So. I've been in Kansas now since March 10th. It feels like much longer than just over a month ( Read more... )

Today my son stabbed me in the hand with a pen. It was an accident. It hurt a lot and I wanted to yell. However we were in the middle of church and it seemed to me that yelling would be disruptive.

Its been a month since I rambled senselessly here. I shall change that now ( Read more... )

When I got married I weighed about 205 lbs. Now I weight 179 lbs. Yay me, right? Yes. Mostly ( Read more... )

The idea that it takes 10,000 hours of practice in order to become a world class expert in a particular skill has been popularized lately by Malcolm Gladwell. In his book he actually says that it is more than merely 10,000 hours of practice. It must be intense practice, daily practice and long practice to really fit the pattern he describes. ( Read more... )

With walking comes falling. With falling comes bumps and bruises. On occasion it also comes with bleeding. Cian bit his lip when he fell this evening. Not a terribly serious injury but it hurt. It also scared him and worried us until we could see that it was a pretty superficial injury in spite of having drawn blood ( Read more... )

Cian is 44 weeks now. 10 months for those not concerned with the week by week progression ( Read more... )

It has now been 4 weeks since my surgery. I was told that it could be as long as 6 weeks before I felt the full affect. So far I am underwhelmed ( Read more... )

Its a meme-joke.

Leave me a comment saying "Resistance is Futile."

* I'll respond by asking you five questions so I can satisfy my curiosity

* Update your journal with the answers to the questions

* Include this explanation in the post and offer to ask other people questions, if you want.

Now to Courtly's questions:

1) If you ( Read more... )

While watching the Duke Brannos training video Quicktongue posted a few days ago I recognized that some of the things he does are specific to the conventions of SCA fighting. As he is a duke it is obvious that his technique is quite effective. It did however get me to thinking about history ( Read more... )