According to Ellen, “it means we just go away and stop working because we’re too old to carry on with our jobs.” How sweet.
OK, to begin, yes, I know I have a blog. Yes, I know that there’s no point in HAVING said blog if I don’t write in it. And yes, I have something new for all the hoardes that read this…both of you. Two conversations last night at Katie’s big birthday dinner at the restaurant of…
Today, we’re doing something amazingly local and seriously goofy–the New Jersey Festival of Ballooning. Having never been to anything like this before, we decided to go on a friday evening with the hope that the kids will make it OK into the 6:30 balloon inflation and then the 6:45 balloon ascention. However, there are a…
There’s a new site that I quite liked the idea of, www.lastminute-auction.com where, basically, this search bot crawls over ebay looking for things that have less than an hour to go and are priced at less than a buck. That’s a neat idea for buyers–the sellers might not be so thrilled, however, as that means…
Right on schedule. Two weeks ago, I relisten to Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire. Excellent book. Then I jump into a relisten of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. Also really good. Now I’m all ready for the new book, Harry Potter and the Half Blood Prince. Ah, yes, I’ll download…
Today is July 4th and the obvious thing to do would be take the kids to see fireworks, right? Well…perhaps if Katie was a bit older, then fireworks starting at 9:30 would be OK, but still at 4 it’s just too late for her. She might not even like them because of the noise. So,…
Katie came to me this afternoon and asked “How do you spell “peas”?” I asked, “well, how do you think you spell it?” She said, “um… P O O 8”. Yes, that’s an EIGHT. How do you explain that there are no numbers in the spelling of a word? What could I do, I nodded…
This past Memorial Day weekend, we had our garage sale. It was a mammoth 3-day event reminscent of a tent sale, but did fairly well. We got rid of a gool deal of useless crap and put it in the hands of others for whom it will not (yet) be considered useless crap. However, one…
So I’m at Ellen’s T-Ball game, as previously commented upon a sometimes amusing, usually painful experience. But this time, I brought my laptop. And my treo. And I’m posting this from the laptop, via the treo (connected with bluetooth), connected celularly to the ‘net. It’s not fast (about 40kbps). It’s not sexy. But it’s really…
Tonight, Kim and I decided we’d settle down early to watch the Lemony Snicket movie on DVD. About 8:45 we finished dinner, kids were long in bed, and we flipped the movie. Then the fun began. 9:15, Ellen comes down. “I have a headache.” Turns out she really did feel awful, and Kim went up…