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Virus Joke

PAUL REVERE VIRUS: This revolutionary virus does not horse around. It warns you of impending hard disk attack: Once, if by LAN; twice...

Updated Pictures

We are in the process of moving to a new filename format for our pictures, simpy using the timestamp from the camera, rather than...

Noah 3, Faith 1, Pocket Notes, No Boys In Diapers

Noah's three year appointment was at the beginning of the month.  He is 42.5 lbs and 41" tall.  They did the hearing...

New Kind of Scam: Works Well In a Down Economy

I got an email last night from someone who was looking up contact information for one of my customers: Piexx Company . She was...

Wissmann Family - October 6th

I just learned about the Wissmann family , and that they are coming to Pittsburgh, to Ascension Lutheran Church on Peebles Road (near...

Notes From The Pocket

8/7 - Faith started using the more sign consistently and spontaneously.  She will now also use it to mean "I want...

Lots Happening

7/5 - (oh, yes, this means I have not posted in at least a month...) Faith crawled upstairs all by herself (with Mom behind her all...

ThinkGeek Gift Certificate

Hello.  I often get ThinkGeek gift certificates (I expect they give $10 certificates to anyone who asks them).  And I just...

Obamacare

There are various reasons why I don't think Obama's healthcare (or any federal healthcare program) is a good idea, but today happened...

Birthday, Quotes, Misc

6/18 - Talking at the dinner table about what something tasted like.  Mommy: "My tongue said [it was yummy]." ...

A Rich Family

Heather remarked at dinner tonight (at the Olive Garden - thanks Wightmans, we've got 7 more dinners at this rate to celebrate our...

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...

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...

Faith Nine Months

Faith is 21.8 lb, 29" tall.  Those are both 90th percentile.  Everything checked out great, though he did do some extra...

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...

Dishwasher! and more

We now have a dishwasher in our kitchen, which Jon installed himself (running new electric, supply, and drain.) Yeah! There is...

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...

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...

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...

Facebook Outage

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

Reading, Counting, Pulling Up

5/4 - Jonathan read Hop On Pop to us.  It took two sessions because it is a pretty long book.  It was fun for me because I...

A Post About Noah

4/23 and following - Noah sings a little song, waving his arms around and concludes with, "Amen."  He then says,...

I Heard It From a Newspaper...

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...

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...

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...

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