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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

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

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

Stuff

1/23 - Faith's matching lower tooth came in. It looks like she's teething again, maybe some top teeth on their way. She, like Noah my other early teether, is interested in solid foods already. Jonathan bought her (with his own money) some little cereal pieces, the kind that dissolve... (More)

Posted by joyful on February 7, 2009, 8:51 pm
Category: Jonathan, Noah, Faith

Health Insurance Issues for the Self-Employed

I thought I had written about this before, but I can't find it, so maybe we just talked about it over email. We purchased health insurance through Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield when I first started working for myself. It was the same plan as we had when workingfor Dynavox, though... (More)

Posted by jondaley on January 18, 2009, 9:35 am
Category: Reviews

Switzerland: Wedding! (03 Jan 2009)

I woke up around 6am (with alarm) and got ready to go to Valda's to get my hair done. I got myself some yummy muesli with yogurt and sat down in the living room to eat, only to see the clock and note that I needed to leave in only a few minutes. I gulped a few more mouthfuls as I put my... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 17, 2009, 7:57 am
Category: General

Switzerland: En Route (30-31 Dec 2008)

Barbara drove us, with our two big suitcases, three backpacks, computer suitcase, and small/hand bag, to the bus station in Concord. We got there just in time to buy tickets and get on the bus that took us to Logan airport in Boston. Check-in went smoothly and our biggest suitcase was just... (More)

Posted by joyful on January 13, 2009, 5:35 pm
Category: General

Notes

I am now on vacation and so can spare a few minutes to type up the notes that have been hanging in my pocket for a while. I will apologize to my readers for making them wait so long, but I will not feel guilty. Blogging is something most mothers in the history of the world did not have on... (More)

Posted by joyful on December 24, 2008, 1:42 pm
Category: General, Jonathan, Noah, Faith

Eggs Presnor

This is the traditional Christmas breakfast in the Daley family. It is too good to only have once a year, and I often make it for potluck brunches. No one knows where the "Presnor" part comes from. The original recipe from Jon's mom has plain monterey jack cheese, but the pepper jack gives... (More)

Posted by joyful on December 22, 2008, 5:15 pm
Category: General

Nothing Guaranteed but Death and Taxes

And we just discovered that there is yet another Pittsburgh tax we didn't know about, and maybe even a couple different taxes we may or may not owe. I called Pittsburgh to cancel our estimated tax forms that they have continued to mail to us, even though we now live outside of Pittsburgh. ... (More)

Posted by jondaley on December 18, 2008, 11:33 am
Category: Reviews