Katie’s having a guitar lesson. Her teacher is saying “you need to practice this after I leave.” Katie: Can’t i do it after I go out and play? Teacher: No, you really should do it now. Katie: Come on… Me: Katie, stop whining. Katie: I’m not whining, I’m trying to find a loophole. Me (literally…
Katie and I are driving home tonight from Tae Kwan Do, when we pass the place near us that used to do a nice Dim Sum brunch. They’ve been closed more than a year now, so Katie was reminiscing. K: You know what I liked that they had? There was this one thing that had…
Seems like every year for the past few years, I’ve made Ellen a crazy birthday cake layered over this snowman mold we bought around 8 years ago. Going through my iPhoto, I was actually surprised to find that i’ve now made 8 varieties of snowman cakes. It’s odd that the only vaguely artistic mediums i…
Recently, I had to take a piece from Katie’s computer to fix a client’s machine that was down completely. When I got home, I had to explain to katie that it could be a week or so before her computer was working again. She said it was OK, and proceeded to use a laptop, and…
Ellen’s first report card for the new, big, scary 6th grade school. A picture is worth a thousand words.
I haven’t blogged about this yet, but thought it was about time. About 6 months ago, Tony and I decided to take the “macsupport.com” domain name he owned and form a new company, creatively titled “MacSupport.com”. He says it was my idea, although I don’t remember specifically. I’ll take credit if it’s offered because, even…
Welcome back, loyal readers, to this year’s Halloween edition of It Happened One Life. This year, we have a bit of a reversal. Usually, MY pumpkin is the most complex and the kids do simpler pumpkins. This year, with how busy we’ve all been, we literally didn’t decide on pumpkin patterns until yesterday, and we…
Ellen just told me that, for some reason, she brought up Schrödinger’s cat in “math enrichment” class today. Her teacher, Miss Corrino, had never heard of it so Ellen, fairly accurately, explained the experiment, and the point of it. So, my 11 year old is explaining quantum mechanics to her math teacher. Perfect. She’s so…
Imagine sitting in a theatre, watching your favorite movie again. Now, imagine that theatre is Radio City Music Hall, and there are 6000 other people, all HUGE fans of that movie sitting around you, clapping and cheering. Now imagine further that not only are you getting to watch your favorite movie at this incredible venue,…
Tonight marks the end of a long time era. My parents are moving away from the east coast, a place that has been their home for their entire lives (apart from when they were at school). Never before have they taken residence outside of the NYC area, and I know they’re nervous about what they’ll…