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Taxes

Whew... For some reason, taxes took longer than they have in other years.  Part of the time was spent trying to get out of a...

Forks, Thinking of Talking, Dictionary, How God Makes...

Noah likes to help set the table.  When I ask him to put forks at the places, he will run to the drawer and grab a fistfull, then...

Where Does The Time Go?

Some people have asked where my time is spent, now that I am working from home.  I don't keep track of non-computer time, but I...

One For All Universal Remote

One of my customers gave me an Amazon gift certificate for Christmas, and so I bought a geeky toy for myself ( One for All URC 8910...

Dictated Story by Jonathan

Growl.  Arg, we're going to eat you up! Dogs, Aloo-ki!  We're going to eat you up. Growl. Growl.  Stomp....

Perl Debugging

Our photo album wouldn't publish on this last update, and it took quite a while to figure out what the problem was.Originally, the...

Subtraction, Reading, Memorization

Last night Jonathan was helping me set the table for dinner.  He said we should get five plates, but I said no, Noah has his tray...

EETimes Subscription and Advertisers

I assume that the EETimes is paid by their advertisers based on how many active readers they have in certain categories, etc. ...

Christmas/Vacation/Home Again

Can I condense three weeks of activities into one post?  We'll see how it turns out.  One thing we discovered at...

VPNC / Resolvconf / Set search string

I found what I would call a bug in resolvconf today, though probably most people don't run a VPN server like I wanted to, so no one...

Random Stuff

Just when I thought I was a geek, the bar is raised... I forgot to post this a while ago: Tim Hawkins and the...

More Spam Counting

Someone on the postgrey list (Matthew, who apparently likes drinking coffee, as that is part of his email address) sent a script that...

Christmas Present from Verizon

For some reason, Verizon thought it would be a good idea to reconfigure their network early morning Christmas Eve (or late the night...

Noah's New Word

Noah has added a fourth word to his consistent spoken vocabulary: "Uh-oh!"  Sometimes it sounds like "uh-uh"...

Jonathan In A Day

Yesterday, Jonathan did and said several things of note.  He counted to 100 all by himself!  (He still has to think...

Smile For The Camera

I somehow missed when Street View (and for that matter - Terrain ) showed up on Google Maps.  I am not sure when that...

Walking Adventure: 3 vegetables: 2 guys: 2 miles: 1...

I felt like going for a walk today, so Jonathan and I headed out, and I let Jonathan decide where we would go at each turn .  We...

Noah Chipped A Tooth

I was washing my hands at the bathroom sink, and Noah came excitedly running up with a toy boat.  But in his excitement, he smashed...

Krypto Solver Usage

I have been looking through my web access logs trying to track down a pesky LifeType bug.  And I came across someone who had used...

Fun with Spam

I have been getting a bunch of spam through my contact form over the last couple of days, so I thought I would check out what they are...

Spelling, Counting, Play and More

11/28 - Sanda has been teaching us Romanian, and one day Jonathan was asking what various random words were.  We thought he said,...

Do Not Call Lists

We have been getting more and more sales calls lately.  I try to take the time to report them to the do not call lists, both for...

I'm Sorry, Your Product is Obsolete

This is what the HP technical support person said to me when I called about our printer.  Our faithful HP LaserJet 6L, which was...

30 Day Organizational Challenge Finish Line

Here is my original post to enter the contest, here is my update .   Our computer room/guest room is now functional and...

November in a Nutshell

This month has been full, busy, and blog-sparse.  Because we're actually living life instead of blogging about it!  But here...

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