Tonight, after Katie finished dinner, she disappears upstairs to go shower, and Ellen, Kim and I are all still finishing up. All of a sudden, Katie reappears crying loudly, for no apparent reason. Through her sobs, I discern that she’s upset because our neighbors, 3 very sweet kids that Katie and Ellen play with (and…
Today, and about time, we pried Katie’s training wheels off of her little Schwinn bike and set her zooming along. Enough of the telltale rattle of her training wheels–she is ready for the open road. With me running along beside her (well, waddling along at speed), she leapfrogged well ahead of the pace that Ellen…
Yesterday Verizon came to install FIOS in our house. We were paying a ton of money to Speakeasy for DSL (who I still like, and who has good support, but who is kind of expensive), Comcast for both a backup cable modem and digital cable, and Verizon for phone service. We bought the “triple play”…
For whatever reason (and believe me, I asked), Ellen decided that she needed to write her Last Will & Testiment for the world to know. Below is the uncorrected version: My Will I leave my computer to Katie. I leave my Nintendo DS to Katie. I leave my computer parts to Dad. I leave all…
Katie was in Columbus visiting Rachel when, apparently, she and they went to a book festival. Amongst the activities was one were the kids made their own bookmarks. Katie made four of them, decorating them, and writing her own slogans. The spelling, below, is unedited: 1, I love to read! 2, Life is what maters…
For the last 2 weeks, my body has been beaten up by this damned bug, but yesterday I started feeling better and today I was about 75%. However, just as I’m coming out of this fog, it’s amazing how much work I’ve been thrust into. First, I have this monster calendar/contact solution in Filemaker to…
It’s been so long since i’ve updated this blog that I’ve almost forgotten how. Today’s story centers around the tinyest of living creatures–the lowly bacterium. This one has a name, though–Chlamydia pneumoniae, a very small, very mean, very hardy little bug. Now, normally, this would be OK. The bug goes his way, I go mine,…
Rumors abound about Apple coming out with a new iPhone type device. Here’s my suggestion for our friends in Cupertino: Come out with a combination phone/iPod shuffle–A phone that clips onto your shirt and randomly dials anyone in the address book. They could spin it saying it’s more fun and will lead to chance encounters,…
This actually happened about a week ago, but I’ve had the blog-malaise and haven’t done much reporting here (as I’m sure is obvious). Travelled up to Hartford to visit/help out Greg’s parents, Eleanor and Dale Blake. Two nicer people, I’ve never met. Of course, when Greg was around, most of the things I heard about…
Today would have been my friend Greg’s 38th birthday. As you might remember, Greg passed away from complications with his lung transplant on June 5th, 2006. In rememberance of my friend, I’ve made a donation to the research fund for IPF, the disease that killed him. If anyone wants to follow suit, you can donate…