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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

New Printer: HP LaserJet 1006. Installed on Linux CUPS...

Our printer finally died.  Or actually, it didn't really die, but required more money, so I decided (somewhat hesitantly, since...

New Spam

I had gotten some rather blank emails in my spam folder recently (and some not in the spam folder), so I thought I'd check into it...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Faith, 6 months

We skipped the four month appointment because we were in Switzerland, but six months came quickly enough.  At 27.5" long and...

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...

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",...

Stuff in the Couch

We are missing a movie, and so went looking around the house for it (the boys had all the movies out the other day, lining them up to...

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...

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...

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