The past week or so has been an eventful one. The Friday before last I went down to Seattle to work. Ironically all but one of my team ended up absent or working from home, so little in the way of team bonding actually occurred. The one person who did show up had some nice teas for me that she'd brought back from Thailand. Fun ( Read more... )

Two days after disassembling, fixing, and reassembling all the piping under our kitchen sink it still wasn't leaking. I felt rather proud about my amateur plumbing skills ( Read more... )

After the last two wonderful weekends I've had, things had to balance out in some fashion ( Read more... )

This weekend was what my wife dubbed "The Laze-a-thon Weekend." A few weeks ago we'd invited DB and AD, our local chosen family, to bring tents, camp out, drink tea, work on crafts, and do absolutely nothing but what one needed to in order to unwind. Over time the invitation was extended to some other local friends. And then to one of those ( Read more... )

The weekend before last VL and her kids made the long drive up to our house to spend the weekend. I'd only seen her once since the change in our relationship to a platonic one, and much longer than that since her kids and mine had been together ( Read more... )

I'm going to write a long-overdue entry here in the next few days detailed the very eventful driving vacation trip to Colorado and Yellowstone. Meeting my relatives for the first time in my adult life was eye-opening and of course many interesting little tidbits happened during the 3525 mile drive ( Read more... )

Yesterday was yet another uber-long, high-stress workday (although I took an hour lunch to visit my kids' school for Field Day and eat with my son) and by 10:00 I had developed a near-migraine. My wife had gone out for the evening for another Tupperware-style party with friends much earlier in the evening. Unable to think straight in the pain I ( Read more... )

I've found it hard to find the incentive to write an LJ entry lately. The days blur together with their similarity and it seems a bit inane to write numerous posts that repeat the same information. It's worth reminding myself of where I am every now and then, so here goes ( Read more... )

I'm feeling very satisfied at the moment. The promised change in weather skipped on in last night, and although I'm a big fan of Spring rains and windstorms in general it would have made for miserable weather in which to build a retaining wall. Fortunately L and I managed to complete the last touches on the garden retaining wall (my Mothers Day ( Read more... )

I'm marveling at the cruelty of third graders. And third-grade teachers ( Read more... )