009, 2:46 pm
Category: Reviews

Hugging...

I've noticed the "kids" at church (in quotes, since folks are quite sure where to place me, the "adults" say I'm a kid, and the "kids" say I'm adult (I think primarily since I'm married and have kids of my own)) hug more than I am used to, and I had internally... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 29, 2009, 10:44 am
Category: Reviews

Liberal or Conservative?

I guess I fail the test , since I answered "no" to both questions, though I suppose Brad Andresen from college (the one who always said of me, "You're more liberal than you think you are.") would be happy to hear that I'd be more likely to think it alright to slap my dad... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 29, 2009, 10:39 am
Category: Reviews

Facebook Outage

So, I wonder if there is going to be one of those statistics published: "Facebook down for X minutes - office productivity improved 500%"... (More)

Posted by jondaley on May 29, 2009, 10:16 am
Category: Internet

Free Range Kids: One Hundred Years Ago

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

Another Word Problem

If you start a pot boiling at 9:55PM (knowing that you will be up for a while) to hard boil eggs for the following day and don't set a timer, how long will it take before you go back to the kitchen to turn off the stove? Your answer should be written in terms of: E: Number of... (More)

Posted by jondaley on April 19, 2009, 10:54 pm
Category: Reviews

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

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

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